Join the Growing Number of
Housing Authorities
with No-Smoking Policies
HUD issued a joint statement with
Office of Public & Indian Housing
and Office of Healthy Homes & Lead Hazard Control
"strongly encouraging public housing authorities to implement no-smoking policies in some or all of their public housing units."
Read the notice issued 7/17/09
and Office of Healthy Homes & Lead Hazard Control
"strongly encouraging public housing authorities to implement no-smoking policies in some or all of their public housing units."
Read the notice issued 7/17/09
What other public housing authorities are doing it?
- The Housing Authority of Portland, OR is adopting a No-Smoking policy for all of its public housing units (37 properties/1993 units). They share their steps and key documents.
- Read the article in the June 2009 edition of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council News -page 9. Local public housing execs very happy about their new no-smoking policies share their stories -- People are even quitting smoking!
- See results of a PNRC-NAHRO regional survey about who's adopting No-Smoking policies in the Pacific Northwest.
- As of April 2009 at least 110 local housing authorities in the U.S.had adopted no-smoking policies on some or all of their apartment buildings. That represents an increase of 650% in the past 52 months. See the updated list.
How can my agency move ahead?
- Go to Landlord Tools
- Go to the Smokefree Environments Law Project website for a host of applicable information. See Jim Bergman, JD's presentation to the 2008 NAHRO National Conference in San Antonio, "Up in Smoke - the Two Sides of Smoke Free Housing."
- Contact your local health department or tobacco prevention program. Find your contact in Oregon.
What else does HUD say about it?
- Read " Analysis of the Authority of Housing Authorities and Section 8 multi-unit housing owners to adopt smoke-free policies in their residential units."
- Read "The Federal Fair Housing Act and the protection of persons who are disabled by secondhand smoke in most private and public housing."
