Home Is Where the Harm Is: Inadequate Housing as a Public Health Crisis
Samiya A. Bashir
Samiya A. Bashir is the coeditor of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art. Bashir, a poet, writer, and editor, has contributed to books, magazines and on-line media including Ms., Curve, NiaOnline. com, Oxygen.com, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Black Issues Book Review, American Visions and Contemporary American Women Poets.
Chidren who live in insecure urban areas may not be any safer indoors. Asthma can be triggered by allergens in the indoor environment; lead poisoning can be caused by dust from old paint and dirt tracked into the house.
Harlem Children's Zone, Inc led a successful effort to convert this 159-unit apartment building in Harlem, on 118th Street, from New York City ownership to tenant ownership in October 2000.
