A Critical Race Perspective on Housing and Health
Social, economic, and environmental factors account for the vast majority of health outcomes. And housing encompasses many of these factors.
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Read more: Obtaining a Hospital Bed in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Legal Perspective Obtaining a Hospital Bed in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Legal Perspective
A judge ruled recently that a patient, known as MB, who had occupied an NHS bed for over a year, must vacate it and instead receive care in the community.
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Read more: Inclusionary Zoning Laws offer Opportunity to Combat Low Income Residency Exclusion Inclusionary Zoning Laws offer Opportunity to Combat Low Income Residency Exclusion
By Lilo Blank Gentrification is highly contentious as it transforms neighborhoods from low to high value. A National Community Reinvestment Coalition study shows that gentrification and subsequent displacement has increased in urban areas within the last decade, with black and Hispanic residents among the most affected. Proponents of gentrifying neighborhoods point to the economic benefits for communities…
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Read more: Housing Law and Health Equity: No Bliss in Ignorance Housing Law and Health Equity: No Bliss in Ignorance
Much of the housing in the U.S. is expensive, unsafe, and inadequate in supply. A new article outlines 23 legal mechanisms, or levers, that may impact health equity in housing in the U.S.
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Read more: Housing Equity Week in Review Housing Equity Week in Review
Here’s the latest news from housing law and equity, for the week of November 6-10, 2017: The Public Health Institute released a study that calculates the number of children with lead poisoning in the United States. A new law in Seattle will prevent landlords from screening tenants based on their criminal history, via The Regulatory…
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An update from the world of housing law and equity, for the week of October 30-November 3, 2017 New viewpoint article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, from Megan Sandel, MD, MPH and Matthew Desmond, PhD, says investing in housing for health improves mission and margin. An analysis from the Seattle Times asks, “Will…
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The week of Sept. 4-11, 2017 brought more housing-related news from the southeast in the wake of Harvey and Irma, and a few new resources. The latest in housing equity and the law, below: Matthew Desmond writes a Housing State of the Union for the Stanford Center on Inequality and Poverty’s Pathways Magazine State of…
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Much of the devastation from Harvey is centered on homes and housing. Our focus this week is on the housing and equity issues related to displacement, and recovery and development in the future. The news from the world of housing after Harvey, for the week of August 28-September 5, 2017: Although tenants’ homes are under…
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Here’s the latest news in housing law and equity, for the week of August 15-21, 2017: The Urban Institute has released a new tool about using fair housing data. The report contains details on data sources related to demographics and segregation, housing, land use, disability, education, employment, environment, health, and public safety. The Washington Post…
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Here is our weekly round-up of developments from the world of housing law and health. For the week of August 7-14, 2017: HUD released its “Worst Case Housing Needs” report to Congress providing national data and analysis of the problems facing low-income renting families. CityLab offers a summary of the report here. Is California’s housing…