National Center for Healthy Housing

The next National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 from 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, location to be determined. Please RSVP to Ruth Lindberg.

The First Annual National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition Meeting took place on May 24 and 25, 2010 in Washington, DC. It was a very successful event!  Click here to see the Meeting Agenda and Provisional Business Meeting Minutes.

The Coalition discussed their policy priorities during the Annual Meeting. Briefing papers were developed for three topics:
Integrating Energy Efficiency and Healthy Housing
Financing Healthy Housing
Creating Healthier Housing Through Standards

The Coalition held three group discussions (dubbed "Salons"), in order to surface policy priorities for the coming year as well as discuss previous priorities. Each discussion was led by a facilitator and techical expert for that topic.

• Notes from the Energy and Health Salon discussion
• Notes from the Healthy Housing Financing Salon discussion
• Notes from the Codes and Standards Salon discussion

The following presentations were given at the Annual Meeting:

• Dan Newman, Executive Director, Sustainable Resources Center
• Kathleen Hogan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy
• Sharunda Buchanan, Director, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, CDC
• Kim Foreman, Education and Outreach Director, Environmental Health Watch

If you are not yet a member of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition, but would like to join, please sign up using our online membership form.