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Webinar
Health and Homelessness
Homelessness and COVID-19
Peter Burgess
May 15, 2020 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) ● Michele Heisler, MODERATOR PHR’s medical director, and professor of internal medicine and public health at the University of Michigan Medical School. ● Kelly Doran, MD, MHS, an emergency physician and assistant professor in the departments of emergency medicine and population health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine ● Margot Kushel, MD, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, and practicing general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital ● Pascale Leone, director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Corporation for Supportive Housing Webinar ID 821 8113 0037 You 02:43 PM This is not a popular question ... but ... how do you MANAGE the delivery of services to the homeless comminity and differentiate between programs that work well and those that do not work quite so well. What role do you see for relevant metrics? Peter Burgess You 02:44 PM What do you see as relevant metrics? You 02:51 PM The cost of renting shelter has gone up and up and up over the past 40 years ... the wages of bottom of the pyramid work has flatlined for the same time period ... how much of homeless comes from this systemic economic inequality? You 02:55 PM Affordable housing is an oximoron when the wages of a huge number of essential workers is way too low and has been like this for four decades You 02:57 PM The USA is two (or more) countries ... one that is the top 10% and one that is the bottom 90% ... the average of all is a nonsensicle data point.