Our fall quarter seminar series continues with PhD student Julie Howe presenting on November in Gould Hall 440 from 12:30-1:30pm. This is an in-person seminar.
Title:
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS: Comparing Housing Models and Mental Health with the Canadian Housing Survey
Abstract:
I posit that the paramount objective of research into housing and health is to understand not only what individual aspects of housing are detrimental to the health of residents and how, but also what aspects of housing support the health of its residents across all income levels. Healthy housing sustains physical, mental, and social health and well-being. This conceptualization of healthy housing applies to the housing’s physical characteristics as well as its social, economic, organizational, and operational characteristics, which make different models more or less permeable to housing stressors and stress moderators.
I will be taking a real estate informed approach of examining mental health at the level of the housing model, as opposed to the level of the housing unit or neighborhood. In this analysis, I am comparing the residents of the cooperative housing model, which requires collective governance and operation and comparing those residents to the private rental housing model residents, which is investor owned and operated.
This is research in progress, using the Canadian Housing Survey. Because Canada has over 100,000 cooperative housing units, this Survey gives us the opportunity for quantitative comparison and analysis of mental health, housing stressors, and moderators of stress, at the level of the housing model.
Bio:
Julie is a PhD Candidate in the Interdisciplinary Urban Design and Planning Program and teaches in the Runstad Department of Real Estate. Julie spent 25 years as an affordable housing developer. Her research interests include alternative housing models such as cooperatives and social housing, housing and mental health, alternative housing finance models, affordability, housing stressors, housing and social connection.