Turning now to some medical news.

An organization with the mission to improve health outcomes for those living with HIV has expanded its outreach by creating affordable housing for medically vulnerable Kentuckians.

Kentucky Public Health Commissioner Dr. Stephen Stack spoke at the first fundraising event for the initiative, telling the crowd housing is health care.

There's so many circumstances where people are such at risk because they just don't have a roof over their head.

People living in stable housing, stable, affordable housing have much better chances of good health outcomes in their health care.

There's a direct correlation between those two things.

I am a firm believer in the housing first approach.

I really deeply believe housing is medicine and housing is health care.

That when someone doesn't have a stable place to stay, when they don't have a safe place to stay, when they don't have a place to get proper rest, where they can't store medications, where they can't have proper nutrition, you don't have a chance at having a healthy life.

You don't you don't even have a fighting chance of any sort when you're struggling just to get by with sheltering yourself, let alone dealing with all the other necessities in life.

We're short of affordable housing in Kentucky, so we're trying to raise money and raise support for building and creating new housing units.

The greatest need here is for people that are medically vulnerable.

Sometimes just one medical crisis away from not being able to afford their daily living needs next year and then the next month.

So the key is to get people housed and then work with them on their critical needs over time.

Able afford to be safe, supportive, secure housing.

During my recovery and convalescence.

That outcome change for better with Avon when they took the lead in my aftercare.

I was able to thrive and heal more deeply.

Their support provided me the groundwork that helped me restructure, re-energize and refocus the basic needs platform that increased my capacity to care more fully and independently from myself.

I don't know that we spend enough time talking about the cost for creating housing.

It's not cheap, so there's a lot of resources and enables doing this event today so that we can raise critical funds and make that contribution as well.

Able Kentucky Open Stonewall Terrace, its first affordable housing development for medically vulnerable individuals.

Last year.