I conducted a research project on affordable housing scarcity and quality and the associated impacts on community health in Chinatown. The resulting research was developed into a poster and paper with an overriding theme: where we live matters.
A key component of the paper examined the importance of SRO (single room occupancy) hotels in providing low-income housing. “Here I have nothing” quotes one Chinatown SRO resident’s distress. Depicted below is an 11×17 poster I prepared of my initial research. I looked at DBI housing violations by year (covering hazards such as lead, sanitation, and mold, depicted right), as well as demographic trends across Chinatown and the greater city, such as language isolation, rent burden, and median household income. I also used STATA to conduct a statistical test of the CDC’s Asthma Call-Back Survey data from 2015 to look at the connections between environmental conditions and higher rates of asthma attack.
