Course Description

This CE will provide a snapshot of the current housing crisis in the U.S. and examine how it is driving up cost of living, inequality, and poor health outcomes. We will investigate the causes of the housing crisis and how real estate has driven historic levels of inequality by serving as a primary vehicle for a massive consolidation of wealth for the richest 1% over the last several decades. The course will draw a connection between the role of private equity in health care and in housing to show how the problems of a lack of access to care and a lack of access to housing are linked and derive from policies that have rendered housing and health into economic sources of private profit at immense social cost.

We will also analyze the public health impacts of the housing crisis by looking at studies on the health risks of poor housing, polluted neighborhoods, and homelessness. We’ll consider the impacts on nurses in particular (high cost of living with stagnating wages, increased patient loads, higher acuity, poor working conditions, etc.) and how nurses are fighting for health care and housing as human rights.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the causes of the housing crisis in the US.
• Understand housing as a health determinant and the myriad ways housing conditions impact patient and public health.
• Link drivers of inequality in both housing and health care markets.

Instructor:

Kel Montalvo-Quiñones

Course Information:

• This will be a 3-hour online class via Zoom for 3 hours of continuing education credits.
• You will receive Zoom information for this class, via email, a week before your class date.
• Registrations will close for these classes at 9am on the prior business day.

Dates:

• Tuesday, June 30 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Thursday, July 30 – 2pm to 5pm PT/5pm to 8pm ET\
• Tuesday, August 18 – 12pm to 3pm PT/3pm to 6pm ET
• Tuesday, September 15 – 2pm to 5pm PT/5pm to 8pm ET
• Thursday, October 22 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Tuesday, October 27 - 12pm to 3pm PT/3pm to 6pm ET
• Wednesday, November 4 - 10am to 1pm PT/1pm to 4pm ET
• Tuesday, November 17 - 12pm to 3pm PT/3pm to 6pm ET
• Wednesday, December 2 – 9am to 12pm PT/12pm to 3pm ET
• Monday, December 14 - 12pm to 3pm PT/3pm to 6pm ET

CE courses are free to National Nurses United members. Classes are only offered to direct-care and staff RNs.