Movin’ on Up?

Posted by gail in Everything Else on November 2, 2006 at 10:25 pm


According to a study reported in Scientific American, that “de-luxe apartment in the sky” could be hazardous to your health:

Poor people die sooner when living in higher-income neighborhoods than in poorer ones, a new report concludes. Researchers analyzed 17 years’ worth of data on thousands of people from four mid-size northern California cities to determine the death rates among different socioeconomic groups residing in the same neighborhoods. Higher rents or property taxes and limited access to free services may explain the paradoxical outcome for poor people with better-off neighbors.



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