Dense public housing could be good for tenants

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New research shows that dense public housing actually might not be a bad thing for the tenants. The study found that as the proportion of public housing tenants in a local population increases, they are less likely to end up in hospital, and more likely to make use of mental health outpatient services. However the authors note that in most cases this was reversed for very high densities of public housing. The researchers say concerns around concentrated public housing has "underpinned policy for decades" in New Zealand, and their research suggests that the upper limit on public housing density might be higher than is often assumed.

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Funder: This project received support from a University of Otago Research Grant, the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (20476 UOOX2003) and the Health Research Council of New Zealand (20/683). The funders had no involvement in the study design, in the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, in the writing of the report, or in the decision to submit the paper for publication.

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