{"id":362904,"date":"2018-05-26T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-policies-threaten-housing-health-integration-for-people-with-mental-health-conditions\/"},"modified":"2018-05-26T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:52:31","slug":"trump-policies-threaten-housing-health-integration-for-people-with-mental-health-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-policies-threaten-housing-health-integration-for-people-with-mental-health-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Policies Threaten Housing-Health Integration for People With Mental Health Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>May is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nami.org\/mentalhealthmonth\" target=\"_blank\">mental health month<\/a>, a time to focus on efforts to ensure that people with mental health conditions have the resources they need to live in the community. \u00a0Stable housing and health care\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opportunityhome.org\/related-sectors\/health\/\" target=\"_blank\">are both essential<\/a>\u00a0for good mental health, but housing instability and lack of access to health care are all too common among people with mental health conditions. \u00a0Unfortunately, the President\u2019s Medicaid policies and rental assistance\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/proposals-to-raise-rents-for-people-with-rental-assistance\" target=\"_blank\">proposals<\/a>\u00a0would\u00a0reduce\u00a0access to programs that are critical to integrating housing and health assistance in order to improve housing stability and access to health care.<\/p>\n<p>People with serious mental illness make up about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudexchange.info\/resources\/documents\/2010HomelessAssessmentReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1 in 4<\/a>\u00a0people living in homeless shelters, and over a third\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/data\/sites\/default\/files\/NSDUH-FFR1-2016\/NSDUH-FFR1-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">received no<\/a>\u00a0mental health services in the last year.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/health\/state-and-local-health-and-housing-integration-projects\" target=\"_blank\">State and local efforts<\/a>\u00a0to integrate housing and health services for people with mental health conditions show great promise to improve these outcomes. Evidence shows that models like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/housing\/supportive-housing-helps-vulnerable-people-live-and-thrive-in-the-community\" target=\"_blank\">supportive housing<\/a>, which integrates affordable housing with coordinated health and other services, help people with chronic health conditions and histories of homelessness or institutionalization stay stably housed and connected to care in the community.<\/p>\n<p>In order for models like supportive housing to work, however, programs need to connect people to both rental assistance and health care services, and many integration efforts rely on federal programs to do so.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/housing\/policy-basics-federal-rental-assistance\" target=\"_blank\">Federal rental assistance<\/a>\u00a0makes rent affordable for even the lowest-income households, removing cost as a barrier to staying housed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/report-section\/linking-medicaid-and-supportive-housing-issue-brief\/\" target=\"_blank\">Medicaid<\/a>\u00a0provides access to the community-based health care that some people with mental health conditions need in order to stay out of institutions.\u00a0 Communities can then use a mixture of state and local resources and federal grants to cover costs that rental assistance and Medicaid can\u2019t pay for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recent Trump Administration policies and proposals threaten to undermine these housing-health integration initiatives by diminishing vital&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/44599-trump-policies-threaten-housing-health-integration-for-people-with-mental-health-conditions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May is\u00a0mental health month, a time to focus on efforts to ensure that people with mental health conditions have the resources they need to live in the community. \u00a0Stable housing and health care\u00a0are both essential\u00a0for good mental health, but housing instability and lack of access to health care are all too common among people with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}