Expanding Affordable Housing and Jobs Programs as Strategies for Addressing the Mental Health and Overdose Crises

• By: Eric Rosenbaum Project Renewal
• January 22nd, 2024
• adverse childhood experiences, affordable housing, discrimination, discriminatory housing practices, employment, homelessness, mental health crisis, overdose crisis, substance use disorders, urban renewal, vocational training, Winter 2024 Issue
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Our society is grappling with mental health and overdose crises. In the United States in 2021, 22.8% of adults experienced mental illness,1 and more than 106,000 Americans died from drug-involved overdose.2 As the leader of a New York City nonprofit provider of shelter, housing, health, and...

The Critical Solution for Homeless Older Adults: Tools for Aging in Place

• By: Susan Dan, LMSW Project Renewal Kristan McIntosh, LMSW Health Management Associates
• October 1st, 2017
• aging in place, behavioral health conditions, functional impairment, healthcare access, housing accessibility, institutionalization prevention, older homeless adults, supportive housing
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Older adults over the age of 50 who are homeless are oftentimes an overlooked subpopulation. Nicknamed the “invisible population” by many including the Corporation for Supportive Housing (Healthy Aging in Supportive Housing, 2016), their needs differ from the general population of homeless...