Random Thoughts
There have been a couple of quotes of late that grabbed my attention. The first made me ponder how solutions are so intertwined. Good housing impacts health leading to impacting the national debt. The second was just the most logical explanation of evolving I have come across in reading. Not something I expected to find in the summer 2016 edition of Wildflower , a magazine from the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center here in Austin. The first was a statistic published in the May, 2016, habitat, The Magazine for Habitat for Humanity International . There is a "12% decline in total Medicaid expenditures after people moved into affordable housing." Research was conducted by Enterprise Community Partners and the Center for Outcomes Research and Education. The research represents one of the first studies to directly assess the impact on health care costs in the U.S. as related to low income individuals living in affordable housing. The second quote was disco...