Join the Growing Number of Public & Affordable Housing Providers with No-Smoking Policies
Download "The Benefits of No-Smoking Policies in Affordable Housing" with quotes from industry leaders throughout Oregon.
Oregon Trend: 19 out of 22 Oregon housing authorities have now implemented no-smoking policies (thirteen of these cover all their properties). Clackamas County will become 19th on the list as their policy goes into effect April 2012. See details of the statewide policies.
National Trend: As of January 2011, at least 230 local housing authorities had adopted no-smoking policies for some or all of their apartment buildings, with about 214 being adopted since the beginning of January 2005; an average of about 2.9 per month. That constitutes an increase in the number of housing authorities with no-smoking policies of 1300% in 72 months. See the updated list.
TOOLS for adopting no-smoking policies:
- Questions to ask yourselves
- Analysis of unit renovation costs for non-smokers vs smokers
- No-smoking policy plan options & talking points developed by PNRC-NAHRO/CHEF
- Resident survey- logistics, tools and examples
- Housing Authority of Portland's steps and key documents
- Nampa Housing Authority's no-smoking policy
- Announcing the rule to residents - Five Reasons We Are Adopting a No-Smoking Policy
- Property Manager Training - "Making No-Smoking Rules Work in Affordable Housing"
- Enforcement Toolkit - steps, signs, sample warning letters
- Tobacco Quit Line Referral form - link your residents who want to quit with this free resource
- Medical Marijuana - information to help you decide what to do about this
- How can public health partners support this work?
- More landlord tools
What HUD says about no-smoking policies:
- HUD issued a statement 7/17/09 "strongly encouraging public housing authorities to implement no-smoking policies in some or all of their public housing units."
- HUD issued another statement 9/15/10 "to encourage owners and management agents participating in one of the Multifamily Rental Assistance Programs...to implement smoke-free housing policies in some or all of the properties they own or manage."
- 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."
