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Good Housing is Good Health

WEBAffordable housing is a prescription for good health. “When low-income households spend more than half their income on housing, they have little if any money to spend on other …

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The Connection Between Housing and Health

WEBThe Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act, introduced by Senators Van Hollen (D-MD) and Young (R-IN), would create 500,000 ‘Opportunity Vouchers’ designed to …

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OSAH National Letter Launch

WEBACT NOW! 1 in 4 renters in America – 11.4 million households – have extremely low incomes and cannot afford the rent. Unaffordable housing drives struggling families …

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Health & Housing

WEBHealth care advocates ARE housing advocates. A quality affordable home is a prescription for good health. It has been linked to prevention of long-term health problems and …

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Safe, Stable, and Affordable Homes: Laying the Foundation for …

WEBc/o NLIHC: 1000 Vermont Avenue, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005 +1 (202) 662 1530 [email protected]

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Leading National Organizations in Housing, Health, Education, …

WEBWashington, DC – Today, leading national organizations from the housing, education, health, civil rights, anti-hunger, anti-poverty, and faith-based sectors …

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Children’s HealthWatch Releases New Policy Briefs on Eviction and

WEBOn September 23, Children’s HealthWatch, in partnership with the Opportunity Starts at Home campaign, released two new policy briefs that highlight research on the health, …

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A Stable, Affordable Home is a Prescription for Good Health

WEBAs a doctor, I know that a stable, affordable home is a prescription for good health. This was recently instilled by my work at the GROW Clinic at Boston Medical Center, which …

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Housing is Health in 2020, The Year of the Nurse

WEBThe World Health Organization declared 2020 as “The Year of the Nurse and Midwife” in honor of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern …

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Housing is health: A renewed call for federal housing …

WEB1 Title: Housing is health: A renewed call for federal housing investments in affordable housing for families with children Authors: Allison Bovell -Ammon, MDiv 1, …

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Racial Inequities in Housing

WEBResearch shows that living in a home with inadequate heating and cooling, dirty drinking water, pests, mold, lead, second-hand smoke and other known environmental hazards …

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Housing Affordability Challenges

WEBThe 2021 national Housing Wage is $24.90 per hour for a modest two-bedroom rental home, $17.65 higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. ( NLIHC, 2021) …

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HEALTH CARE ADVOCATES ARE HOUSING ADVOCATES

WEBOSAH_Health-Factsheet – 2 – 12/12/2018 CHILDREN • Behind on rent is associated with increased risk of fair/poor child health and hospitalizations compared to stably

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Criminal Justice Reform Demands Housing Reform: HUD’s New …

WEBIn the last fifteen years, criminal justice reform has become a major focus for policymakers in the United States. Reflecting the broad recognition that previous policy choices have …

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HEALTH IN HOUSING

WEBNovember 2015 PAGE 2 of 2 In the year after people moved into housing: Outpatient primary care utilization increased 20%.

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Why Affordable Housing Matters for Environmental Protection

WEBNRDC is proud to participate in the Opportunity Starts at Home Roundtable. We look forward to the opportunity to leverage our collective strength for the benefit of low …

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Anti-hunger advocates ARE housing advocates.

WEBhttp://www.opportunityhome.org/ “ Food insecure children living in subsidized housing were 52 percent less likely to be seriously underweight than food

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ANTI-HUNGER ADVOCATES ARE HOUSING ADVOCATES

WEB– 1 – ANTI-HUNGER ADVOCATES ARE HOUSING ADVOCATES “Families are borrowing from already-limited food budgets to keep a roof over their heads” Quoted from …

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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

WEBNAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans …

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Why Low-Income and Food-Insecure People are Vulnerable to …

WEBH > OBESITY O & HEALTH > WHY LM OW-INCOME AND FOOE D-INSECURE PEOPLE ARE VULNERABLE TO POOR NUTRITION AND OBESITY MENU Food-insecure and …

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