Rent as a toxic exposure: The Bronx and Manhattan
Median rent behaved like a toxic chemical, eliciting defined patterns of public health degradation. The mix of responses to median rent mimic public health responses to the heavy metal lead: some without and some with a threshold. Toxic chemicals are regulated. Rent should be also.
Authors
- Deborah Wallace
Institutions
- Bronx Community College (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Public Health in Practice
- Published
- 2025-10-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2025.100670
- Primary Topic
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00