Margot Kushel, MD, director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, delivered the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies’ 23rd John T. Dunlop Lecture. After the lecture there was a panel, featuring, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless founder, Harvard Medical School professor James J. O’Connell, and Peggy Bailey, a leader of a housing policy research center. The panelists shared there perspectives on policy and economic approaches to addressing the housing crisis, agreeing that providing dedicated, sustained support to unhoused individuals is necessary. “The first thing we need to do is to recognize that every single path to ending this crisis flows through housing,” Dr. Kushel said.
