Healthier Homes, Stronger Families:
Public Policy Approaches to Healthy Housing

Currently, six million families in the United States live in substandard housing. Recognizing the deleterious effects such housing has on children's health and family stability, researchers, practitioners, policy makers and community groups are coming together to develop and deliver housing-based health solutions.

The presentations below were given at a national symposium hosted by The Enterprise Foundation and the National Center for Healthy Housing to develop a public policy agenda for advancing healthier homes for low-income families. The symposium "Healthier Homes, Stronger Families: Public Policy Approaches to Healthy Housing," took place on June 2, 2004, in downtown Washington, D.C. and was funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. A follow-up report will be issued this fall. Click here to read the follow-up report: "Healthy Housing, Healthy Families, Toward a National Agenda for Affordable Healthy Homes.".

Links Between Housing Policy and Health (Powerpoint format, file size 223k)
Links Between Housing Policy and Health (Acrobat pdf format, file size 443k)
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD, MPA-URP, Assistant Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Society, Human Development and Health

EPA's Proposed IAQ Label for Homes (Powerpoint format, file size 21,101k)
EPA's Proposed IAQ Label for Homes (Acrobat pdf format, file size 1,309k)
Sam Rashkin, R.A., National Director, ENERGY STAR for homes

The Role of Laws and Regulations in Healthy Homes (Powerpoint format, file size 339k)
The Role of Laws and Regulations in Healthy Homes (Acrobat pdf format, file size 331k)
Don Ryan, Executive Director, Alliance for Healthy Homes

Creating Change (Powerpoint format, file size 1,611k)
Creating Change (Acrobat pdf format, file size 255k)
Ellen R. Tohn, MCP, ERT Associates

Health and Housing Interventions: What Do We Know? Is it Enough?
(Powerpoint format, file size 44k)
Health and Housing Interventions: What Do We Know? Is it Enough?
(Acrobat pdf format, file size 87k)
Megan Sandel, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center

Residential Hazards in Children--A Neglected Public Health Problem
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Residential Hazards in Children: A Neglected Public Health Problem
(Acrobat pdf format, file size 604k)
Bruce Lanphear, M.D., MPH, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

For more information, contact Rebecca Morley at 443.539.4159 rmorley@centerforhealthyhousing.org or Stockton Williams at 202.543.4599 swilliams@enterprisefoundation.org.

You may download the following documents in Acrobat (pdf) format.

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Agenda

Attendee list

Framing Paper

Agenda

Attendee list