Healthy Housing in the News

Jacquirelyn Aquino is a high-performing member of the St James & St John School track team and has perfect attendance in her classes -- a remarkable turnaround for the 12-year-old girl with asthma She used to get winded climbing a tree, and her mother, Bernice Aquino, often spent days taking...

The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative announced the launch of the Your Healthy Home app, which will help at-risk families identify safety hazards and connect with resources The app will launch in October for iOS and Android Read more in the Baltimore Business Journal

With many Maryland landlords failing to respond to the state's expanded effort to curb childhood lead poisoning, officials are mass-mailing pointed reminders this summer to tens of thousands of property owners to register their rental units or risk being fined Read more in the Baltimore Sun

Gov Larry Hogan's housing secretary will stay in the job despite calls for his ouster over remarks suggesting that mothers might deliberately poison their children with lead to obtain free housing Read more in the Baltimore Sun

Disavowing remarks made by the state's chief housing official, Lt Gov Boyd Rutherford said Saturday that the Hogan administration will not propose any easing of liability for landlords whose tenants' children are harmed by lead paint in rental homes Read more in The Baltimore Sun