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This is part of our Fast Facts series with Capital Impact Partners and West Health that highlights how coordinated services – from healthcare to housing – can create livable, age-friendly communities that support the economic, health, and social needs of older adults.
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Download the playbook, Partnerships for Health Equity and Opportunity: A Healthcare Playbook for Community Developers.
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This article appears in the Winter 2018 edition of Shelterforce magazine.
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In May, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) launched a new Integrated Physical Needs Assessment tool to provide affordable housing owners with a comprehensive protocol to assess the range of options available to upgrade their buildings. The tool will allow owners to take advantage of incentives and opportunities to make their properties as sustainable and safe as possible. A key component of the Integrated Physical Needs Assessment is a new health overlay, providing guidance on health-focused upgrades as well as operations and maintenance protocol.
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Communities are looking for ways to build more livable cities, promote healthy lifestyles, and create an environment where residents can achieve their potential. It’s a broad vision that most whole-heartedly endorse—but achieving it isn’t easy. To start, the social challenges facing communities of all sizes have no simple solutions. For issues as complex as chronic homelessness, or the many challenges that face youth aging out of foster care, or the need to update an outdated workforce training system to meet the demands of a rapidly changing economy, one policy initiative simply cannot address the many facets of the problem. Even when we do know clear steps or initiatives that could help improve outcomes, the systems through which we fund social services—both publicly and privately—typically aren’t set up to support agile decision-making, nor necessarily to encourage strong performance and accountability among existing funding streams.
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