Promoting Safety and Connection During COVID-19: Tiny Homes as an Innovative Response to Homelessness in the USA.

Using an international human rights framework, this study explores how tiny home villages have provided unhoused individuals with critical shelter necessary for preserving health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, while attending to the needs of social connection and community maintenance. The gaps and inadequacies of conventional shelter systems in the USA for people experiencing homelessness have been highlighted by COVID-19. Physical distancing can be challenging for people experiencing homelessness due to the crowded congregate shelters and encampments.

A Systematic Review of the Association between Poverty and Biomarkers of Toxic Stress.

: Toxic stress has been identified as a key mechanism by which poverty impacts health and empirical evidence on the relationship between poverty and biological markers of toxic stress is accumulating. This study synthesizes the empirical evidence of the relationship between poverty and biomarkers of toxic stress. : We conduct a systematic literature review using PRISMA guidelines to assess the relationship between poverty and toxic stress.