Berkeley Media Studies GroupAdvancing health equity through housing

Advancing health equity through housing

Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) was a grantee of The Kresge Foundation’s Advancing Health Equity Through Housing Initiative. This initiative sought to identify community-driven practices that connect the housing and health sectors and recognize multisector partnerships that preserve and increase the supply of stable housing to improve the health and well-being of families and communities in cities around the country. Key tenets of this grant included:

Housing, particularly for low- and moderate-income households, is an important platform for individuals and families to achieve health, well-being, and economic stability;
Solutions designed with significant and meaningful input from those most affected are most likely to result in positive long-term change; and
An understanding that the most effective approaches emerge when community members have the tools, power, and support necessary to influence the public and private systems that shape their lives.

To support this work, BMSG conducted media research and analysis and provided strategic communication and narrative-change trainings and tools that supported grantees in advancing equity-focused solutions to improve housing affordability and quality and to improve health outcomes.