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Community Health - Housing and Homelessness

Addressing housing affordability and health

  • April 25, 2022
  • Institute Staff
  • Community Health, Health Disparities, Issue Areas
  • 0 Comments

Safe, stable housing is essential to a person’s health. Kaiser Permanente recently increased our financial commitment to affordable housing and economic development, doubling the capital in our Thriving Communities fund.  This updated brief details how Kaiser Permanente is supporting efforts…

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Latin family holding the keys of their new house

A Journey Home: Transforming Care, Providing Support, Expanding Access

  • January 19, 2022
  • Community Health, Community Health - Housing and Homelessness, Health Coverage - Medicaid, Health Equity
In this Forum we learned what policies could improve our effectiveness at helping people get and stay stably housed, and how to improve the health of individuals and our communities.
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Children eating

Community Drivers of Health: Policy Paper Series

  • December 14, 2021
  • Institute Staff
  • Community Health, Health Disparities, Housing, Issue Areas, Publications
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Economic and social conditions influence health A new series of policy papers offers some of the most comprehensive analyses to date of key economic and social conditions that influence health – food, housing and transportation – and shares evidence-based policy…

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To reduce health inequities, clinics need lawyers on the team

  • October 20, 2021
  • Ellen Lawton, JD
  • Publications
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Social ills, such as substandard housing and food insecurity, fuel sicknesses that our health care system must then address. What we don't often consider—but should—is that many of these social and structural problems are also legal problems. As such, they may have legal solutions.  Health care workers (and health care budgets)…

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Housing for health Covid-19 response

  • May 20, 2021
  • Institute Staff
  • Community Health, Health Disparities, Housing, Issue Areas
  • 0 Comments

Supporting safe, stable housing during the Covid-19 pandemic. This brief details how Kaiser Permanente accelerated efforts to increase affordable housing, address homelessness, and advance health equity in the communities we serve during the Covid-19 pandemic. Download the brief.

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Homelessness prevention during COVID-19

  • September 4, 2020
  • Rebecca Flournoy, MPH
  • Community Health, Housing, Publications
  • 0 Comments

As the COVID-19 pandemic surges, many people across the country are facing serious financial challenges. The July 2020 U.S. unemployment rate is more than twice as high as a year ago. In addition, many who kept their jobs have seen…

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Latin family holding the keys of their new house

Sound the alarm: Our housing crisis is a health crisis

  • March 11, 2019
  • Bechara Choucair, MD
  • Publications
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A safe stable home is the foundation every person needs to thrive. How can we expect people to maintain or improve their health if their very basic needs aren’t being met? Unfortunately, affordable housing is becoming more difficult to find.…

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