Funders Together for Housing Justice is thrilled to announce Caring Collectively: How Health Funders Can Step into the Movement for Housing Justice to End Homelessness, a new publication that supports how health-focused foundations can contribute to housing justice in ways that are consistent with their existing priorities.
The resource represents the collective wisdom of Funders Together’s member network Health Funders for Housing Justice, which primarily comprises healthcare conversion foundations and health system community benefit programs, along with many others who understand housing as the most influential so-called social determinant of health.
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This resource:
- Articulates the relationship between poor health and homelessness;
- Displays a continuum of housing precarity as a visualization where health services and advocacy can and must intervene;
- Argues that “housing justice” represents a set of values that apply to every stage of the continuum of housing insecurity;
- Describes three distinct entry points for health funders to step into the homelessness/housing field; and,
- Profiles three Funders Together members whose experiences funding at the intersection of health and homelessness offer concrete recommendations: California Health Care Foundation, Cedars Sinai, and HealthSpark Foundation.
While created with a lens of health funders, Caring Collectively contains actionable information that applies to any foundation with funding priorities that intersect with housing.
The Housing Precarity Continuum and the Prevention Continuum in the resource are also available to download as an independent file for use in broader education around housing justice. You can download the images below.
Please share this resource broadly and send feedback and questions to Michael Durham, Director of Networks.
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