Healthy Housing in the News - Green & Healthy Homes Initiative

Hospitals Find Asthma Hot Spots More Profitable To Neglect Than Fix

Washington Post

Summerville and her family live in the worst asthma hot spot in Baltimore: ZIP code 21223, where decrepit houses, rodents and bugs trigger the disease and where few community doctors work to prevent asthma emergencies One mom there wields a BB gun to keep rats from her asthmatic child Residents of...

December 6, 2017

Asthma

Memphis Coalition Signs on With The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative

Memphis Daily News

The National Center for Healthy Housing ranks the Memphis MSA worst out of 45 metro areas for unhealthy housing Subpar housing has been linked to poor health outcomes, high utility bills, evictions, and lower academic achievement for children who have lead poisoning or asthma Poisoning caused by...

December 1, 2017

GHHI Welcomes New Partner Site Pittsburgh/Allegheny County

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

GHHI welcomed Pittsburgh/Allegheny County as a new partner site on Friday, July 21st Pittsburgh marks the 19th partner site established by GHHI The partnership will allow GHHI to give guidance and technical assistance to government, non-profit, and for-profit partners to address environmental...

July 24, 2017

Carson Backs Sale of Public Housing Units

The Baltimore Sun

Dr. Ben Carson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said Thursday he wants to push a proposal to significantly expand a program that allows cities such as Baltimore to sell public housing units to private developers in order to raise money for repairs.

June 30, 2017

Ben Carson Understands the Link Between Health and Housing

The Baltimore Sun

Today, during the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) National Healthy Homes Month, Secretary Ben Carson will travel to Baltimore to advocate for safe, lead-free and healthy homes in a city that has faced significant challenges with hazardous housing and keeping kids healthy.

June 29, 2017