625 - Tackling Housing Injustice—and Improving Childhood Asthma
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Show Notes
Redlining and other discriminatory practices represent structural racism in housing. Efforts to counter the legacy of this injustice include voucher programs that help people move out of areas of poverty into "opportunity neighborhoods." Hopkins researcher Craig Pollack talks with Stephanie Desmon about evidence that these programs improve childhood asthma. They discuss opportunities to help people both through relocation and by improving conditions where they are. Read the study here:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2804846