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The MLP team at the Cleveland Community Advocacy Program in Cleveland, OH worked with the Cleveland City Council to pass a resolution in support of U Visas on March 22, 2010.

ABSTRACT:

Medical professionals are becoming more deeply aware that a child’s environment as much as, or even more than, biological and genetic factors can affect her health. One such environmental determinant of health is the condition of the housing where a child lives. All states and most localities have laws governing the conditions of residential property. Lawyers, by advocating proper enforcement of these laws, ensure that housing is safe and sanitary—and thus help children grow up healthy.

Doctors and lawyers team up to address housing problems for patients on individual and systemic levels.

CITATION:
Rx for Tenants.  Shelterforce.  Fall 2006:28.   D Holtzman.