BACKGROUND Tenants in multiunit housing are at elevated risk for exposure to secondhand smoke at home because of smoke migration from other units. COMMUNITY CONTEXT In 2004, tobacco control advocates in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area began to address this issue by launching a campaign to work with landlord and tenant advocates, private- and public-sector property managers, and other ...

T Public Housing Primary Care (PHPC) Program, created under the Disadvantaged Minority Health Improvement Act of 1990 and administered by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), enables 40 community health centers across the country to expand their primary care services to residents of public housing. These health centers are located on ...

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are frequently renegotiated as their contracts long-term, often with a duration exceeding 30 years, involve major investments, and necessary incomplete. Still, while contract incompleteness is difficult to prevent, renegotiation frequency does not decline in spite of decades experience. Electoral cycles political connections lead strategic behaviour by both th...