Abstract Following the Great Depression and related home foreclosures, the federal
government established new agencies to facilitate access to affordable home mortgages …

Housing is a major pathway through which health disparities emerge and are sustained over
time. However, no existing unified conceptual model has comprehensively elucidated the …

Abstract African American/Black individuals have a disproportionate cancer burden,
including the highest mortality and the lowest survival of any racial/ethnic group for most …

Importance Health inequities exist for racial and ethnic minorities and persons with lower
educational attainment due to differential exposure to economic, social, structural, and …

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white
Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most …

Structural racism, which is embedded in past and present operations of the US housing
market, is a fundamental cause of racial health inequities. We conducted an ecologic study …

The increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of heat waves due to human-caused
climate change puts historically underserved populations in a heightened state of precarity …

Participatory Design (PD) is envisioned as an approach to democratizing innovation in the
design process by shifting the power dynamics between researcher and participant. Recent …

The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage
around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between …

The contemporary practice of homeownership in the United States was born out of
government programs adopted during the New Deal. The Home Owners Loan Corporation …