Episode 7 - Housing as Healthcare with Michael Rouppet
Thirty-eight years ago on January 1st, 1983, doctors opened Ward 86 at San Francisco General Hospital, the first dedicated HIV clinic in the country. San Francisco, LGBTQ politics, and science has changed dramatically since 1983 thanks to activists, advocates, doctors, and HIV/AIDS survivors, but HIV survivors remain undersupported. On September 18, 2020, during the Coronavirus pandemic, a group of HIV long-term survivors and advocates released the San Francisco Principles 2020, a statement outlining the challenges of aging with HIV and the need for better care and more representation, demanding “Nothing About Us Without Us.” Jackie Fielder discusses the intersection of affordable housing, tenants rights, homelessness, and health justice with Michael Rouppet, who has faced HIV, eviction, and homelessness, and has been a board member director of Marty’s Place Affordable Housing Corporation, a housing counselor, sex health educator, transcendental meditator, and board member of the San Francisco Community Land Trust.
Notes
The San Francisco Principles 2020
Marty's Place Affordable Housing Corporation
San Francisco Community Land Trust
Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
Ward 86 and "The San Francisco Model" (UCSF)
HIV Long-Term Survivors Release San Francisco Principles (POZ)