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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Publication

Oct 27, 2022

Dana Bourland for the Stanford Social Innovation Review

To solve the housing crisis, funders must take collective action to simultaneously solve the climate crisis and prioritize those who have had the least to do with creating either.

Understanding social reasons for poor health helps to fix inequality

News Article

May 13, 2019

Beverly Malone for The Hill

How do you fix health inequity in the United States? The education and health-care communities as well as policymakers must consider what are known as the social determinants of health as an integral part of solving this dilemma.

Finding New Avenues to Health (Departments and Systems)

Publication

Komal Sheth for All In: Data for Community Health

Houston children continue to be poisoned by lead even though childhood lead poisoning is considered the most preventable environmental disease among young children.

Information on environmental health services for kids can be hard for parents to find: APHA review

Report

Jan 1, 2019

Julia Haskins for The Nation's Health

Environmental health services, from asthma home visiting programs to lead testing, can help protect children from the dangerous environmental exposures they encounter every day.

Healthy Homes App

Interactive

Nov 5, 2018

HUD

Content for this app was developed specifically for middle schoolers and educates them on the principles of a healthy home in a preteen-friendly format. Navigation is simple and intuitive. Interactive features include the Train the Brain and the ability to save a list of items found in their home.

Public Housing Capital Needs Study Confirms Funding Levels Too Low to Address Long-Term Capital Need

Report

Jul 27, 2018

On June 24th, HUD released the 2010 Public Housing Capital Needs Study. In general, the study shows that since the last capital needs study in 1998, federal appropriations have been too low to make significant progress at reducing the backlog of capital needs.

Understanding the Links Between Physical Inspections of Affordable Housing and Health Policy

Policy Brief

Jul 19, 2018

This policy brief examines how the physical inspection process can promote healthy affordable housing. A review of housing quality issues linked to health and the role of physical inspections to improve health is provided.

New Community | Jul 10, 2018

CSH/CLPHA/UHC Aligning Housing & Healthcare Cohort

Connecting grantees of the CSH/CLPHA/UnitedHealthcare planning grant, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, that seeks to align public housing authorities (PHAs) and Medicare managed care organizations (MCOs) in three states -- Ohio, Texas, and Washington State -- at the system, program, and individual level.