Click here to view a webinar on this topic. In this issue: The 2015 Purdue Land Values and Cash Rent Survey shows the general direction to be lower. Average farmland values were down 4% to 5% across the state and cash rents were down 1% to 2%.
Webinar describing state and local legal responses to homelessness as a public health issue, criminalization of activities related to homelessness, and use of emergency declarations in response to homelessness.
Physical & Mental Health. Poor physical health is associated with poverty in general but seems to be more pronounced among those who are without homes (APA, 2010). Rates of mental illness among people who are homeless in the United States are twice the rate found for the general population (Bassuk et al., 1998). 47 percent of homeless women meet the criteria for a diagnosis of major depressive disorderâtwice the rate of women in general (Buckner, Beardslee, & Bassuk, 2004).