Policy Priorities

Our Top Priorities

1. Payment / reimbursement from health care payers including CMS for healthy homes interventions
2. Adoption of Green and Healthy Homes standard that includes removing toxic materials from housing rehabilitation
3. Non-energy benefits (NEBs) of energy efficiency/weatherization work tracked by state and federal programs

Our Legislative Priorities

Communications Kit – LEAD FREE FUTURE Act

LEAD FREE FUTURE Act: Protecting the Next Generation

 

Lead Free Future Act – Sign On Letter

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.

On the Horizon

• Federal adoption of common eligibility standards and aligned federal funding streams and programs
• Standardized green and healthy comprehensive assessments for federally supported housing units, and compulsory inspections prior to private housing sales or transfers
• Expanding scope of healthy homes interventions allowable through the Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program
• Data sharing is allowed and encouraged across federal agencies and programs