PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kathryn M Leifheit
AU  - Gabriel L Schwartz
AU  - Craig Evan Pollack
AU  - Sabriya L Linton
TI  - Building health equity through housing policies: critical reflections and future directions for research
AID  - 10.1136/jech-2021-216439
DP  - 2022 Jun 14
TA  - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
PG  - jech-2021-216439
4099  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2022/06/14/jech-2021-216439.short
4100  - http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2022/06/14/jech-2021-216439.full
AB  - Housing may be at once the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Using examples from the USA, we argue that current levels of housing insecurity are the result of clear and inequitable policy choices, leading to the entrenchment of health inequities—particularly, across race and class. Solutions to housing insecurity must, therefore, be structural. The COVID-19 pandemic has opened a window of opportunity for these structural housing policy reforms. Through justice- and action-oriented research, health researchers can inform the development and implementation of housing policies that advance health equity. We offer a series of recommendations to better position our field to achieve this goal.No data are available.