Governor’s Health Equity Council pushes for land trusts, other housing strategies in its new report

Housing is mentioned nearly 50 times in the Governor’s Health Equity Council report of 2022.

Run by Chairwoman Gina Green-Harris and Vice Chairwoman Michelle Robinson, the council is tasked with identifying strategies to improve the state’s health disparities.

Council members identified housing as an integral social determinant of health and suggested multiple housing strategies, including increasing support to homeownership programs, encouraging the creation of more community land trusts and adding a housing benefit to Medicaid.

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