Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: An environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103277

. 2024 Jul:88:103277.

doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103277. Epub 2024 May 22.

Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: An environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law

Saira Prasanth¹, Nire Oloyede², Xuezhixing Zhang³, Kai Chen⁴, Daniel Carrión⁵

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¹ Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States; Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States. Electronic address: saira.prasanth@yale.edu.
² Yale College, Yale University, 1 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, United States. Electronic address: nire.oloyede@yale.edu.
³ Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States. Electronic address: xuezhixing.zhang@yale.edu.
⁴ Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States. Electronic address: kai.chen@yale.edu.
⁵ Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States. Electronic address: daniel.carrion@yale.edu.

PMID: 38781859
PMCID: PMC11190844 (available on 2025-07-01)
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103277

Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: An environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law

Saira Prasanth et al. Health Place. 2024 Jul.

. 2024 Jul:88:103277.

doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103277. Epub 2024 May 22.

Authors

Saira Prasanth¹, Nire Oloyede², Xuezhixing Zhang³, Kai Chen⁴, Daniel Carrión⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States; Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States. Electronic address: saira.prasanth@yale.edu.
² Yale College, Yale University, 1 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, United States. Electronic address: nire.oloyede@yale.edu.
³ Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States. Electronic address: xuezhixing.zhang@yale.edu.
⁴ Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States. Electronic address: kai.chen@yale.edu.
⁵ Yale Center on Climate Change and Health, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06520, United States. Electronic address: daniel.carrion@yale.edu.

PMID: 38781859
PMCID: PMC11190844 (available on 2025-07-01)
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103277

Abstract

Residential segregation drives exposure and health inequities. We projected the mortality impacts among low-income residents of leveraging an existing 10% affordable housing target as a case study of desegregation policy. We simulated movement into newly allocated housing, quantified changes in six ambient environmental exposures, and used exposure-response functions to estimate deaths averted. Across 1000 simulations, in one year, we found on average 169 (95% CI: 84, 255) deaths averted from changes in greenness, 71 (49, 94) deaths averted from NO₂, 9 (4, 14) deaths averted from noise, 1 (1, 2) excess death from O₃, and 2 (1, 2) excess deaths from PM_2.5, with rates of deaths averted highest among non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White residents. Strengthening desegregation policy may advance environmental health equity.

Keywords: Exposure disparities; Health equity; Health impact assessment; Housing policy; Residential segregation; Simulation.

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Simulating desegregation through affordable housing development: an environmental health impact assessment of Connecticut zoning law.
Prasanth S, Oloyede N, Zhang X, Chen K, Carrión D. Prasanth S, et al. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Feb 14:2024.02.13.24302645. doi: 10.1101/2024.02.13.24302645. medRxiv. 2024. Update in: Health Place. 2024 Jul;88:103277. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103277 PMID: 38405953 Free PMC article. Updated. Preprint.

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[1] Alameda County Housing Development Capacity Building Program. (2019). The Affordable Housing Process. LISC. https://www.lisc.org/media/filer_public/c8/67/c8679790-7bda-484b-9810-9e...

[2] Alameda County Housing Development Capacity Building Program. (2019). The Affordable Housing Process. LISC. https://www.lisc.org/media/filer_public/c8/67/c8679790-7bda-484b-9810-9e...

[3] Anderson GB, Bell ML, & Peng RD (2013). Methods to calculate the heat index as an exposure metric in environmental health research. Environmental Health Perspectives, 121(10), 1111–1119. 10.1289/ehp.1206273 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] Anderson GB, Bell ML, & Peng RD (2013). Methods to calculate the heat index as an exposure metric in environmental health research. Environmental Health Perspectives, 121(10), 1111–1119. 10.1289/ehp.1206273 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Anderson KF, Lopez A, & Simburger D (2021). Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and the First Wave of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates: A Spatial Analysis of Four U.S. Cities. Sociological Perspectives, 64(5), 804–830. 10.1177/07311214211041967 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[6] Anderson KF, Lopez A, & Simburger D (2021). Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and the First Wave of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates: A Spatial Analysis of Four U.S. Cities. Sociological Perspectives, 64(5), 804–830. 10.1177/07311214211041967 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[7] [dataset] Anenberg Susan C. (2023). Nitrogen Dioxide Surface-Level Annual Average Concentrations (V1) [Data set], NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). 10.5067/J99FI2U38YRN - DOI

[8] [dataset] Anenberg Susan C. (2023). Nitrogen Dioxide Surface-Level Annual Average Concentrations (V1) [Data set], NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). 10.5067/J99FI2U38YRN - DOI

[9] Appel I, & Nickerson J (2016). Pockets of Poverty: The Long-Term Effects of Redlining (SSRN Scholarly Paper 2852856). 10.2139/ssrn.2852856 - DOI

[10] Appel I, & Nickerson J (2016). Pockets of Poverty: The Long-Term Effects of Redlining (SSRN Scholarly Paper 2852856). 10.2139/ssrn.2852856 - DOI

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