Our Legislative Priorities
Support funding for green and healthy homes including:
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and Asthma Control Programs
- U.S. Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Title X Amendments Act (updating Title X, the 1992 act that authorized HUD to make grants to state and local jurisdictions to address lead hazards)
- Greater flexibility to address health and safety hazards beyond lead
- Expanding the eligible grant recipients to nonprofits
- Making it easier and more efficient for families to apply for the HUD grant programs
Social Impact Partnerships Act to foster the creation of public-private partnerships that harness philanthropic and other private-sector investments to scale up scientifically-proven social and public health programs.