The first use of insulin in 1922, the discovery of penicillin in 1928, and the first successful organ transplant in 1954, are but a few of the medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century that dramatically reduced morbidity and mortality related to diabetes mellitus, bacterial infections, and chronic diseases. While scientists and researchers continue to look for similar epoch-making discoveries in the twenty-first century, there is an underutilized preventive and therapeutic treatment already available in our society that could have a similar impact on improving the quality and length of life for many people in our communities—housing.

Over the past two decades, there has been an increasingly large amount of evidence showing that non-biomedical factors—including socioeconomic status, h

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