Originally published on Affordable Housing Finance.

It’s time for the nation to reset, said Dr. Megan Sandel, co-director of the GROW clinic at Boston Medical Center, co-lead principal investigator with Children’s HealthWatch, and associate professor of pediatrics at Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

“Housing acts as a vaccine. A vaccine keeps you healthy now and in the future,” said the nationally recognized expert on health and housing. “We need additional resources for housing, including the multifamily space. We have to protect what we have, but we need a new investment at the federal level for kids and families to equitably give everyone that fair shot.”