Community & Public Health

In the District of Columbia, a shortage of affordable housing, a hyper-expensive rental market and aging and vanishing housing stock has have tenants battling spiraling rents and housing costs, and have left them at increased risk of getting displaced.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Poverty and Class

Across Louisville, more than 44,000 people live within food deserts, meaning they can't easily get healthy, affordable food. Here are some key takeaways from The Courier Journal's coverage of the issue.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Food and Nutrition, Community Safety

The resurgence in the Louisville business community’s interest in socially responsible companies is evident in the popularity of Canopy, a new initiative to foster businesses that do good as an integral part of their overall mission.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Food and Nutrition

About two years ago today, the Kroger Co. announced its decision to close the only full-service grocery store in downtown Louisville. Overnight, thousands of Louisvillians —many of them struggling with limited resources — were left without a place nearby to purchase basic necessities.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Food and Nutrition

“I have to meet this guy and have sex with him. If I don’t, then he and his friends are going to rape my little sister,” a student at Frank Ballou High School in Ward 8’s Congress Heights told her teacher.

Environmental Health, Mental Health

Rural regions across the country are facing a growing wave of hospital closures, shutterings that can pose huge burdens for those in need of urgent care — and can be a matter of life-or-death in emergencies. Hospital closures come as rural America confronts a series of health crises that go beyond t