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DeShaun Craddock

Life expectancy in Brownsville, Brooklyn (above) is about 11 years shorter than in Tribeca or Murray Hill.

Amanda Reddy

Amanda Reddy is the Director of Strategy and Impact at the National Center for Healthy Housing.

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Building Justice: Genetic Code, ZIP Code and Housing Code All Affect Health and Equality

By Amanda Reddy and David Jacobs | October 3, 2016

Health outcomes–and things that depend on them like school performance–are shaped by housing quality. Housing quality is shaped by segregation. And segregation reflects policies that separated Americans by race.

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