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Kerry Abbott

@kerrabx.bsky.social

Housing and homelessness systems advisor/consultant. Former Director of Housing and Homelessness Services for Alameda County Health. Former Deputy Director of San Francisco HSH.

138 Followers  |  130 Following  |  2 Posts  |  Joined: 18.11.2024  |  1.9816

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Medicaid Expansion: Frequently Asked Questions | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Affordable Care Act (ACA) permits states to expand Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes up to 138 percent of the poverty level. States that have adopted the Medicaid expansion have dramaticall...

Medicaid expansion covers more than 20M adults w/ low incomes, helping them become healthier & more financially secure. Expansion coverage has saved lives, improved access to care and health outcomes & protected people from medical debt. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

28.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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You may qualify for battery/generator rebate programs, shelter accommodations, and transportation services during Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events. Call 211 or text “PSPS” to 211-211 today to see if you qualify!

31.03.2025 19:13 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

The US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) focuses on preventing & ending homelessness. Dissolving it (and devastating cuts to HUD, SAMHSA etc) will hamper efforts to address homelessness—as the these policies dramatically worsen an existing catastrophe.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

15.03.2025 16:28 — 👍 87    🔁 30    💬 2    📌 2

A top official in the Office of Public and Indian Housing "mapped out his focuses in a Thursday staff meeting (...) including evicting undocumented residents of public housing. He also talked about implementing term limits or work requirements for most residents..."

23.02.2025 22:39 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Disruptions to community health center payments can impact over 30 million patients according to the Nat’l Assoc of Community Health Centers including people receiving care from health care for the homeless clinics @nhchc.bsky.social, clinics in rural & farm communities, & public housing residents.

08.02.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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HUD Announces $10 Million Funding Opportunity to Support Housing and Community Development Research at Minority-Serving Institutions HUD No. 25-008 HUD Public Affairs (202) 708-0685 FOR RELEASE Friday January 10, 2024 HUD Announces $10 Million Funding Opportunity to Support Housing and Community Development Research at Minority-Ser...

🚨Funding alert!🚨 HUD PD&R just announced $10M funding opportunity to support Minority Serving Institutions to research critical housing and community development topics, strengthen knowledge and build research capacity. Proposals due 4/9/25. Pls help spread the word! 1/5
www.hud.gov/press/press_...

15.01.2025 15:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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This doc tracking rental price gouging in LA (posted by
@latenantsunion.bsky.social on X) has been up for less than five hours, and already 57 properties are on the list.

The rent gouging is unreal:

"Listed $9,995 on 1/7/2025 (!) and then increased to $14,500 on 1/11/2025"

bit.ly/price-gougin...

12.01.2025 04:45 — 👍 529    🔁 307    💬 25    📌 51
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L.A. restaurants offering shelter, discounts and food to fire evacuees and first responders These L.A. restaurants and coffee shops are staying open to shelter evacuees, offering discounts and, in some cases, free food to evacuees and first responders to the numerous ongoing fires in Souther...

Here is an ongoing list of LA restaurants that are offering shelter, food, and support to first responders and evacuees:

bit.ly/LAaid

09.01.2025 00:29 — 👍 10477    🔁 6611    💬 84    📌 96

A staggering statistic: Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a *9 percent* increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The math of our housing crisis is brutally clear.

03.12.2024 14:30 — 👍 693    🔁 358    💬 11    📌 29

I have really missed having a forum like this! Happy to see some familiar faces and lots of people working on housing options for all.

18.11.2024 20:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just joined. Thanks for this, Margot!

18.11.2024 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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