Housing providers are eager to understand what CDC’s March 8, Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People mean to them.
The March 8 interim public health recommendations say that fully vaccinated people can:
The House Committee on Financial Services held a March 10 hearing on, “Justice for All: Achieving Racial Equity Through Fair Access to Housing and Financial Services.”
On March 5, the White House formally announced the appointment of Erika Poethig as Special Assistant to the President for Housing and Urban Policy at the White House’s Domestic Policy Council (DPC).
LeadingAge looks forward to working with Ms. Poethig in her new role.
HUD has issued a Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for a new program, the Older Adult Home Modification Program (OAHMP), to enable low income older adult homeowners to remain in their homes through low cost, low barrier, high impact home modifications to reduce older adults’ risk of falling, improve general safety, increase accessibility, and to improve their functional abilities in their home. The NOFA will provide grants to experienced nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, and public housing authorities to undertake this work.
A LeadingAge-coordinated sign-on letter urges HUD, CDC, and the White House’s Domestic Policy Council to “work together to ensure that HUD-supported affordable housing communities are prioritized for vaccines and have access to COVID-19 vaccine partners who will provide on-site vaccination clinics to residents and staff.”
On January 27, 2021, LeadingAge’s Janine Finck-Boyle joined experts Dr. Lee Fleisher (CMS) , Jean Moody-Williams (CMS), Dr. Janell Routh (CDC), Dr. Ruth Link-Gelles (CDC), Arjun Srinivasan (CDC), and Evan Shulman (CMS) for a Fireside Chat.
Q: There are many questions about how soon there will be changes to guidance on visitation, testing, masking, etc. now that vaccination is underway.
An interactive and informative listening session, hosted by CDC’s Dr. Carolyn Bridges, explored current issues in the COVID vaccination roll-out for older adults in the community and in residential settings. Dr. Bridges began the call with what she called ‘ground level’ facts and known issues related to the organization and distribution of vaccines to those in the 1A category across states.
In summary, these facts and known issues included:
CDC Travel Guidelines:
On April 9, the National Fair Housing Alliance released a resource on COVID19 and the Fair Housing Act.
The resource states that people who currently have COVID-19, those who have a history of having the virus, and those who are perceived as having the virus may be protected against housing discrimination under long-standing interpretations of the Fair Housing Act and other civil rights laws.
In an April 8 letter to the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), two New York City officials, “urge HPD and DOHMH to work together to address the needs of our older New Yorkers living in Section 202 buildings, and to treat them the same as nursing homes or other facilities serving older New Yorkers.”
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