Abstract
This study aims to examine the differential effect of discrimination on stress between social-mix and independent public housing complexes. We analyzed the 2017 Seoul Public Housing Residents Panel Study data that were collected from public housing residents living in Seoul, Korea by running ordinal logit analyses. The empirical analysis shows that discrimination has a lower effect on stress in social-mix housing complexes than in independent public housing complexes. In addition, the moderating effect of community-based activities on the relationship between discrimination and stress was found in the independent public housing complex model.
Highlights
Social exclusion is a critical issue associated with public housing
Of a total sample of 5265, we excluded survey responses that were collected from public housing residents not living in a housing complex and used the 4574 responses that contain the responses from public housing residents living in a housing complex, since this study aims to compare the differential effect of discrimination on stress between social-mix housing complexes (1898) and independent public housing complexes (2676)
This finding suggests that the social-mix policy is successful in reducing the stress associated with discrimination against public housing residents and supports the second hypothesis that discrimination has a lower effect on stress in social-mix housing complexes than independent public housing complexes
Summary
Social exclusion is a critical issue associated with public housing. Large-scale public housing concentrates poverty and can be distinguished from market-rate housing. With this type of environment, people can readily have prejudice and discriminate against public housing, thereby leading public housing residents to experience social stigma and isolation. Additional problems of concentrated poverty include lack of role models and economic and educational resources, which makes escaping from poverty difficult and causes antisocial activities among public housing residents [1]. Due to the lack of residential land, public housing in Korea was built as high-rise buildings in large housing complexes and caused the problems of poverty concentration [2,3]
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