Healthy Housing

Vision:
All Rhode Islanders have a right to housing that supports their growth, development, and physical and mental health, and provides the opportunity to achieve a positive quality of life throughout the entire lifespan.

What is healthy housing?
According to the National Center for Healthy Housing, healthy housing is housing that is dry, clean, pest-free, ventilated, safe, without contaminants and is maintained.

Seven Steps to Healthy Housing:

1. Keep it dry
2. Keep it clean
3. Keep it pest free
4. Keep it safe
5. Keep the air moving
6. Keep it poison free
7. Keep it maintained

Program reports:
Healthy Housing Data Book 2008
Healthy Housing Five Year Workplan 2008
Healthy Housing Collaborative Activity Report 2008 | 2007

Read the “Healthy Housing: Why Rhode Island should invest in the vision” report  prepared by the RI Department of Health’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program in partnership with the “Healthy Housing Collaborative”, a group of representatives from several health and housing agencies.