Safe and stable housing is necessary for people to become and stay healthy. States and the federal government have both invested in programs that help low-income and vulnerable populations find housing and access health care and supportive services. However, those programs often remain siloed with health and housing sectors often working independently toward similar goals. These resources highlight how policymakers are breaking down siloes to better deploy their states’ resources through an aligned health and housing agenda.
Tools
Health Equity
2021 State of the States: Amid the Pandemic, Governors Tackle Health, Social, and Economic Issues, March 2021. This map and chart highlight key themes in governors’ 2021 State of the State addresses, including their priorities regarding housing and homelessness.
Oregon’s Community Care Organization 2.0 Fosters Community Partnerships to Address Social Determinants of Health, February 2021. This fact sheet examines how Oregon has fostered partnerships between their Coordinated Care Organizations and community-based organizations, which has helped improve health equity in the state.
Infographic: Policy Levers to Address Health Equity by Reducing Lead Exposure, October 2020. This infographic highlights how lead exposure and poisoning is a health equity issue, and the role that state Medicaid agencies and other systems play in reducing exposure to improve health outcomes.
With a Federal Eviction Moratorium in Place, States Develop Additional Protections for Low-Income Renters, September 2020. This blog outlines the federal eviction moratorium and state actions to provide additional protections and financial assistance.
How States Address Social Determinants of Health in their Medicaid Contracts and Contract Guidance Documents, August 2018. This chart includes references to social determinants of health, including housing, in 11 states’ Medicaid managed care contracts. The chart also identifies how states pay and monitor activities to address social determinants of health through Medicaid managed care.
Building An Equitable Health Care Delivery System: Considerations For State And Federal Policymakers, March 2015. This brief reflects a discussion by state and federal leaders to reduce health disparities by aligning payment models, creating partnerships, and building data systems.
Homelessness
Strengthening Health and Housing Partnerships through Medicaid to Improve Health Care for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness, July 2017. This brief explores how states have leveraged a range of federal authorities and care models to increase access to housing-related services.
State Health and Housing Programs in the Proposed FY 2018 Federal Budget: Six Housing Programs to Watch, June 2017. This blog post highlights some large federal housing programs and notes how the proposed federal budget for FY2018 could impact them.
Braiding Funds to House Complex Medicaid Beneficiaries: Key Policy Lessons from Louisiana, May 2017. This brief profiles Louisiana’s permanent supportive housing program, which is administered jointly by the state’s Medicaid agency and housing authority.
Federal and State Collaboration to Improve Health through Housing, January 2017. This brief shares concrete policy recommendations from a meeting of state and federal health and housing policymakers in December 2016.
State Strategies to Improve Health through Housing Services, March 2016. This chart compiles state strategies to support health through housing services.
State Strategies for Integrating Health Care and Housing for Homeless Individuals and Families, September 2015. Featuring presentations from Oregon, Texas, and CSH, this webinar addressed the financing mechanisms, data infrastructure and strategic partnerships that facilitate the blending of health care and housing funding streams.
Reasonable Accommodations Resources, October 2018. These resources provide guidance about accommodations and modifications that must be made in housing for persons with disabilities and their family members.
Financing
Housing-Related Service Definitions in 1915(i) State Plan Amendments, 1915(c) Waivers, and Section 1115 Demonstrations, March 2019. This chart compiles information on housing-related services and provides the full text of service definitions in approved housing Medicaid waivers and state plan amendments.
Tenancy Supports in Two States’ Medicaid Waivers, Updated July 2019. This chart compiles information about two NASHP Health & Housing Institute states’ approved housing Medicaid waivers.
State Housing and Services Options in 1915(c) Waivers for People with Developmental Disabilities, December 2018. This chart describes four states’ 1915(c) waivers, the populations they serve, and the housing-related services covered.
State Health and Housing Programs in the Proposed FY 2018 Federal Budget: Six Housing Programs to Watch, June 2017. This blog post highlights some large federal housing programs and notes how the proposed federal budget for FY2018 could impact them.
Braiding Funds to House Complex Medicaid Beneficiaries: Key Policy Lessons from Louisiana, May 2017. This brief profiles Louisiana’s permanent supportive housing program, which is administered jointly by the state’s Medicaid agency and housing authority.
