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How Can Localities Link Housing With Other Sectors?
Housing and neighborhood conditions shape outcomes across a variety of domains. The materials referenced in this section describe some of these connections and help to make the case for broadening the coalition of support for affordable housing to include individuals and organizations that care about health, education, equity, transportation, environmental sustainability, and other policies. Click on the briefs below to learn more.
Making the Case
- Why housing matters. This brief provides an overview of how investments in quality housing can enhance both local economic development and the health and well-being of individual residents and outlines steps that housing policymakers can take to further these broader objectives.
Housing Connections
- Housing and health. This brief provides an overview of the many ways that housing and neighborhood conditions shape health outcomes and impact spending on healthcare and lists steps that housing policymakers can take to improve them.
- Housing and education. This brief provides an overview of how investments in quality affordable housing can result in significant educational benefits for children and steps that housing policymakers can take to support educational achievement.
- Expanding access to public transit through housing. This brief introduces ways local jurisdictions can preserve and create affordable housing around existing and new or planned transit stations.
- Reducing energy use and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. This brief discusses ways that local jurisdictions can reduce residential energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.