Assessing the Burden of Electrical, Elevator, Heat, Hot Water, and Water Service Interruptions in New York City Public Housing.

ABSTRACT: Reliable electricity, elevators, heat, hot water, and water are aspects of safe and accessible housing. Interruptions to these services represent a persistent challenge faced by public housing residents in the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA). We compiled outage data spanning 2020-2022 from NYCHA's online service interruptions portal and paired these data with demographic and meteorological sources to understand the burden of these outages. To ease dissemination of these data-a spatiotemporally granular outage dataset that could fill gaps surrounding urban outage health impacts-we provide a public dashboard for visualization and download of the service interruption data in an analysis-ready format. We demonstrated that (1) outages often exceeded health-relevant restoration windows (

SUBMITTER: Flores NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11461718 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature