Housing stability and the residential context of the COVID-19 pandemic

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ABSTRACT

Housing and the residential context where individuals live will be critical to understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect populations across the socioeconomic spectrum, but particularly for racial and ethnic minority and low-income groups in the US.

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KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19
• housing
• segregation

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Antwan Jones

Antwan Jones is an Associate Professor with appointments in Sociology, Epidemiology and Africana Studies at The George Washington University. As a demography-trained urban sociologist, he is particularly concerned with socio-environmental processes that affect health and well-being during various stages of the life course. Engaged in national and international research, he examines how residential processes and neighborhood contexts are essential to the study of adult cardiovascular disease, child obesity, and disability among the elderly. The focus of his research is on the residential and neighborhood context in which individuals live to understand health disparities among marginalized populations.

Diana S. Grigsby-Toussaint

Diana Grigsby-Toussaint is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. As a social epidemiologist, her research seeks to capture complex processes in the food, social and built environments to facilitate a better understanding of their influence on health for vulnerable and racial/ethnic populations across various stages of human development. Her work is grounded primarily in theoretical approaches from epidemiology (documenting determinants and distribution of risk in populations), nutrition (processes by which individuals obtain and utilize food) and geography (the role of place in shaping health risk).