Handouts & Suggested Reading
35th Annual Fair Housing Luncheon & Workshop Series, April 27, 2023
Dr. Andre Perry
- The Black Progress Index: Examining the Social Factors that affect wellbeing - Dr. Andre Perry slides
- How We Rise Blog: The pandemic showed why social and structural determinants of health matter. Now it’s time for policymakers to act.
- Brookings Report: Amid the pandemic, Black and Latino men have experienced the largest drop in life expectancy
- Grand Rapids Public Library and Kent District Library patrons: "Know Your Price" by Andre Perry is available on the Hoopla and Libby app as an audio and ebook.
Health & Housing
Handouts & Recommended Reading:
- Home is Where the Health Is: Housing and Health Inequities - Dr. Roshanak Mehdipanah slides
- Redlined yesterday, unhealthy today: The link between historic housing discrimination, poor health - featuring Dr. Roshanak Mehdipanah
- New Michigan Public Health-led initiative builds health equity through housing - Q&A with Dr. Mehdipanah
- Social Determinants of Health and Housing - Paul Haan and Maureen Kirkwood slides
- Achieving Equity in Lead Poisoning Prevention Policy Making - referenced by Paul Haan
- Health Justice Strategies to Eradicate Lead Poisoning: An Urgent Call to Action to Safeguard Future Generations - P. Haan
- Poor Quality Housing Is Tied to Children’s Emotional and Behavioral Problems - P. Haan
- Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Dr. Arline T. Geronimus
- How poverty and racism 'weather' the body, accelerating aging and disease - NPR article
Environment & Housing
Handouts & Recommended Reading:
- Housing, Heat & Habitat: Developing Strategies for Living in a Hotter World - Dr. Vivek Shandas slides
- How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering - NY Times article featuring Dr. Vivek Shandas
- How Unjust Policies Influence Who Experiences the Harms of Climate Change First - Dr. Shandas
- Community Collaboration on Climate Change (C4) Presentation, Pocket Forests, Video
- Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Survey
- Uplifting the marginalized: C4 brings community to the forefront - Rapid Growth Media
- Grand Rapids Public Library and Kent District Library patrons: "Together" by Vivek Murthy, MD is available on the Hoopla and Libby app as an audio and ebook.
Debby Goldberg
- A New Tool for Equity: HUD's Proposed New Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule - Debby Goldberg slides
- HUD Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) web resources
- HUD Fact Sheet and FAQ: Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking