BOSTON (SHNS) – The state’s COVID-19 Neighborhood Influence Survey captured information underscoring that sure teams have confronted disproportionately larger charges of housing insecurity through the pandemic, Appearing Public Well being Commissioner Margret Cooke mentioned Wednesday.
Cooke mentioned throughout a Public Well being Council assembly that housing is an “vital situation” to debate now that the federal moratorium on evictions is not in place.
She mentioned outcomes from the survey, which had greater than 30,000 responses, present that individuals who establish as transgender had been greater than twice as more likely to report worrying about needing to maneuver and greater than 1.3 instances as more likely to report worrying about paying housing-related bills, in comparison with individuals who don’t establish as transgender.
On the subsequent Public Well being Council assembly, scheduled for Oct. 13, Cooke mentioned there shall be a presentation on housing consciousness.
