Murder Suicide

Suicides Related to Foreclosure and Eviction Doubled During the Housing Crisis

Suicides in America continue to creep upward. Between 2003 and 2013, the rate of deaths caused by suicide climbed from just shy of 11 per 100,000 residents to 13.* Suicide rates rose for every age cohort in the U.S. over that time span. In 2013, more people between the ages of 25 and 74 died by their own hands than died in automobile crashes.

In 2010, just as the U.S. was beginning to climb out of the global financial crisis, suicide was the second-leading cause of death for adults aged 25 to 34 in the U.S., and the fourth-leading cause of death for adults aged 35 to 54. With the Great Recession behind us, public health officials are now trying to measure the toll of the housing crisis in terms of lost life and psychological distress.

A new study released this month in the American Journal of Public Health offers one answer to this complex question. The report finds that suicides spurred by severe housing stress—evictions and foreclosures—doubled between 2005 and 2010.

The study is the work of researchers from the Division of Violence Prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Led by Katherine A. Fowler, five researchers analyzed suicide findings from 16 states that participate in the National Violent Death Reporting System. The NVDRS is an epidemiological surveillance system that abstracts data from a variety of sources, including death certificates, law-enforcement agencies, coroners, medical examiners, forensic laboratories, and other vital-statistics providers.

“This study was the first to our knowledge to systematically examine suicides linked with eviction and foreclosure,” the report reads.

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