The city is taking steps to address healthcare in ways that go beyond a trip to the doctor’s office.
Mayor Adams and NYC Health + Hospitals announced the “Housing for Health” initiative at the T Building in Jamaica Hills last Thursday. The building, located on the campus of NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens, is a former tuberculosis hospital that has been converted into a 200-unit apartment building, with 75 units dedicated to supportive housing for patients of the hospital system who had been experiencing homelessness.
Residents started moving into the building over the summer. The other 125 units are dedicated for those with incomes from 60 percent to 80 percent of the area median income, which is $120,100 for a three-person family in New York City in 2022.
The initiative is four-pronged, with NYC Health + Hospitals pledging to counsel and help eligible patients find and apply for affordable supportive housing and dedicate respite beds to medically frail patients no longer in need of hospitalization but still in need of medical care, in addition to converting unused hospital land to affordable housing developments and funding social services at the sites.
Services at the T Building are handled by the Brooklyn-based nonprofit CAMBA and funded through a former Mayor de Blasio-developed supportive housing initiative.
9 comments:
I blame Trump !
Who came up with 120 K median income? Blackstone?
Ain’t capitalism wonderful!!
@ "Ain’t capitalism wonderful"
Yes it is for me and millions of others Commie TA !
So you don't like capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor ?
Move to China or Cuba then see how that works out.
"Who came up with 120 K median income?"
It's the median income of the area. Math came up with it.
@NPC
The median income in Jamaica is about half that. Maybe less.
"The median income in Jamaica is about half that. Maybe less."
Woops. Yeah, they said the median for NYC, not for the area.
"60 percent to 80 percent of the area median income, which is $120,100 for a three-person family in New York City in 2022."
So what either way.
Dr NPC Doofus has his own Q-Anon calculator
@“ So you don't like capital accumulation, competitive markets, price system”
Take a hike, DemoRat !
I remember when a $500 a month mortgage was a lot in the late 70's
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