Working to improve health for adults, children, and families. @camdenhealth, @cshinfo, and @csgjc alum. Views are mine.
New York, NY
Joined March 2013
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Liz Buck retweeted
Congress needs to act to block voucher cuts and homelessness policy changes that will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of people to afford rent. We know what works to prevent homelessness and evictions, but Pres Trump is trying to cut those proven solutions.
🧵It’s official - @HUDgov is slashing overall permanent housing funds by roughly 2/3 in its main #homelessness solutions program – the Continuum of Care(CoC). If Congress doesn’t undo this harmful change, over 170K formerly unhoused people will lose housing assistance next year.
Liz Buck retweeted
Paired with the expiring enhanced subsidies, we're looking at ~15 million more uninsured people over the next decade, a more than 50% increase over the number uninsured today.
Liz Buck retweeted
I was once a “revolving-door” psych patient, told I’d never finish school, let alone change lives. Thanks to @FountainHouse & @JeniferRajkumar, I found purpose—and helped elect NY’s 1st South Asian Assemblywoman. Now I fight for a system built on dignity.
nytimes.com/2025/05/07/nyreg…
Liz Buck retweeted
Disruptions to community health center payments impacts over 30 million patients according to @NACHC including people receiving care from health care for the homeless clinics @NatlHCHCouncil, clinics in rural and farm communities, and public housing residents.
Federal funding delays have pushed several community health centers nationwide to close or cut back on staff. ow.ly/52jN50UVPQC
Liz Buck retweeted
Gaga eating.
Beyoncé touring.
Republicans crashing the economy.
WELCOME BACK 2009!
Liz Buck retweeted
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has launched several “housing first” initiatives to help more people find temporary and permanent shelter. State data shows some strategies appear to be working, as Newark dropped its homelessness rate by more than 50% last year. ow.ly/wgw250UChGo
Liz Buck retweeted
INBOX: Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, the only active pastor in the U.S. Senate, releases a statement praising former President Carter amid news of his passing.
Warnock concludes: “Well done, good and faithful servant, well done.”
Liz Buck retweeted
*ICYMI*: This study from the @commonwealthfnd reveals women in the U.S. have significantly worse life expectancy, avoidable death rates, illness rates, and mental health than women in 13 other countries.
Key findings for U.S. women include…
THREAD.
commonwealthfund.org/publica…
Liz Buck retweeted
Nice to see one of @CHCShealth's #Medicaid/#reentry resources featured in this roundup from @OJPOJJDP (alongside great work from @statemedicaid, Health and Reentry Project and others) ojjdp.ojp.gov/programs/medic…
Liz Buck retweeted
Data shows that more than 40% of unhoused people booked into jail were booked again within the year
The data is clear: poor people are a primary target for policing, especially those forced to live on the streets
prisonpolicy.org/blog/2024/1…
ALT Graph titled: Of those who are jailed, unhoused people are more likely to be booked into jail multiple times in a year
Liz Buck retweeted
New York is headed to Pennsylvania to get out the vote for @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz!
We have three more days until Election Day.
Make a plan and go vote early this weekend, or get out and make your voice heard on November 5.
Liz Buck retweeted
Dear white women:
My prayer is that slowly, one by one, you are realizing that you and your daughters are FAR safer in the company of Black and Brown women,
than you ever were in the company of white men.
Vote blue the whole ballot!
Liz Buck retweeted
Thousands stay in halfway houses daily, yet there are TONS we don’t know about these facilities.
Why? Lack of transparency, privatization, poor data collection…the list goes on.
Halfway houses are an extension of the carceral experience and should be under the same scrutiny.
ALT Graphic titled: "Halfway House" can refer to facilities that differ in function, purpose, and level of carcerality