In My Place, Episode 4: The interconnectedness of health care, housing and homelessness

In this episode, we focus on the interconnectedness of health care, housing and homelessness.

Housing is health care — which becomes especially apparent when we get to know our unhoused population. Here, we talk about what happens to people’s health and health care once they have lost their permanent housing.

In My Place educates listeners on what cities like Nashville can do to prevent and end homelessness — while caring for our neighbors who are still unhoused. We talk to national and local guests about everything from best practices to worst failures and hear from people who intimately know the complexities of having nowhere to go. This show highlights how affordable housing affects each of us even if we think it doesn’t.

This series was created thanks in part to support from Pinnacle Financial Partners!

This episode was produced by Judy Tackett and Tasha A.F. Lemley.

Today’s guests:

• Bobby Watts, CEO of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council
• D’Yuanna Allen-Robb, assistant bureau director, Population Health, Metro Public Health Department
• Julia Sutherland, executive director, The Village at Glencliff
• Shauna Tucker, interim chief operating officer, Neighborhood Health
• Deirdre Nicole Childress, director of communications, trauma services and case management, Gideon’s Army

Further in:

• Overview Episode of In My Place
• Episode 1: Homelessness Facts and Faces
• Episode 2: Housing First
• Episode 3: Housing Strategies

E.T. Jones spent a year at The Village at Glencliff — first recovering from colon cancer and then from a spinal injury from a fall. He’s now been in his own apartment two years. Part of their work at The Village is to apply for and secure permanent housing for everyone recovering there.