Healy convenes health leaders at Boston Medical Center to press multi‑billion housing bond tied to health and workforce needs

Governor Healy convened leaders from hospitals, community health centers and elder‑care programs at Boston Medical Center to make the case that large‑scale investments in affordable and supportive housing are a public‑health and workforce imperative.

At the convening, BMC leaders described clinical evidence tying housing to better health outcomes and lower health‑system use. "We actually tested that with a randomized controlled trial," a BMC research clinician said, citing a trial in which children whose families received housing and supportive services were about "32% less likely to be in fair or poor health" after six months and parents showed reductions in anxiety and depression. The hospital urged the administration's proposed bond bill as a way to scale such models.

The administration presented the bond bill as a major housing…