Housing Justice
Working alongside housing justice movements to win housing and health for all
Housing is a basic human need and a critical building block of health.
But policy decisions and disinvestment driven by racism and corporate greed have turned our homes into commodities, resulting in mass evictions, foreclosures, community displacement, unsafe and uninhabitable housing, houselessness, and deep racial inequities.
We leverage public health’s knowledge, power, data, and resources to build power with grassroots housing justice movements. When we join together, we can create a future where everyone has a home to rest in, care for their loved ones, heal, and pursue our dreams — where housing is a human right.
We support housing justice movements via:
- Policy Influence: Our research and advocacy have contributed to dignified housing policies, eliminated discriminatory housing practices, and mobilized public health agencies in housing justice campaigns.
- Changing the narrative to center health: We leverage narrative strategy to position housing as a building block of health.
- Building a new base of public health support: HIP’s California-based Housing Justice as Health Equity Collaborative strengthens public health’s role in advancing stable and affordable housing.
- Bridging health agencies and housing justice organizations: We foster collaborations between health departments and tenant rights movements to enhance tenant protections and support policies like Right to Counsel for eviction defense.
We support housing justice movements via:
- American University
- Boston University School of Public Health
- Capella University
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
- City University of New York
- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- Colorado School of Public Health
- Drexel University
- Emory University Rollins School of Public Health
- George Washington University
- Georgia State University
- Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Howard University
- Iowa State University
- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Northeastern University
- Northwestern University
- Oregon Health and Science University and Portland State University School of Public Health
- Rutgers University
- San Diego State University School of Public Health
- San Francisco State University
- San Jose State University
- Seattle University
- Tufts University
- Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
- University of California Davis
- University of California Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health
- University of Central Arkansas
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health
- University of Iowa College of Public Health
- University of Maryland School of Public Health
- University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Wayne State University
- University of Minnesota School of Public Health
- University of Minnesota Medical School
- University of Oxford
- University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
- University of South Florida College of Public Health
- University of Southern California
- University of Victoria
- University of Washington School of Public Health
- University of Wisconsin Madison
- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
We support housing justice movements via:
- Policy Influence: Our research and advocacy have contributed to dignified housing policies, eliminated discriminatory housing practices, and mobilized public health agencies in housing justice campaigns.
- Changing the narrative to center health: We leverage narrative strategy to position housing as a building block of health.
- Building a new base of public health support: HIP’s California-based Housing Justice as Health Equity Collaborative strengthens public health’s role in advancing stable and affordable housing.
- Bridging health agencies and housing justice organizations: We foster collaborations between health departments and tenant rights movements to enhance tenant protections and support policies like Right to Counsel for eviction defense.
From our partners
“We are so excited about our partnership with HIP because there is a huge untapped potential for public health to support grassroots housing justice organizations to win safe and stable homes.”
Malcolm Chu
Right to the City Alliance
Home Sick: Uncovering the Health Harms in Homes of America’s Manufactured Housing Communities
In collaboration with Manufactured Housing Action, we explored the state of housing habitability for 10 Homes of America manufactured home communities, and assessed the health impacts of these habitability issues on residents.
Corporate Wealth vs Community Health: How Corporate Landlords’ Profit-Seeking Strategies Harm Health
With the guidance of 12 housing justice and public health experts, we explored the threat that corporate landlords pose to housing conditions and public health. We build the case for public health and governmental action to counteract corporate landlords’ exacerbation of the national housing and health crisis.
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