One Community: Health experts prescribe safe, affordable housing

In Franklin County, black infants are twice as likely as white infants to die before their first birthday – the most stark of several health inequities across race, income and sexual identity. The county’s overall infant mortality rate changed little from 2000 to 2015. Many of the contributing risks – poor prenatal care, nutrition, lead contamination, chronic stress among them – can be traced ba ck to unsafe and unstable housing.
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