Bricks and Behavior: The Repair and Maintenance Costs of Housing for Persons with Mental Illness
研究了153处精神疾病患者独立生活住房的维修维护成本，发现楼内患者比例与成本呈倒U型关系，且便利设施在患者多的楼中成本更高。
Comprehensive data on 153 properties offering independent living for persons with mental illness are used to examine the effects on repair and maintenance (RM) costs of building quality, neighborhood quality, building size, proportion of tenants with mental illness, and management experience with mentally ill tenants. We find an inverted U‐shaped relationship between the proportion of mentally ill tenants in a building and its RM costs, which suggests favorable behavioral effects on mentally ill tenants of living in the same building with others who are mentally ill. We also find amenity features are associated with higher RM costs in properties where more tenants are mentally ill.