Rebuilding Together Oakland brings communities and volunteers together to repair the homes of low income homeowners in Oakland so they may live in safety, comfort and independence.
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A study of low-income residents in L.A. and four other U.S. cities finds that those who moved into better-off areas may become healthier than those who stayed behind.
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“The next step would probably be to intervene by altering neighborhoods rather than moving people out of neighborhoods,” Dr. Robert Whitaker, a pediatrician at Temple University in Philadelphia said. “Now that we have seen experimentally that people who are placed in very different neighborhoods do better, the question is, how we can address the quality of the neighborhoods … without necessarily having [residents] move?”
That’s a question that Rebuilding Together Oakland — and other community organizations — work hard to answer each day.
