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Director @arcforequity & @ucsfbhhi Professor Medicine @ucsf & Board member @housingca & @homeless_law Passionate about ending homelessness. Views my own.
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State-Level Changes in Homelessness in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era—What Matters?

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By Margot Kushel
| JAMA Network Verified
Leifheit et al1 examine factors associated with annual state-level changes in rates of homelessness in the US between 2019 and 2024. Using a study design leveraging state-level data, they found that eviction moratoria and climate emergencies were associated with year-over-year changes in homelessness between 2019 and 2024.
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Urban Strategies Promotes Housing Security as Health Care

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By Marc Dones, Margot Kushel
| Stanford Social Innovation Review Verified
(Illustration by Marcos Chin) The greatest form of love is healthy, safe, and thriving communities. The best way to ensure that is to secure adequate, safe, and affordable housing for all. At its core, health care is about helping people live healthy lives. Clinical care is only one piece of the puzzle, however. Research shows that medical services contribute some 10 percent to overall health outcomes.
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Opinion | Debrina Kawam's death proves even sleeping can be risky for the homeless Original

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By Margot Kushel
| MS NOW Verified
Jan. 3, 2025, 9:45 PM UTC On a New York City subway car in the early morning of Dec. 22, a man set a sleeping woman on fire in a brutal act of senseless violence. Her name was Debrina Kawam; she was a 57-year-old woman experiencing homelessness in New York City, trying to sleep and keep warm on a cold winter day. The story made the front page of many major news outlets. But left unsaid was how frequently people experiencing homelessness are killed — often while sleeping.
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