Health equity through housing: A blueprint for systematic legal action
The U.S. housing system has created a chronic affordability gap and persistently inequitable and unhealthy living conditions. Law plays an important role in shaping that system, and P4A researchers at the Center for Public Health Law Research at the Temple University Beasley School of Law published a report series examining gaps in data on the impacts of housing law and policies on health equity. Their sixth and final report suggests areas for research and action needed to produce healthier communities.
How “baby bonds” can help close the racial wealth gap
P4A national advisory committee member Darrick Hamilton was featured in the New York Times article, “America’s Retirement Race Gap, and Ideas for Closing It,” where he discusses creating “baby bonds” to provide every child with a government-funded trust account at birth. Children born into low-income households would receive continued contributions along with compound interest growth.
Darrick Hamilton also joined Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kilolo Kijakazi, Institute fellow at the Urban Institute, to discuss how the racial wealth gap has exacerbated the harms of the pandemic, how the pandemic may be widening the wealth gap, and how tools like baby bonds can help reduce racial inequities.
P4A researchers Nicholas Ziebarth and Catherine Maclean have secured funding from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to continue researching the interactions and interdependencies of paid family and medical leave in the United States. Read about their project here.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize (PDF) honors and elevates U.S. communities working to advance health, opportunity, and equity for all. Up to 10 winning communities will receive a $25,000 prize, communications funds to help share their stories, strategic guidance and training from communications professionals, national and local promotion, and opportunities to expand their networks. Applications are due October 15, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. (EDT).
Register to join the prize alumni webinar September 15 at 2:00 p.m. (EDT).
Explore the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s collection of resources and perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic here.
