Intensive NYC housing remediation effort cut violations in half but did not yield immediate health improvements

New York City’s most aggressive housing quality enforcement programs reduced hazardous housing violations in targeted buildings but did not lead to measurable changes in short-run health care utilization, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The findings are published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

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