Keene Danya E, Schlesinger Penelope, Carter Shannon, Kapetanovic Amila, Rosenberg Alana, Blankenship Kim M
Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Socius. 2022 Jan-Dec;8. doi: 10.1177/23780231221115283. Epub 2022 Aug 19.
The authors examine the experiences of informal housing providers, defined as those who provide housing and shelter to family, friends, and acquaintances in the context of a severe affordable rental housing crisis. Forty-five semistructured interviews were conducted with informal housing providers in and around New Haven, Connecticut, in 2021. The data describe the critical role informal housing providers play in addressing gaps in the housing safety net. Interviews also show the ways informal housing provision can strain already vulnerable households and threaten providers' own housing security, with implications for their health and well-being. As such, the data illustrate how widespread unmet housing needs can reverberate across networks and communities. Given the multiple ways structural racism has constrained housing access for nonwhite Americans, this burden of housing provision is also likely to be unequal, with implications for population health equity.
作者考察了非正规住房提供者的经历，这些提供者被定义为在严重的经济适用房租赁危机背景下，为家人、朋友和熟人提供住房和住所的人。2021年，对康涅狄格州纽黑文及其周边地区的非正规住房提供者进行了45次半结构化访谈。数据描述了非正规住房提供者在填补住房安全网缺口方面所发挥的关键作用。访谈还显示了提供非正规住房可能给本就脆弱的家庭带来压力，并威胁到提供者自身的住房安全，对他们的健康和福祉产生影响。因此，数据说明了未得到满足的住房需求是如何在网络和社区中产生反响的。鉴于结构性种族主义以多种方式限制了非裔美国人获得住房的机会，这种住房提供的负担也可能是不平等的，对人口健康公平产生影响。
