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From Spectrum News 1:
About $100,000 is being put toward efforts to increase the availability of healthy food options in underserved areas of Milwaukee.
The City of Milwaukee announced Monday that seven for-profit and not-for-profit organizations supporting health food initiatives received this...
A new analysis from the Urban Institute discusses ongoing research into the effects of housing stability on mental health. The piece looks at numerous studies that investigate the cyclical nature of housing instability and mental health challenges.
For people with less-severe mental health...
From Spectrum News 1 Cleveland:
One in three Cleveland households is directly affected by that change.
Now, the city is partnering with the Greater Cleveland Food Bank and Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority to host produce pop-ups to support families and make up for that loss.
Tiffany...
From Axios Cleveland:
At Michael Zone Recreation Center on Cleveland's West Side on Monday, Mayor Bibb passed out boxes of produce to a line of vehicles snaking through the parking lot and onto West 65th Street.
Bibb was on hand for a "produce pop-up," one of three monthly food...
From HUD's Choice Neighborhoods Newsletter:
Through Choice Neighborhoods, the Housing Authority of the City and County of Denver (DHA) created a unique fresh foods market in a former food desert. Decatur Fresh Market opened in November 2021 on the ground floor of DHA’s first housing phase. In...
Protecting, expanding. and providing affordable housing has never been so important.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that housing instability and homelessness have disastrous effects on our national economic and public health. Public housing authorities (PHAs) are our nation’s most effective...
A new brief from HHS’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides strategies to engage with and build strong relationships with people experiencing homelessness, offer effective mental health and/or substance use disorder treatments, and improve retention in...
From the Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services' news bulletin:
In 2017, Home Forward began testing its Portland public housing buildings for radon to prepare for a major rehabilitation project. The agency discovered some buildings had elevated levels of radon, but guidance...
On November 3, 2022, the Stanford Social Innovation Review released a new article as part of their Collaboration for Housing Justice Series. “Housing and Health: Creating Solutions with Communities” provides findings from the Kresge Foundation from their 31 grantees who are working in the...
HUD has announced two Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) for addressing lead-based paint and other housing-related hazards. HUD is sourcing these funds from the Consolidated Appropriations Acts of 2021 and 2022, and the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020. This does not include...