This health impact assessment examined a proposal to demolish more than 360 rent-controlled units and replace them with 1,400 market-rate condominiums and concluded that displacing residents could have serious adverse health effects, such as increasing food insecurity and hunger, mental health problems, and the risk of homelessness.
Anticipated Effects of Residential Displacement on Health: Results from Qualitative Research
Publisher: San Francisco Department of Public Health
Year: 2005