Participants in King County’ Washington’s Health Through Housing initiative (HTH), a ‘Housing First’ approach to assisting unhoused residents, are seeing marked improvements in their health, reports Guy Oron for Real Change.
People in the program, which has served close to 2,000 residents between 2021 and 2024, visited emergency rooms 17 percent fewer times and spent 33 percent fewer days in the hospital after one year of living in housing. “King County HTH initiative manager Jelani Jackson said the data shows that relieving people from the constant stress and trauma of homelessness directly leads to them getting healthier.”…