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Defending Women and Families Against Policy Violence
The DC Housing Authority held its final listening session on Thursday, May 18 at the King-Greenleaf Recreation Center in Southwest. DC Council required the Stabilization and Reform Board to conduct listening sessions with public housing residents throughout the city as part of a December law reforming the agency's board. The event featured remarks from a panel of Southwest resident council presidents, followed by public testimonies from more than a dozen residents. With few exceptions, all of those who testified were Black women. Their experiences living in poor conditions are best understood as gender and racial policy violence against women and families. Through their tears and justified anger at times, the public health consequences of DCHA's longstanding dysfunction as the city's largest landlord and most notorious slumlord came into full view.
Far from Abstract: Housing Determinants of Health Explained
Housing determinants of health are part of a broad set of factors perpetuating health inequity within the Public Health (PH) Economy. These determinants are typically defined as a type of social determinant of health explained by the lack of affordable housing, housing insecurity, shortened residential tenure, and poor housing conditions. [1] However, this definition fails to capture system failures wherein PH economic agents are responsible for exacerbating these housing determinants. This article will focus on the role of government agencies.
Image: Photo from HUD’s audit of the DC Housing Authority
Creative Arts.
“Maybe, we the project”
University professor and poetess PS Perkins reminds us about the humanity and lived experiences of families who live in public housing communities. She read her poem, “When a House is Not a Home” at the PHL National Webinar and Conversation on Liberation Philosophy, Systems Thinking, and Social Determinants of Health.
Documentary on Gentrification Captures Community Voices
Prior to starting Public Health Liberation,, Christopher Williams began an unfinished documentary to capture community voices in this gentrifying neighborhood of Washington, DC.
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