Medicaid expansion covers more than 20M adults w/ low incomes, helping them become healthier & more financially secure. Expansion coverage has saved lives, improved access to care and health outcomes & protected people from medical debt. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
You may qualify for battery/generator rebate programs, shelter accommodations, and transportation services during Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events. Call 211 or text “PSPS” to 211-211 today to see if you qualify!
The US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) focuses on preventing & ending homelessness. Dissolving it (and devastating cuts to HUD, SAMHSA etc) will hamper efforts to address homelessness—as the these policies dramatically worsen an existing catastrophe.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
A top official in the Office of Public and Indian Housing "mapped out his focuses in a Thursday staff meeting (...) including evicting undocumented residents of public housing. He also talked about implementing term limits or work requirements for most residents..."
Disruptions to community health center payments can impact over 30 million patients according to the Nat’l Assoc of Community Health Centers including people receiving care from health care for the homeless clinics @nhchc.bsky.social, clinics in rural & farm communities, & public housing residents.
🚨Funding alert!🚨 HUD PD&R just announced $10M funding opportunity to support Minority Serving Institutions to research critical housing and community development topics, strengthen knowledge and build research capacity. Proposals due 4/9/25. Pls help spread the word! 1/5
www.hud.gov/press/press_...
This doc tracking rental price gouging in LA (posted by
@latenantsunion.bsky.social on X) has been up for less than five hours, and already 57 properties are on the list.
The rent gouging is unreal:
"Listed $9,995 on 1/7/2025 (!) and then increased to $14,500 on 1/11/2025"
bit.ly/price-gougin...
Here is an ongoing list of LA restaurants that are offering shelter, food, and support to first responders and evacuees:
bit.ly/LAaid
A staggering statistic: Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a *9 percent* increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The math of our housing crisis is brutally clear.
I have really missed having a forum like this! Happy to see some familiar faces and lots of people working on housing options for all.
I just joined. Thanks for this, Margot!
