In recent decades, both the healthcare and housing fields have increasingly acknowledged the importance of social determinants of health, or the conditions in which people are born and live, while improving health outcomes. The emphasis on factors such as economic stability, education access and quality, neighborhood and housing conditions, social and community access, and health care access elevates the understanding that place matters and that not every neighborhood offers the same opportunities for people to thrive. Too often, because of our nation’s entrenched history of housing discrimination and residential segregation, people of color are less likely to live in places that provide the optimal conditions to lead a healthy life.

The Fair Housing Act provides an important tool that can be used by health practitioners to dismantle these patterns: the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) mandate. Join us to discuss how health and housing practitioners can tackle the health inequities linked to segregation and race to ensure that every neighborhood is a place of opportunity.

Speakers: Laurie Benner, Associate Vice President, Housing and Community Development, National Fair Housing Alliance Shanti Abedin, Vice President, Housing and Community Development, National Fair Housing Alliance Maddy Shea, Principal, Health Management Associates Leticia Reyes-Nash, Principal, Health Management Associates