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来源类型 | Research Report |
规范类型 | 报告 |
Strategic Housing Code Enforcement and Public Health | |
Christina Plerhoples Stacy; Joseph Schilling; Steve Barlow; Ruth Gourevitch; Brady Meixell; Stephanie Modert; Christina Crutchfield; Esther Sykes-Wood; Richard Urban | |
发表日期 | 2018-10-18 |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | Housing code enforcement—the local government process of administering and enforcing housing codes designed to ensure safe and habitable housing conditions—is one of the primary strategies for connecting and improving our housing and our health.But housing code enforcement is often structured to alleviate immediate safety concerns or easily visible problems rather than to address and improve |
摘要 | Housing code enforcement—the local government process of administering and enforcing housing codes designed to ensure safe and habitable housing conditions—is one of the primary strategies for connecting and improving our housing and our health. But housing code enforcement is often structured to alleviate immediate safety concerns or easily visible problems rather than to address and improve residents’ long-term health. Additionally, code enforcement agencies often work separately from public health organizations, making it difficult to work across sectors to solve interrelated problems. In this report, we examine how housing code enforcement in Memphis, Tennessee, could prioritize public health as a key outcome and better coordinate with public health agencies, community health nonprofits, and other health care institutions. We use both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis to explore how housing code enforcement works and how it might expand to address public health as a key outcome. We explore these potential health impacts in Memphis as a model that other communities can apply and adapt. What did we learn about city data and local code enforcement practices?
How can housing code enforcement influence health outcomes? Based on these findings, we recommend that the Memphis City Housing Code Enforcement Department prioritize service requests to focus on violations that have a higher likelihood of causing serious health problems, expand coverage to undercovered areas and violations, make the inspection process more proactive, and increase collaboration between city code, county environmental health, and other health, housing, and financing organizations. Memphis city and county code enforcement agencies could have a greater impact on resident health if they better incorporate public health perspectives, metrics, and strategies into their plans and actions and if they better coordinate with health care organizations and stakeholders. Many opportunities exist to better target and coordinate the city’s housing code enforcement function and county public health enforcement responsibilities in Memphis and beyond. |
主题 | Health and Health Policy ; Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros |
URL | https://www.urban.org/research/publication/strategic-housing-code-enforcement-and-public-health |
来源智库 | Urban Institute (United States) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/480373 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Christina Plerhoples Stacy,Joseph Schilling,Steve Barlow,et al. Strategic Housing Code Enforcement and Public Health. 2018. |
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