This report from LISC Research & Evaluation shows how Medicaid can fund community interventions to improve the social determinants of health. The model is paving the way for community-based organizations to collaborate with hospitals and insurers to promote health equity and lower healthcare costs in the bargain.
LISC’s research report offers rigorous evidence that large landlords have reaped the greatest profits in communities of color, and that this speculation drives evictions and poor housing maintenance quality.
A new white paper from LISC's Research and Evaluation team offers quantitative and qualitative evidence of how intensive and collaborative community development in rural America raises standards of living and civic engagement in concrete and enduring ways.