San Francisco and Oakland, CA both face sustained housing crises and displacement of communities of color; neither are able to keep pace with the growing levels of housing instability [17,30]. Both cities have prioritized addressing housing affordability and homelessness, but have struggled to meet...
Many individuals with lower incomes may struggle to qualify for traditional loans due to stringent eligibility criteria. Low-income loans, however, often come with more flexible requirements, meaning people might be able to take out a loan where they otherwise would not be able to. This ...
Also, although the eligibility criteria included having had sex with a man in the past 12 months, five men (11%) indicated that they had not had sex with a male in that time period. Approximately half of the participants were bisexual, defined here as self-reporting sex with both male ...
we might expect the beneficial effects of living wages to be more limited than the increase in earnings, because rising earnings reduce eligibility for benefits or affect the amounts for which families are eligible from social programs such as Medicaid, S-CHIP, Food Stamps, housing assistance, an...
Increased use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and improper disposal after use pose a public health and an environmental justice (EJ) concern if use prevalence is disproportionately high among minorities and people of low socioeconomic stat
While methods are available to compensate for housing unit undercoverage [58], they will add to the cost of the study. Understanding these implications of prediction error allow us to better understand under what conditions the current model should be used in the field. Given the favorable ...