HOUSING STRESSORS AND MENTAL-HEALTH AMONG MARGINALIZED URBAN POPULATIONS

The relationship between housing stressors and mental health is examin ed with respect to samples of two marginalised populations in urban Ne m Zealand: people with mental health problems (n = 203), and public ho using applicants in serious housing need (n = 279). Data are drawn fro m two cities, Auckland and Christchurch. Evaluations of their housing by respondents themselves and trained interviewers revealed that these groups mere significantly disadvantaged compared to the mean for urba n New Zealanders, as measured by a random sample (n = 100). Analysis u sing a scale of housing stressors and the General Health Questionnaire revealed the particularly marginalised positions of women and ethnic minority groups in the housing market.