Patient Housing Resources

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Health Professionals Can Help Patients with Housing Needs. Here’s How.

Access to stable, affordable and well-maintained housing is recognized as one of the most influential contributors to good health. Couple this fact with a healthcare system that is shifting towards value-based payments, many healthcare providers strive to address patients’ needs relating to social factors—such as housing—that influence health.

NYAM’s new report “What Housing Resources Exist for My Patients? A Guide for NYC Healthcare Providers” equips health professionals with an easy-to-use guide to help address their patients’ housing-related issues. Whether patients are struggling with a lack of housing affordability, stability or quality, this guide walks health professionals through the steps required to approach the problem and provides detail on resources in NYC that can help.

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Please share this report with your colleagues and co-workers to maximize the impact that health professionals can have on improving health through housing.

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Want to know more about how housing affects health? Watch our DASH-NYC short video “Health Happens Outside the Doctor’s Office – Housing & Health,” an initiative of the New York City Population Health Improvement Program.

Related Work

“What do Social Determinants of Health Determine?”
A Journal of Urban Health article by NYAM’s President Judith Salerno and SVP of Strategy & Programs Kimber Bogard that tackles the importance of evolving our language as we pursue health equity.

“Housing and Health in New York City: Perspectives from Low-Income Communities”
A report from NYAM’s Center for Evaluation & Applied Research in collaboration with the New York City Health Department that details the impact of housing-related challenges on physical and mental health.