Housing Policies And Its Effect On An Individual's Physical And Mental Health

Housing plays an important role in a person’s health and wellbeing. Access to open, green space and having good relationships with neighbours helps to boost mental health. Whilst, having a safe, dry and warm home to live in will benefit physical health (National Housing Federation, n.d.). According to the Royal College of Nursing (2012), there has been an enduring connection between poor health and bad housing.

One way D.C. can enhance the performance of Rapid Re-Housing programs and lower the rate of individuals/families returning back to homelessness is to emulate the model that NYC has been following for the past few years. A few years ago NYC launched the Home to Stay program (Bornstein, 2014). Home to Stay is a partnership between New York’s Department of Homeless Services and four other organizations committed to fighting homelessness (Bornstein, 2014). Home to Stay uses an evidence-based protocol known as Family Critical Time Intervention which is intended to motivate individuals and heads of families over nine months to take an advantage of support services, such as addiction and mental health counseling, conflict mediation, and improvement of job prospects (Bornstein, 2014). The program follows an extensive and rigorous screening procedure in order identify and select the most vulnerable and needy homeless individuals and families who must have access to the supportive services the program provides (Bornstein, 2014). Though Home to Stay does not target the homelessness population as a whole, program expansion is a future possibility. While there is no concrete data that measures the performance of Home to Stay, testimonies from individuals and families that participated in the program indicate that there is a promising future (Bornstein, 2014). Individuals and families that were previously homeless believe that Home to Stay is a

What is affordable housing? Well affordable housing is housing that is affordable for those who have little to no income. The researcher who chose this topic wanted to inform the readers of the positive outcomes that come out of affordable housing and how it could impact you. Furthermore, this subject also goes more in depth, so you could understand what’s going on in your community. While it may hurt the community, people should consider for all the positive outcomes of affordable housing such as education, health increases, it is good economically.

Affordable housing has become the paramount issue of cities and dense urban areas. San Francisco is the posterchild of an unaffordable city that regardless of immense investment from blue chip firms like Google, Facebook, and their ilk of startups evaluated at $1 billion or more, policymakers and elected officials must wrestle with the housing affordability crisis that is considered endogenous to swaths of homelessness and record statistics on crime. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has made affordable housing the centerpiece of his legislation and championed the cause as a social justice issue—neighborhoods must remain affordable to maintain diversity for all races, ethnicities, and low-income families. A small sample of 827 New Yorkers by the NY1-Baruch College City Poll found the main concern of respondents was affordable housing while crime, jobs, and homelessness were peripheral problems (Cuza, 2016). The public discourse on how to address housing across the United States has pointed to negative externalities that surround rent-regulation and homeownership. Conversely, for this essay I will present various cases in order to illustrate the housing crunch is influenced less by housing and land regulations, or antagonistic homeowners but is induced by global market forces.

In today 's society, we are fortunate enough to live in a very diverse and multicultural nation. Thus, one may not realize that there is a vast array of health issues that is associated with it. A variety of issues that could come with a multicultural society could include, but not limited to: health disparities, access to healthcare, getting equal and quality care, and cultural appropriation. Likewise, there are factors involved that prevents people of minority groups from gaining access to the health care they need like a language barrier or no health insurance. One of the major factors involved that prevents access to proper health care is the built environment in which one lives in. The built environment consists of settings that were designed, created, and maintained by human efforts. The environment one lives in determines what kind of toxins they are exposed, as well as access to resources such as food, parks, schools, and healthcare. Not to mention, where one lives indicates their predicted life expectancy, socioeconomic status, health disparities they are also exposed to. As such, one of the most controversial and debated issue of the built environment is the displacement of the occupying demographic of the area. This is also known as gentrification.

The average price for a single family home in the San Francisco Bay Area in the nine-county region was $775,000, according to the CoreLogic real estate information service. The information contains some striking data about the current market and its affordability issues. Year after year in family home sales shows a 4.4 percent increase as buyers look for more expensive homes, driving the prices up higher.

Promised a helping hand, security, and affordable living, residents of Chicago’s public housing soon found themselves in dilapidated, drug-infested, crime-filled, isolated centers of despair. During a time in which most American citizens could easily turn their eyes from the struggles of the poor, Sudhir Venkatesh’s Gang Leader for a Day took readers into the depths of the world in which the poor resided. Through Venkatesh’s work, readers are inadvertently introduced to broader sociological concepts such as, collective efficacy within communities, the concentration effect, recurring themes of morality, and the underlying power of race, class, and gender as it related to the crime that took place during Venkatesh’s ethnographic like research.

