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The Positive Impacts of Affordable Housing on Health: A Research Summary
By Rebecca Cohen
The Center for Housing Policy recently reviewed the growing body of research on the various
ways in which the production, rehabilitation or other provisions of affordable housing may lead
to improved health outcomes. Based on this review, we identified nine promising hypotheses regarding the positive contribution
of affordable housing to health, which we have summarized in this publication.
