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“When we talk about health, and we talk about housing, you cannot divorce one from the other, they must come together,” said Norman Bristol Colon, a speaker at the event. “Not only in the Lehigh Valley, but all across this state and all across this nation, housing is becoming a human rights issue.”
The fifth annual Health Equity Summit this week reported the housing crisis in the Pennsylvania community has not been dealt with adequately. About 34 percent of households are cost-burdened.