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Home Health and
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HUD
Strongly Encourages Non-Smoking Policies in Public Housing
HUD
has published a Notice strongly encouraging Public Housing Authorities
to implement non-smoking policies in some or all of their public
housing units. On July 17, 2009, HUD posted
the Notice issued jointly by the Office of Public and Indian
Housing and the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control.
HUD
Announces $4M in Funding Under FY 2009 NOFA for Healthy Homes
Technical Studies
Cooperative
agreements will fund technical studies to improve existing methods
for detecting and controlling housing-related health and safety
hazards, to develop new methods to detect and control these hazards,
and to improve our knowledge of housing-related health and safety
hazards.
More information is available.
HUD
announces Healthy Homes Strategic Plan
HUD
announces Healthy Homes Strategic Plan to focus the Department's
efforts towards providing healthy homes for all Americans. The
announcement was made in conjunction with the Surgeon General's
"Call to Action to Promote Healthy Homes". HUD, CDC,
and the Surgeon General commited to advance efforts to address
housing-related health hazards confronting families. Read the
Plans below:
HUD
Announces $117M in Funding Under FY 2009 NOFA to Reduce Lead-Based
Paint Hazards
Approximately
$69 million for the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program
and $48 million is available for the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration
Grant Program. More information is
available.
EPA/HUD
Model Renovator Course Lead Safety for Renovation, Repair and
Painting Announced
EPA,
in collaboration with HUD, issue Model RRP course to train renovation,
repair, and painting contractors how to work safely in housing with
lead-based paint and comply with EPA's Renovation, Repair, and Painting
(RRP) Rule, and HUD's Lead Safe Housing Rule. Visit the Renovation,
Repair and Painting (RRP) site for details.
2008
National Healthy Homes Conference presentations are here!
Presentations
from the Building a Framework for Healthy Housing conference are
now available for download.
Updated
PIH Guidance on Lead-Safe Housing Rule and Lead Disclosure Rule
for Field Office Staff and Public Housing Agencies
The
Office of Public and Indian Housing updated its lead regulatory
guidance to field staff by issuing guidance describing how lead
safety is addressed in all of its programs, and by issuing a lead
compliance toolkit for the Housing Choice Voucher Program. Both
documents are on a single PIH
Guidance Web page in the Guidebooks section of HUDclips.
Healthy
Homes for Healthy Kids
HUD is conducting the "Healthy Homes for Healthy
Kids" campaign, a three-year 30-city outreach effort to inform
parents about health and safety hazards in the home. This can include
lead paint, mold, moisture, and pests like mice and cockroaches.
For more information about the campaign, please call (212) 542-7411.
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