625 - Tackling Housing Injustice—and Improving Childhood Asthma
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Redlining and other discriminatory practices represent structural racism in housing. Efforts to counter the legacy of this injustice include voucher programs that help people move out of areas of poverty into "opportunity neighborhoods." Hopkins researcher Craig Pollack talks with Stephanie Desmon about evidence that these programs improve childhood asthma. They discuss opportunities to help people both through relocation and by improving conditions where they are. Read the study here:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2804846
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh. |
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| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:31.6 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Craig Pollock of Johns Hopkins about his recent publication linking |
| 0:38.7 | better housing conditions with better health, most notably asthma. The paper follows kids whose |
| 0:45.0 | families were giving housing vouchers as part of a Fair Housing Act settlement to address |
| 0:49.8 | discrimination and structural racism. Let's listen. |
| 0:57.0 | Craig Pollack, thanks so much for joining me. Thank you, a pleasure to be here. |
| 0:59.0 | So today I want to talk to you about this recent study that you did. |
| 1:04.0 | It was about poverty and asthma and a very unique opportunity to study the links. |
| 1:10.0 | So I'm wondering if you could sort of tell me |
| 1:12.3 | how this came about. Sure. For this study, we partnered with an organization called the Baltimore |
| 1:18.1 | Regional Housing Partnership, or BRHP. And the organization is a really interesting one. They were started |
| 1:24.0 | as a result of a fair housing lawsuit, which was brought against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. |
| 1:30.0 | And as part of the remedy for that lawsuit, they created these housing vouchers and assist them to help individuals who wanted to move from areas where there was a lot of poverty into lower poverty or what they called opportunity neighborhoods. |
| 1:43.7 | And so we were interested in what |
| 1:45.4 | happens to the health families and children as the families move with these vouchers and these |
| 1:51.0 | supports to help them address the obstacles that prevent them for moving in the past. And really, |
| 1:56.4 | we were interested in what happens to kids with asthma as their families get the chance to move. |
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