Welcome to NCHH's Healthy Homes Resources Page
Healthy Homes Maintenance Checklist [pdf]
Steps for Creating a Healthier Home: Costs for a Typical Two-story Single-family Home [pdf]
Air cleaning devices for the home - frequently asked questions - California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board [pdf]
Ubiquitous mold, a particular problem in bathrooms, kitchens, and basements, can trigger asthma attacks, the eight most common condition suffered by Americans. Click here to read the article, "Healthy homes harbor healthy households."
Factsheets for a healthy home (all in pdf format)
Allergy Factsheet
Radon Factsheet
Safe Pest Control Factsheet
Carbon Monoxide Factsheet
Mold Factsheet
Home Safety Factsheet
Asthma Factsheet
Lead Factsheet
Help yourself to a Healthy Home: Asthma and Allergies
Help yourself to a Healthy Home: Mold
Help yourself to a Healthy Home: Pesticides
Help yourself to a Healthy Home: Indoor Air Quality
Healthy and Affordable Housing: Practical Recommedations for Buidling, Renovating, and Maintaining Housing (all in pdf format)
Read This: Before You Design, Build or Renovate
Read This: Before You Move In
Read This: Before You Turn Over a Unit
Healthy and affordable Housing: Practical Recommendations for Meeting Your Ventilation Requirements
Read This: Before You Ventilate [pdf]
List of Healthy Housing Assessment Tools
Provides information about tools used to assess healthy homes hazards. Over 40 tools are listed, along with information about the hazards they cover and how to access them.
The Tenant's Guide to Mold
This About Your House is for people living in rented apartments or houses. An apartment can be a multi-unit building or a suite in a house. Cleaning up mold can either be the tenant's or the landlord's responsibility - or a responsibility shared by the tenant and the landlord.
Creating Affordable, Allergen-Free Housing: What Rural Developers Need to Know
Rural developers engaged in the rehabilitation of older homes and the construction of new homes have an ideal opportunity to create healthier housing for their clients.
Triclosan Hazards...Continued- Trade group misleads on common antibacterial agent [pdf] (Article provided by Beyond Pesticides from Pesticides and You.)
Healthy Homes Research
Providence Healthy Homes Study
Milwaukee Healthy Homes Study
The Relationship Between Housing and Health:Children at Risk Workshop
Healthier Homes, Stronger Families
Healthy Homes Training:
Healthy Homes Training Center and Network
Creating healthier housing promotes the healthy growth and development of children and has the potential to save billions in health care costs. Find out about the latest healthy housing research and learn about efforts to advance healthy housing policy.
Click here to go to the National Healthy Homes Clearinghouse website
Choosing Flooring for Affordable Housing: Healthier and Cost Effective Options
The flooring options table and flooring matrix were developed for the Asthma Regional Council with support from ERT Associates, ICF Consulting, and Harvard/MIT graduate students.
Flooring materials today are more varied than ever before, offering a large range of practical, aesthetic, and ecological options. All choices have advantages and considerations, and especially in affordable housing, have pricing implications. With this multitude of flooring options, affordable housing developers can choose flooring that positively affects health, cost, energy and the environment. Although a range of health concerns are considered this document focuses on reducing conditions that can trigger asthma and respiratory problems. It does not explicitly address worker exposures.
The Healthier and Cost Effective Residential Flooring Matrix is a detailed index of flooring options outlining health implications particularly for asthma, costs, maintenance considerations, and pollution created during flooring production. The table summarizes traditional, better and best flooring options. The options presented are based on interviews with affordable housing developers and building science experts. The "Better" option seeks to reduce asthma triggers by increasing the use of smooth and cleanable surfaces that are less likely to retain allergens that trigger asthma (moisture and dust), and are easier to maintain while still maintaining first cost affordability. Moving from "Better" to "Best," a greater emphasis is placed on life cycle costs instead of first costs, and overall environmental impacts during occupancy and production of the flooring material.
http://www.asthmaregionalcouncil.org/about/Flooring_matrix.pdf
Healthy Homes Publications
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