Affordable housing through the low-income housing tax credit program and intimate partner violence-related homicide.

ABSTRACT: The most severe outcome of intimate partner violence (IPV) is IPV-related homicide. Access to affordable housing may both facilitate exit from abusive relationships and reduce financial stress in intimate relationships, potentially preventing IPV-related homicide. We examined the association of the availability of rental housing through the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, a federal program providing tax incentives to support the development of affordable housing, with IPV-related homicide and assessed whether this association differed by eviction rates at the state-level. We used 2005-2016 National Violent Death Reporting System, LIHTC Property, and Eviction Lab data for 13 states and compared the rate of IPV-related homicide in state-years with ≥30 to state-years with <30 L

SUBMITTER: Austin AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12862625 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature