Does poor health influence residential selection? Understanding mobility among low-income housing voucher recipients in the Moving to Opportunity Study.

ABSTRACT: Housing mobility programs and housing choice vouchers provide low-income families with a potentially-transformative opportunity to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. However, families often face barriers to attaining upward residential mobility; poor health may be one important barrier, although few studies have examined this hypothesis. We used the experimental Moving to Opportunity (MTO) Study, constructed residential trajectories, and linked neighborhood opportunity measures to over 14,000 addresses of 3526 families across 7 years. We used latent growth curve longitudinal models to test how baseline health modified effects of MTO housing voucher treatment on neighborhood opportunity trajectories. Results show that poor baseline health adversely influenced how the voucher induced upward

SUBMITTER: Osypuk TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374104 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature