Special Issue Introduction: Gentrification, Housing, and Health Outcomes

Abstract

Gentrification has been one of the most controversial and elusive concepts in the housing, community development, urban, and public health literatures in the last two decades (Brown-Saracino, 2017; Smith et al., 2020). Despite a voluminous literature, some pressing gentrification questions remain. What is it? What drives it? What are its effects, and what intervening factors mediate its impact on distinct community types and populations? In this special issue, we bring together a diverse set of authors and quantitative and qualitative papers focused on gentrification ’ s influence on various health outcomes.