Giles has been the mayor here in Mesa for more than 4 years
Affordable Housing is a problem
ASPEN, Colo. — In the midst of one of the country's leading gatherings on health and health care, one issue – quality, affordable housing – has been pointed to as the source of many of the nation's ills.
"Mayors have understood for a long time that affordable housing is a problem," John Giles, mayor of Mesa, Arizona, said Friday during a session at the Aspen Ideas: Health conference here in Colorado.
"I am beginning to understand that it is the problem."
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"Excellent panel this morning at the #AspenIdeas Festival about Housing and Health, how they are inextricably connected and how communities are developing new approaches to housing that include health. #AspenIdeasHeaIth "
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Better Housing for Better Health
Improving where people live can go a long way toward helping them live healthier lives, stakeholders say.
By Steve Sternberg Assistant Managing Editor for Health Initiatives
June 21, 2019, at 5:46 p.m.
"Who was given the opportunity to buy homes? It was not people of color," he said. "They were not given mortgages. They were not allowed to move to suburban America."
[Mesa is the biggest suburb in the United States]
Giles said he awakened to the importance of housing as a factor in community health four or five years ago, when he was cutting the ribbon on an affordable-housing project designed with wraparound services for mental health and access to healthy food.
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BLOGGER NOTE: Giles can only say "four or five years ago"?
The attainable and affordable housing project he's referring to is
< El Rancho Del Arte Phase 1
< El Rancho Del Arte Phase 2:El Rancho Del Sol
Built by CDP Community Development Partners
[This is one of first affordable housing initiatives that inspired the publishing of this blog starting in February 2015]
Giles said he awakened to the importance of housing as a factor in community health four or five years ago, when he was cutting the ribbon on an affordable-housing project designed with wraparound services for mental health and access to healthy food.
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The attainable and affordable housing project he's referring to is
< El Rancho Del Arte Phase 1
< El Rancho Del Arte Phase 2:El Rancho Del Sol
Built by CDP Community Development Partners
[This is one of first affordable housing initiatives that inspired the publishing of this blog starting in February 2015]
"I realized this was going to have a significant impact in my community," Giles said. "There was nothing more important than what we were doing that day."
Evidence documenting housing's impact on health has been piling up for decades.
Housing-related problems can leave a lasting legacy as well, helping assure that families will remain in poverty – possibly for generations.
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Today, that housing has been replaced with appealing mixed-income residences. . . "The goal is to build a community where you can't tell the socioeconomic status of the people who live there," she said.
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THE INFLUENCE OF HOUSING ON HEALTH
Aspen Ideas: Health explores challenges in medicine, science, and global health and brings together people unafraid to face them down.
https://www.aspenideas.org/sessions/the-influence-of-housing-on-health
Aspen Ideas: Health explores challenges in medicine, science, and global health and brings together people unafraid to face them down.
https://www.aspenideas.org/sessions/the-influence-of-housing-on-health
"Improved housing offers a tremendous opportunity to boost health. Some of the links between substandard housing and poor health are obvious, if alarming – pests and mold promote asthma, lead poisoning irreversibly damages the brains of developing children, inadequate heating and ventilation increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Less immediately visible is the impact of unaffordable housing, which forces families to make choices among basic needs, and neighborhood conditions, such as lack of access to nutritional food. To lift up their residents and position their cities for economic growth, US mayors are turning to innovative partnerships to safeguard that place called home.
"John Giles is the mayor of Mesa, AZ.
< He was first elected in a special election in August 2014, then re-elected two years later to begin a full, four-year term in January 2017.
Giles previously served on Mesa City Council from 1996 to 2000, including a term as vice mayor. He has managed his own law firm, Giles & Dickson, for over 20 years. Overseeing a growing economy that has added thousands of new jobs, new national employers, and over $1.5 billion in capital investment, Giles is bringing renewed focus to Mesa’s downtown, which includes a budding innovation district, as well as expanding higher education and pre-K options in the city."
https://www.aspenideas.org/speakers/john-giles https://www.facebook.com/MayorGiles/"John Giles is the mayor of Mesa, AZ.
Giles previously served on Mesa City Council from 1996 to 2000, including a term as vice mayor. He has managed his own law firm, Giles & Dickson, for over 20 years. Overseeing a growing economy that has added thousands of new jobs, new national employers, and over $1.5 billion in capital investment, Giles is bringing renewed focus to Mesa’s downtown, which includes a budding innovation district, as well as expanding higher education and pre-K options in the city."
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