Health

As municipalities face post-pandemic fiscal shortages, there’s a longer-term danger lurking behind budget fights.

Four disability activists tell us what they needed to make their homes accessible, and how difficult it can be to find accessible housing.

During the pandemic, community development organizations had to work double-time to adapt to residents’ needs. For some, that work yielded important lessons about better helping their communities, permanently.

Traumatic events, and the ongoing traumas of vacancy and disinvestment, can be strongly associated with the places where they occurred. In Cleveland, several organizations are bringing new function and meaning to traumatized spaces.

As housing and building costs rise, nonprofit developers find themselves with strained resources as pandemic relief dries up and tenants need housing assistance more than ever.

Researchers found that older homeowners in St. Louis averaged $13,000 in unmet home repairs. Here’s how advocates can measure home repair need in their own cities, and why repairs make a difference.

Asset caps on SSI and other benefits keep people with disabilities from building up emergency savings and financial security—or buying a home.

Not everyone with intellectual and developmental disabilities needs to live in a highly structured group home. There are ways to make integrated, independent living work.

With homelessness on the rise, the U.S. shelter system is ill-equipped to accommodate disabled occupants.

The Missoula City-County Health Department is working to expand health equity through a full-time government position, five years after a health initiative brought new sidewalks to low-income neighborhoods.

Laying the groundwork for transportation equity can start with listening to disabled people’s experiences of infrastructure for non-drivers.

Providing temporary housing in tiny homes has helped a long-term care facility keep its doors open in the face of a growing housing crisis.