Can changing neighborhoods influence mental health? An ecological analysis of gentrification and neighborhood-level serious psychological distress-New York City, 2002-2015

Neighborhood conditions influence people's health; sustaining healthy neighborhoods is a New York City (NYC) Health Department priority. Gentrification is characterized by rapid development in historically disinvested neighborhoods. The gentrification burden, including increased living expenses...

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Published in:PloS one 2023-04, Vol.18 (4), p.e0283191-e0283191
Main Authors: Alroy, Karen A, Cavalier, Haleigh, Crossa, Aldo, Wang, Shu Meir, Liu, Sze Yan, Norman, Christina, Sanderson, Michael, Gould, L Hannah, Lim, Sung Woo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Affordable housing
Analysis
Biology and Life Sciences
Cities
Community
Community ecology
Development policy
Earth Sciences
Ecological balance
Ecological effects
Environmental aspects
Ethnicity
Gentrification
Health aspects
Health education
Health promotion
Health Status
Health surveys
Hispanic Americans
Home ownership
Humans
Low income groups
Medicine and Health Sciences
Mental disorders
Mental Health
Minority & ethnic groups
Neighborhoods
New York City
People and Places
Populations
Psychological aspects
Psychological stress
Race
Research and Analysis Methods
Residence Characteristics
Residential Segregation
Social aspects
Social networks
Social organization
Social Sciences
Surveys
Trends
Urban development
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Summary:Neighborhood conditions influence people's health; sustaining healthy neighborhoods is a New York City (NYC) Health Department priority. Gentrification is characterized by rapid development in historically disinvested neighborhoods. The gentrification burden, including increased living expenses, and disrupted social networks, disproportionally impacts certain residents. To ultimately target health promotion interventions, we examined serious psychological distress time trends in gentrifying NYC neighborhoods to describe the association of gentrification and mental health overall and stratified by race and ethnicity. We categorized NYC neighborhoods as hypergentrifying, gentrifying, and not-gentrifying using a modified New York University Furman Center index. Neighborhoods with ≥100% rent growth were hypergentrifying; neighborhoods with greater than median and
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0283191