When everyone has a safe, stable place to call home, people are healthier and communities can thrive.
To intervene effectively, we must meet immediate needs, while also addressing underlying causes of housing insecurity and homelessness.
In this forum, participants learned about how health system leaders are joining with others to:
- leverage Medicaid to provide housing supports and services for people who are currently homeless;
- link people to services that can prevent homelessness, through legal assistance and other supports; and
- reduce housing insecurity by expanding access to affordable housing.
Our speakers
Senior Director of Policy, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
President & CEO, HealthBegins
Executive Director, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
President, Solutions Division, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
Agenda
| 10:00 a.m. | Welcome & opening remarks |
| 10:10 a.m. | Understanding Why Housing Matters for Health |
| 10:20 a.m. | Using Medicaid to Link Patients to Housing Services |
| 10:30 a.m. | Stable Housing, Healthy People: Connecting Patients to Legal Aid |
| 10:40 a.m. | Addressing Root Causes: Expanding Access to Affordable Housing |
| 10:50 | Discussion and Audience Q&A |
Event resources
Resources shared during the event included:
Speakers’ organizations
UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Medicaid and Housing
Medicaid’s Role in Housing by MACPAC
Overview of Opportunities Under Medicaid and CHIP to Address Social Determinants of Health, Letter from CMS
Policy Brief: Summary of State Actions on Medicaid and Housing Services by the Corporation of Supportive Housing
From Homelessness to Housing: Challenges and Opportunities of Housing Transitions by the National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Incorporating Lived Experience
Engaging People with Lived Experience Toolkit, Community Commons
Integrating Lived Experience into the Framework for and Equitable COVID-19 Homelessness Response, The Equitable COVID-19 Response Project (multiple partners)
Measuring Value
Capturing Value in Social Health: Lessons in Developing the Business Case for Social Health Integration in Primary Care by The Commonwealth Fund
Other Resources
Housing for Health, overview by Kaiser Permanente
Addressing Housing Affordability, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
The Way Home, documentary series by KTF and Bread and Butter Films
Denver Leads the Nation in Breaking the Homelessness-Jail Cycle by Enterprise Community Partners
Permanent Supportive Housing for Homeless People – Reframing the Debate, published in NEJM
Housing Affordability and Quality: A Community Driver of Health, a paper by APHA, Academy Health and Kaiser Permanente