CityViews: New Leaders at HUD Must Recognize the Importance of Healthy Housing
“Affordable housing represents an essential platform and opportunity to address in our inner cities and rural areas the needs of populations with some of the greatest health risks. Low-income communities continue to face a disproportionately higher burden of chronic diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. The challenge, however, is that in many low-income and minority communities, it is difficult to find resources such as safe, walkable streets, well-maintained playgrounds and recreation spaces, or access to healthy food.”