In Chicago, a Regional Funding Pool is Helping the Chronically Homeless Get Off the Street and Into a Permanent Home

Highlights:

• The Better Health Through Housing demonstration program in Chicago along with a new funding pool to expand the services can offer some guidance. Since November 2015, Better Health Through Housing has worked with four hospitals to house 1

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Count People Where They Are: Census Miscounts Undermine Essential Funding for Homelessness Prevention

Introduction and Summary:

In conducting the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau endeavors to fulfill a constitutional mandate to enumerate every person residing in the United States.1 The census is a large, vast, and complex operation undertaken

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Race, Geographic Disparities in Childhood Wellness Opportunity

Highlights:

• The notion that place can determine health is not a new one. A key premise in medicine’s recent focus on the social determinants of health is that zip code is a better indicator of health and wellness than genetic makeup.
• “In the past de

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Safe Streets in American Cities: How Complete Streets Laws are Creating Stronger Communities

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This report evaluates Complete Streets policies in the 40 largest cities in the United States and awards cities a medal based on the strength of their Complete Streets policy.

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Housing First Charlotte-Mecklenburg Research & Evaluation Project

Key Findings:

Housing First Charlotte-Mecklenburg (HFCM) is a multi-sector collaboration to end chronic homelessness by scaling housing first, and particularly the housing first permanent supportive housing model. Housing first programs prioritize ho

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9/25/2020 Neighborhood and Physical Environment Meeting Notes

Report out topics from this discussion included: 

• It’s critical that we focus on systemic and institutional racial and other inequities.
• It’s not just zip code. Zip code is just one of the issues involved.
• Address access to broadband.
• Address ground

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The Looming Housing Crisis and Child Protection Agencies

A few weeks ago, my client, a mother in a child protective case trying to regain custody of her children, informed my students she had lost her housing and was now homeless. Immediately, my students picked up the phone and called the one person taske

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Fighting For Equitable Transportation: Why It Matters

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Walking and bicycling are prevalent among low-income people and people of color – but street conditions are even more dangerous than the walking and bicycling conditions experienced by white, middle-class Americans. In addition, the health, ac

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Caring for patients with lived experience of homelessness

Main Message:

Family physicians can use simple and effective approaches to identify patients who are homeless or vulnerably housed; take initial steps to initiate access to housing, income assistance, case management, and treatment for substance use;

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The CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Order Is Unprecedented: What Does It Mean for Tenants and Landlords?

Overview:

Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street. It invites depression and illness, compels families to move into degrading housing in dangerous neighborhoods, uproots communities, and harms children. Eviction rev

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With a Federal Eviction Moratorium in Place, States Develop Additional Protections for Low-Income Renters

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an agency order temporarily halting residential evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 through the end of 2020. This unprecedented action, which includes no provisions a

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