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When couples must choose between financial stability and living conditions that harm everyone's health

My wife and I moved back in with my parents because we couldn't afford rent and groceries and her medications but now there are five adults in a two-bedroom house and the overcrowding is affecting everyone's mental health and we can't figure out how to prioritize our way out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Housing insecurity creates cascading health impacts that affect multiple generations trying to survive together.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

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