Safety and shelter, food and water- basic human needs to sustain life. Yet, these needs go increasingly unmet for large portions of the population, often starting with housing, from which a host of problems stems. Health and housing are ineradicably linked, as the stories told in CPR’s podcast Place and Privilege exemplify. The evidence is even closer than one might think- Sacramento, California has already begun to feel the impact of gentrification and it’s low-income residents, unable to “compete” for housing they already live in, are essentially pushed out of housing and pushed out of any positives gentrifying a neighborhood might create. Gentrification, which develops and invests in housing to suit middle-class tastes and create a sense

Affordable housing can get very complex, as Los Angeles offers several types of assistance for those in need. There is Affordable Housing which is provided for those who are working and are low-income., Senior citizen Housing, Rapid Re-housing, which provides temporary assistance such as hotel vouchers and/or payment of security deposit, and finally, Section 8 which provides affordable housing designated for people that receive public assistance. There are many prerequisites to complete before allowed to sign up and be considered a potential qualified participant. The following prerequisites are part of the process leading up to signing up for Section 8; apply at the Department of Public Social Services (DSPPS) office, complete the Temporary

There is always a need for permanent, supportive housing. One of the problems is that people don’t want it anywhere near them. In Humboldt, a nice lady is buying a building so there could be families housed in it. There are concerns about the type of people that would be in this building due to the stereotype that are put on the homeless. People in our community and our nation as a whole have this notion that the homeless population is drug dealers, drug users who are not clean while committing criminal activities. Nobody would want that near them. If I was part of the committee helping this nice lady gather community support I would have one clear strategy. The strategy would revolve around dispelling this belief. I would figure out who might

Throughout the past six years, two outbreaks of tuberculosis occurred within the homeless population in the city of Toronto. With intensive care management and contact follow-up partnership with City of Toronto Shelter, Support and housing Administration Division, shelter staff, TB clinics, the provincial public health laboratory and community partners, the Toronto Public Health (TBH) was able to effectively manage these outbreaks (Toronto Public Health, 2016). TBH created a program to help homeless shelters, and drop-in operators apply the correct protocols to essentially reduce TB transmission risk by enforcing environmental control measures (Toronto Public Health, 2016). Similarly, implementing Florence Nightingale’s theories, found in the novel Notes on Nursing, developed an imperative understanding that the patients’ wellbeing is dependent on their surrounding environment. City of Toronto TB program for the under-housed, homeless and correctional population with tuberculosis, is based on Florence Nightingale’s theories of providing ventilation and warming, maintain cleanliness of rooms and walls, and ensuring observation of the sick.

My targeted elected official was Councilmember of the 14th District “José Huizar” (“City Proposes $1.2 billion Bond to House the Homeless”, n.d.). He is the person I chose because of his involvement with Proposition HHH. He is one of the Chief Architects in putting this measure on the ballot. He is also the co–chair of the Homelessness and Poverty Committee during the development and adoption of the Comprehensive Homeless Strategy (“City Proposes $1.2 billion Bond to House the Homeless”, n.d.). This strategy was adopted by the city in February 2016. It identified the need to create about 10,000 supportive units (“City Proposes $1.2 billion Bond to House the Homeless”, n.d.). This proposition is an essential component to the Comprehensive Homeless Strategy because it is the main funding source to build supportive housing units.

Those who rent from private landlords do not only tend to, on average, pay almost double the rent of a person living within social housing but also are twice as likely to live in a residence the Government would class as a “non-decent home”, a residence in disrepair and one that does not meet health and safety standards (Jonathan Owen, 2014). The undisputable growth of private renting sector is not limited to England but is also noticeable in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In wales the private rental sector represents 14% of total housing, the private rental sector in Scotland has doubled over the last ten years as more than three hundred thousand properties have been sold and in Northern Ireland private landlords own more properties than councils and housing associations combined according to national figures provided in 214 (Jonathan Owen, 2014).

Throughout the past 60 years, Hong Kong’s city planning were tightly dependent on the growth of public housing complexes, and vice versa. Years after the first public housing estate, Shek Kip Mei estate was built, the government has studied and discovered that core districts, Kowloon and the northern part of Hong Kong Island, have been rapidly populated that they are reaching their maximum capacity due to the wave of baby boom and illegal immigrants from Mainland China who escape to Hong Kong for the Cultural Revolution happening in the north . In order to cope with the large numbers of newly arrived residents, the government has decided to develop satellite towns, now renamed as newly planned community and new towns, at the surrounding areas of the traditional core districts. (Hui and Lam, 2005). The source of land for these new towns is often reclaimed grounds. Influenced by the British who were still colonized Hong Kong, the government took a reference of British architect Sir Ebenezer Howard’s idea of the “garden city” in 1898, who suggests that these newly establish, city surrounding areas should plan to be self-contained communities surrounding by greenbelts that include areas of residence, industry and agriculture properties (March, 2004).

Housing cost and shortage are the significant problem in Hong Kong. In some housing environment, the living condition is unacceptable. Due to this reason, the wealth-gap becomes wider and wider. According to the 2014 Policy Address, less than 75 percent of private living area has a marketable area which more than half square metres. One of the citizen said he lived in Mong Kok, his revenue could not afford the rent. As a result, he never wishes to have two or more children (119). In this essay, it first determines the reasons what the housing problems in Hong Kong are, and how they can affect people’s living standard.