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...