The New York Times features our housing work
Ever wonder what “housing first” or “permanent supportive housing” really looks like? What it takes? What it achieves? The lives and resources it saves?
This week, the The New York Times published the compelling work of reporter Jason DeParle and photographer Caroline Gutman on extremely successful housing tenancy Medicaid waivers (like Maryland’s Assistance in Community Integration Services (ACIS) program) and the risk to their continuation and expansion.
"In pushing deep Medicaid cuts through Congress this year, President Trump and his Republican allies did not just squeeze a program that pays doctors and hospitals to provide poor people health care.
Over the last decade, states have increasingly used Medicaid dollars for another critical effort: helping the homeless and other vulnerable groups find stable housing.
To glimpse that little-known work, consider the journey of Michelle Cates, a food safety trainer who lost her job and apartment after a brain disease triggered seizures and intensified her struggles with anxiety and depression..."
As President and CEO Kevin Lindamood says, "Housing IS health care — and, with the intensive supportive services the model requires, the single most effective way to prevent and end homelessness that I’ve ever seen in more than three decades of work at the intersections of health care, homelessness and housing."
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