Featured Publication: Improving Housing Affordability and Stability to Advance Health Equity

Federal Policy Recommendation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

A series of policy briefs include evidence-based recommendations to help people through the immediate health and economic crises and longer-term recommendations to ensure a fair and just opportunity for health.

The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted the lives of everyone living in the United States and around the world, but the most severe health and economic impacts have been concentrated among people of color, those with low and middle incomes, and people who live in places that were already struggling financially before the economic downturn. The pandemic has exposed a stubborn, harsh truth about life in America: People’s ability to live a long and healthy life depends to a significant degree on the color of their skin, how much money they have, and where they live.

Everyone needs a safe, stable, and affordable home in a thriving neighborhood to have a fair and just opportunity for good health. However, millions of families in America—particularly families of color—are denied shelter, security, and access to opportunity. How do we: 1) keep people stably housed through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, and 2) build toward transformational change that guarantees housing as a human right and a public good that advances racial and economic equity?

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