Getting More Formerly Incarcerated People Into Public Housing [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/28/1612:00 PM

When Afomeia Tesfai, a research fellow for Human Impact Partners, took a look at the health impacts of public-housing policies on the formerly incarcerated in Oakland, California, she found some good news. Public housing authorities normally have a bad rep for creating policies that make it difficult for those returning from jail to find new, affordable homes. In Oakland, however, former inmates have been finding it a bit easier to get into public housing in recent years, Tesfai found in a new report from the Ella Baker Center.

[For more of this story, written by Brentin Mock, go to http://www.citylab.com/crime/2...blic-housing/488450/]

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