Improving Health through Housing: Three Tips For State Policymakers, February 2017. This blog post shares three practical tips for state policymakers interested in improving health through housing.
How Federal Housing Policy Developments Could Affect State Health and Housing Programs, October 2018. During #NASHPCONF18, Peggy Bailey, director of health integration at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, highlighted critical federal affordable housing programs that support state health and housing agency partnerships. In this blog, Bailey provides federal program updates and explains their impact on state efforts to improve health through housing.
States Jumpstart Efforts to Integrate Health and Housing Policies, September 2018. As part of NASHP’s health and housing institute, officials from IL, LA, NY, OR, and TX shared how they work across agency siloes at #NASHPCONF18 to improve health and housing for vulnerable populations.
Federal and State Collaboration to Improve Health through Housing, January 2017. This brief shares concrete policy recommendations from a meeting of state and federal health and housing policymakers in December 2016.
State Strategies to Improve Health through Housing Services, March 2016. This chart compiles state strategies to support health through housing services.
State Strategies for Integrating Health Care and Housing for Homeless Individuals and Families, September 2015. Featuring presentations from Oregon, Texas, and CSH, this webinar addressed the financing mechanisms, data infrastructure and strategic partnerships that facilitate the blending of health care and housing funding streams.
Reasonable Accommodations Resources, October 2018. These resources provide guidance about housing accommodations and modifications that must be made for people with disabilities and their family members.
NASHP Health & Housing Institute
Housing-Related Service Definitions in 1915(i) State Plan Amendments, 1915(c) Waivers, and Section 1115 Demonstrations, March 2019. This chart compiles information on housing-related services and provides the full text of service definitions in approved housing Medicaid waivers and state plan amendments.
NASHP’s Health and Housing Institute Celebrates First Anniversary, February 2019. Health and Housing Institute member states mark their first anniversary of advancing reforms to improve health and housing for vulnerable populations. Learn more about their progress and the resources they’re developing.
Q&A: How Connecticut Matched Its Medicaid and Homelessness Data to Improve Health through Housing, February 2019. Connecticut state leaders share their insights into the successes and challenges of matching state Medicaid data with the Homeless Management Information System in their state.
Tenancy Supports in Two States’ Medicaid Waivers, Updated July 2019. This chart compiles information about two NASHP Health & Housing Institute states’ approved housing Medicaid waivers.
State Housing and Services Options in 1915(c) Waivers for People with Developmental Disabilities, December 2018. This chart describes four states’ 1915(c) waivers, the populations they serve, and the housing-related services covered.
How Federal Housing Policy Developments Could Affect State Health and Housing Programs, October 2018. During #NASHPCONF18, Peggy Bailey, director of health integration at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, highlighted critical federal affordable housing programs that support state health and housing agency partnerships. In this blog, Bailey provides federal program updates and explains their impact on state efforts to improve health through housing.
States Jumpstart Efforts to Integrate Health and Housing Policies, September 2018. As part of NASHP’s health and housing institute, officials from IL, LA, NY, OR, and TX shared how they work across agency siloes at #NASHPCONF18 to improve health and housing for vulnerable populations.
Braiding Funds to House Complex Medicaid Beneficiaries: Key Policy Lessons from Louisiana, May 2017. This brief profiles Louisiana’s permanent supportive housing program, which is administered jointly by the state’s Medicaid agency and housing authority.
Healthy Homes
50-State Scan of Lead Screening and Treatment Policies for Children and Pregnant Women, May 2018. NASHP scanned state health care policies in 50 states and Washington, DC that promoted lead screening and treatment for children and pregnant women. The review, which included metrics, incentives, provider guidelines, CHIP abatement coverage, and reporting requirements, has been summarized in this new report.
Medicaid and CHIP Levers to Promote Lead Screening and Treatment: Indiana’s Experience, August 2018. This NASHP study explores Indiana’s efforts to address lead screening and treatment within its Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program.
State Levers to Promote Lead Screening and Treatment: Rhode Island’s Strategies, September 2018. This NASHP study explores how Rhode Island has used various levers to reduce the rate of childhood lead.