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204 Relationship Between Housing Stress and Mental Health Among US Adults, 2014-2018
Key Words
Health, Mental Health, Housing, Affordability, Economics
Short Description
The home environment, where an individual spends a significant amount of time and resources, has a tremendous impact on mental health (Evans, Wells, & Moch, 2003). For most Americans, expenditure on housing in the form of rent, mortgage and insurance is their largest share of expenditure. For instance, the 2019 Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) indicates that average American spends 33 percent of their monthly income on housing whereas 17 percent on transportation, 12 percent on food and 8 percent on healthcare. The large proportion of income devoted on housing-related expenditures directly or indirectly influences the household budget available for food, medication, health care and education. In this context, this study will explore the relationship between housing stress and serious psychological distress (SPD), a measure that screens the serious mental illness in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) survey respondents while controlling for socioeconomic status (SES).