The legacy of redlining in the effect of foreclosures on Detroit residents' self-rated health.

ABSTRACT: Historical practices, such as housing discrimination in Detroit, have been shown to have lasting impacts on communities. Perhaps the most explicit example is the practice of redlining in the 1930s, whereby lenders outlined financially undesirable neighborhoods, populated by minority families, on maps and prevented residents from moving to better resourced neighborhoods. Awareness of historical housing discrimination may improve research assessing the impacts of current neighborhood characteristics on health. Using the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study (DNHS), we assessed the association between two-year changes in home foreclosure rates following the 2007-2008 Great Recession, and residents' five-year self-rated health trajectories (2008-2013); and estimated the confounding bias introduced

SUBMITTER: McClure E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6345551 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature