Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods

The physical, social and economic conditions in our neighborhoods have a significant impact on both our health and financial well-being. They shape the opportunities we have and the choices that are available to us. Whether a community has resources like safe and affordable housing, quality jobs and high-quality education has a profound impact on how well and how long residents live. Low-income communities and communities of color have historically and systemically been excluded from accessing these kinds of opportunities.   

Build Healthy Places Network, Prosperity Now and the Financial Health Network, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, have released Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods, a new report that explores how to foster alignment across the community development, public health, healthcare and financial well-being sectors. Based on focus groups, interviews and an exhaustive scan of published an online resource our report identified examples of existing alignment across sectors, opportunities for increased collaboration and integration, challenges to integrating across sectors and ways to foster alignment.