Subsidized Housing and Children's Nutritional Status

Subsidized housing and children's nutritional status: data from a multisite surveillance study.

BACKGROUND A critical shortage of affordable housing for low-income families continues in the United States. Children in households that are food insecure are at high risk for adverse nutritional and health outcomes and thus may be more vulnerable to the economic pressures exerted by high housing costs. Only about one fourth of eligible families receive a federally financed housing subsidy. Few...

Spillovers and Subsidized Housing: The Impact of Subsidized Rental Housing on Neighborhoods

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Spatial Decision Support for Subsidized Housing Location and Residential Mobility

Chinese childrens’ diabetes status, trends and hardship

Diabetes mellitus is now fast emerging as one of the biggest health catastrophes the world has ever witnessed. It has huge global and societal implications, particularly in developing countries such as China and India [1]. China is now bring with it potential massive increase in type 1 diabetes (2-5% per annum increases in incidence in the world’s most populous countries) and childhood obesity ...

Cost savings associated with prohibiting smoking in U.S. subsidized housing.

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking in multiunit housing can lead to secondhand-smoke (SHS) exposure among nonsmokers, increased maintenance costs for units where smoking is permitted, and fire risks. During 2009-2010, approximately 7.1 million individuals lived in subsidized housing in the U.S., a large proportion of which were children, elderly, or disabled. PURPOSE This study calculated the annual ...