About the National Center for Healthy Housing
Our Mission: To create healthy and safe homes for children through proven and practical steps.
National Center for Healthy Housing is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation based in Columbia, Maryland, dedicated to developing and promoting practical methods to protect children from residential environmental hazards while preserving the supply of affordable housing. NCHH has over a decade of experience conducting applied research, program evaluation, technical assistance, training, outreach, and case management focused on reducing the health consequences of indoor exposures. NCHH's staff of 12 includes housing, health, and environmental professionals with expertise in biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental health, public health, housing policy, and industrial hygiene. NCHH:
- Works with a broad array of stakeholders including federal, state, and local agencies, universities, and private research institutions and has published and contributed to nearly fifty articles and reports on environmental health and housing issues.
- Conducts research and demonstration projects that focus on assessing and demonstrating low-cost, effective home hazard assessment and intervention methods as well as public education and outreach.
- Anchors the National Healthy Homes Training Center, which offers training in healthy housing principles to housing, health, and environmental practitioners across the country.
- Develops standards, guidelines, and approaches to rehabilitate and construct housing to meet core healthy homes principles.
Childhood lead poisoning affects almost one million children across the country yet is entirely preventable. Early efforts to address this problem failed largely because responses had been uncoordinated and deemed impractical. The Center has worked to develop, validate, and promote the nationwide adoption of cost-effective and practical strategies that will sharply reduce the number of lead poisoned children.
The lessons learned from lead can benefit the studies of other housing related health problems. Residential hazards often have common causes and solutions. Moisture deteriorates paint, which may elevate lead levels in the home. Moisture also increases mold, mildew and other allergens that aggravate childhood asthma. The National Center for Healthy Housing works to coordinate efforts to solve problems like these, providing more efficient and economical solutions to housing related health risks that can benefit more children in less time.
The Center sponsors research on methods to reduce residential environmental hazards and to scientifically assess risks.The Center also seeks to find scientifically valid and practical strategies that make homes safe from these hazards, to alert low income families to these risks and help them protect their children and see those strategies implemented through standards and programs established by and through insurers, lenders, federal and state laws and regulations, community organizations and the courts.
The Center was created and funded by the Fannie Mae Foundation and is sponsored by The Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning. Funding for the Center is provided by grants from the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Freddie Mac Foundation and other foundations, contracts with various state and local agencies, and additional funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The National Center for Healthy Housing
10320 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 500
Columbia, MD 21044
Our phone number is 410.992.0712, and our fax number is 443.539.4150. You may also contact us at our toll-free number: 1.877.312.3046
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The National Center for Healthy Housing 10320 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 500 Columbia, MD 21044
410.992.0712 / Fax: 443.539.4150
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