TY - JOUR
T1 - Food insecurity and housing affordability among low-income families
T2 - Does housing assistance reduce food insecurity?
AU - Seo, Bo Kyong
AU - Park, Gum Ryeong
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements: Not applicable. Financial support: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. Conflict of interest: There are no conflicts of interest. Authorship: B.K.S.: developing conceptual framework, designing the study, writing up the manuscript. G.-R.P.: analysing data, writing up the results, advising on result interpretation. Ethics of human subject participation: The current study was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki and all procedures involving research study participants were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs. Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects.
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PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Objective: Given the competing needs for food and housing under the limited household income among poor families, there is lack of research on the associations between housing affordability and food insecurity. The current study examines how housing cost burden affects food insecurity of low-income families and whether decreased housing cost enhances food security. Design: Longitudinal data from the Korean Welfare Panel Study, of which the final sample for the analysis consisted of 31 304 household-level observations from 5466 households based on twelve waves (2007-2018). Setting: South Korea. Participants: Low-income households in the lowest 40 % of household income distribution. Results: 19·3 % had food insecurity, and housing cost burden was associated with food insecurity. While in-kind housing assistance and in-cash assistance from all sources were likely to reduce food insecurity partially through influencing housing cost burden, in-cash housing assistance was associated with higher likelihood of food insecurity. Conclusions: Housing cost burden potentially limits food access among poor families, and housing assistance, particularly public housing and sufficient in-cash assistance, is conducive to alleviating food insecurity.
AB - Objective: Given the competing needs for food and housing under the limited household income among poor families, there is lack of research on the associations between housing affordability and food insecurity. The current study examines how housing cost burden affects food insecurity of low-income families and whether decreased housing cost enhances food security. Design: Longitudinal data from the Korean Welfare Panel Study, of which the final sample for the analysis consisted of 31 304 household-level observations from 5466 households based on twelve waves (2007-2018). Setting: South Korea. Participants: Low-income households in the lowest 40 % of household income distribution. Results: 19·3 % had food insecurity, and housing cost burden was associated with food insecurity. While in-kind housing assistance and in-cash assistance from all sources were likely to reduce food insecurity partially through influencing housing cost burden, in-cash housing assistance was associated with higher likelihood of food insecurity. Conclusions: Housing cost burden potentially limits food access among poor families, and housing assistance, particularly public housing and sufficient in-cash assistance, is conducive to alleviating food insecurity.
KW - Food insecurity
KW - Housing affordability
KW - Housing assistance
KW - Low-income households
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102170456&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S1368980021001002
DO - 10.1017/S1368980021001002
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85102170456
SN - 1368-9800
VL - 24
SP - 4339
EP - 4345
JO - Public Health Nutrition
JF - Public Health Nutrition
IS - 13
ER -
