Healthy Homes
Goal: Set in place the infrastructure for healthy homes by 2008.
- Collaboration-building with partners for healthy homes
- City of Greensboro’s Lead Hazard Control program
- City of Greensboro’s housing code enforcement program
- Guilford County Health Department’s lead poisoning prevention program
- FaithAction International House’s safe housing program
- Weatherization program
- Habitat for Humanity’s home repair program
- Senior Resources of Guilford
- Greensboro Neighborhood Congress
- North Carolina A&T State University
- Moses Cone Hospital System respiratory therapists
- Housing assessments with resident education
- Outreach about lead hazards, asthma triggers, rotten roofs and floors
- Education about ways to clean, repair responsibilities, tenant rights
- Landlord/contractor education
- Information for landlords and contractors about disclosure requirements
- Tips on effective ways to make housing safer
- Public awareness campaign
- Housing Summit, bus tour, presentations to groups
- Quarterly newsletters, information through the media
- Home repair referrals
- Assistance with applications for homeowner repairs
- Data collection/analysis/presentation
- Quarterly updates in newsletter on current “scorecard” of unsafe houses (identified but not yet repaired)
- Advocacy about code enforcement
- Participation in committees with code enforcement inspectors
Accomplishments:
- Helped make lead paint a major issue through public awareness campaign
- Helped create Housing Greensboro, a homeowner repair program, in partnership with Habitat
- Helped strengthen “repair or demolish” orders so that owners are repairing
- Helped encourage responsible landlords to repair homes proactively