HASA for All
A growing movement to provide housing and other lifesaving benefits to New Yorkers with HIV before they get sick
In February 2008 City Council member Annabel Palma introduced the HASA for All Act, that would extends
housing benefits to asymptomatic people living with HIV.
People with AIDS and opportunistic infections already receive lifesaving HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) services, and recent studies have shown housing is an effective tool for both HIV prevention and health care. That’s why it came as a shock when Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a former housing advocate, opposed the HASA for All Act on the grounds that “if we house people with AIDS, we’ll have to house people with other diseases.”
Despite Quinn’s opposition, Housing Works and other advocates are working with other members of City Council to find funding for a HASA for All demonstration research project, to prove that HASA for All is both cost-effective and will prove health outcomes.
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