Abstract
The study purpose is to comprehensively measure landlord-related forced moves (inclusive of, but not restricted to, legal eviction), and to examine whether landlord-related forced moves is associated with HIV risk. Baseline survey data was collected between 2017 and 2018 among 360 low-income participants in New Haven, Connecticut. We used multivariable logistic regression analyses to examine associations between landlord-related forced moves and HIV sexual risk outcomes. Seventy seven out of three hundred and sixty participants reported a landlord-related forced move in the past 2 years, of whom 19% reported formal eviction, 56% reported informal eviction and 25% reported both. Landlord-related forced moves were associated with higher odds of unprotected sex (AOR 1.98), concurrent sex (AOR 1.94), selling sex for money or drugs (AOR 3.28), exchange of sex for a place to live (AOR 3.29), and an HIV sexual risk composite (ARR 1.46) (p < .05 for all). We found robust associations between landlord-related forced moves and HIV sexual risk. Findings suggest that the social and economic consequences of landlord-related forced moves may impact sexual vulnerability.
Highlights
More than 2 million low-income individuals and families in the United States are legally evicted from their housing every year [1], which has potentially devastating impacts on their health, well-being, and future housing stability [2]
Data for these analyses were collected as part of the Justice Housing and Health Study (JustHouHS), a longitudinal study that focuses on understanding the intersection of mass incarceration and housing vulnerabilities and their impact on HIV risk
We examined the prevalence of landlord-related forced moves and whether the disruption of a landlord-related forced move was associated with HIV sexual risk among a sample of low-income residents in New Haven, Connecticut
Summary
More than 2 million low-income individuals and families in the United States are legally evicted from their housing every year [1], which has potentially devastating impacts on their health, well-being, and future housing stability [2]. While there is a growing literature on the prevalence and health impacts of eviction [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14], most of these studies focus on the health impacts of legal eviction [8,9,10,11,12,13,14] This likely results in an underestimate of the prevalence of lowincome individuals who are forcibly removed from their housing each year. Evidence suggests that renters may be forced by landlords to move through less formal processes
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