The importance of housing to create health is increasingly proven.
Non-senior adults receiving federal housing assistance are more physically active than similar unassisted adults.
In San Bernardino, CA, Dignity Health is helping spark partnerships and accelerate public-private collaborations to ensure that all residents have access to the resources they need for a healthy life.
In Ashland, California, cross-sector partnerships between community development, public health, and city government are building community and reinvesting in housing.
Madeline White of America’s Essential Hospitals reports on the Build Healthy Places Network tour of The Villages of East Lake, a Purpose Built Communities site in Atlanta, Georgia.
What is the Low Income Housing Tax Credit and how can it be used to improve health?
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Community Development 2.0—Collective Impact Focuses a Neighborhood Strategy for Health
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In Detroit, an innovate partnership between a local hospital system and a nonprofit housing organization is anchoring revitalization through a new community development corporation.
What happens when a housing developer joins forces with health providers? Sectors come together for transformational community change.
Daniel Lau, the Network’s Engagement Manager and researcher at the Green Health Partnership, attended a community meeting for Balboa Upper Yards housing and offers his neighborhood health takeaways
The connection between health and community development is on everyone’s lips it seems, and for good reason. And yet the two sectors are really still at the beginning stages of learning how to work together.