How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick: Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities

Our neighborhoods are literally making us sick.

Buildings with mold trigger asthma and other respiratory conditions. Geographic lack of access to food and health care increases childhood mortality. Community violence traumatizes residents. Poverty, unemployment, inadequate housing, food insecurity, racial injustice, and oppression cause physical changes in the body, resulting in disease and death.

But there is hope. Loving our neighbor includes creating social environments in which people can...