Leveraging Housing Vouchers to Address Health Disparities

Changes in housing policy that better enable low-income families to live in low-poverty neighborhoods that promote health are critical in advancing the goals of the AHC model. Since the 1970s, housing policy has shifted away from building housing developments toward providing vouchers that help pay the costs of private rentals. According to this approach, the maximum amount of money that vouchers provide would correspond to neighborhood market levels, providing higher rent caps in more affluent areas and potentially increasing access to housing in a wider range of neighborhoods.