EVENT DESCRIPTION
11:00am, Lynne Dearborn, The Role of Place in Health-Supporting Approaches to Affordable Housing Provision
A complicated historical relationship between health and place in the U.S. leads us to implicitly believe that, owing to their residential choices, low-income and minority individuals bear responsibility for their health outcomes. Through an examination of state-grouped case studies of housing produced through the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), this presentation illustrates ways that State Housing Finance Agencies respond to place-specific qualities when framing policies that prioritize health-associated concerns, despite an anti-regulatory climate in the U.S. and societal norms that favor austerity in the design and construction of affordable housing. Likewise, developers and designers of this housing respond to local interwoven social, cultural, and environmental conditions when they craft and construct LIHTC-supported affordable housing.
