Category | Scope | Types of Needs Articulated |
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Health status creates need for housing relocation | Campaigners who needed to relocate in order to be closer to health care facilities or to improve their health | Relocation to be closer to a hospital providing ongoing treatment; Maintaining regular residence while funding temporary relocation to access treatment |
Health status or impairment creates need for housing modification(s) | Campaigners whose health status or impairment(s) necessitated housing modifications, typically to improve accessibility | Building ramps or wheelchair turnarounds; Installing roll-in showers or ceiling tracks |
Health status contributes to poor or no housing | Campaigners who were unable to cover housing costs, attributing this at least in part to their health and the costs associated with its maintenance (e.g., prescriptions) | Assistance with paying for some or all of rent and housing-related costs such as utilities; Costs associated with acquiring housing (e.g., first month of rent, damage deposit) |
Deleterious housing contributing to poor health status | Campaigners living in deleterious housing that was negatively affecting their health | Assistance with covering costs of black mold removal; Costs associated with remediating structurally unsound housing (e.g., moisture in floorboards/walls, exposed electrical sockets) |
Cycle of poor health status contributing to poor housing and the opposite | Campaigners who reported experiencing a long-term connection between poor health exacerbating poor housing and the opposite | Support to pay rent due to the inability to work; Costs of rebuilding a life shaped by multiple traumas |