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Exploring Relevant Policy Domains — Housing Policy and Population Health: A Workshop

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Housing is a key driver of health, influencing stability, safety, and opportunity. This one-day public workshop will explore how housing insecurity, affordability, quality, and neighborhood factors shape health outcomes, particularly for low-income and underserved populations. Panels may examine policy tools including housing vouchers, rent stabilization, and low-income housing tax credits; regulations such as zoning and building standards; and emerging strategies such as community land trusts and health-oriented design in affordable housing. Speakers will also discuss growing threats to housing stability, including the financialization of housing and private equity investment.

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Exploring Relevant Policy Domains — Housing Policy and Population Health: A Workshop

  • December 15, 2025
  • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (EST)
  • Workshop
  • Upcoming

Housing is a key driver of health, influencing stability, safety, and opportunity. This one-day public workshop will explore how housing insecurity, affordability, quality, and neighborhood factors sh...

Top down aerial view of Chicago Downtown urban grid with park.

Description

Planning committees of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and conduct a series of public workshops featuring invited presentations and discussion to explore policy---as a structural driver of population health---in several domains.

(1) Labor policy at different levels of government;
(2) Tax policy at different levels of government; and
(3) Housing policy at different levels of government.
During the year-long series, workshops will explore each policy domain with attention to such factors as the evidence linking policy approaches to improved population health outcomes, design principles for effectiveness and impact, examples of innovative local or regional approaches, and illustrative case examples that highlight the policy environments and themes that cut across the three policy domains.

Each planning committee will identify specific topics to be addressed, develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and other participants (with attention to showcasing a wide range perspectives), and moderate the discussions. A proceedings-in brief summarizing the presentations and discussions at each workshop in the series will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

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