Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: An environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Affordable housing policies can reduce deaths by improving environmental exposures. Desegregation efforts, by changing where people live, can significantly advance environmental health equity.
Area Of Science
- Environmental health
- Urban planning
- Health equity
Background
- Residential segregation is a key driver of health inequities.
- Existing affordable housing policies can be leveraged to study desegregation impacts.
Purpose Of The Study
- To project the mortality impacts of a 10% affordable housing target as a desegregation policy.
- To quantify changes in environmental exposures and estimate averted deaths.
Main Methods
- Simulated resident movement into newly allocated housing.
- Quantified changes in six ambient environmental exposures.
- Used exposure-response functions to estimate averted deaths.
Main Results
- An average of 169 deaths averted from improved greenness, 71 from reduced nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and 9 from decreased noise pollution annually.
- Projected excess deaths from ozone (O3) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
- Rates of averted deaths were highest among non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White residents.
Conclusions
- Strengthening desegregation policies through affordable housing initiatives can improve environmental health.
- These policies have the potential to advance environmental health equity.
- Targeted housing policies can mitigate health disparities driven by residential segregation.
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