Asthma is a long-term condition that affects breathing for about 25 million people in America. Where you live, work, learn, and play can all affect your asthma, but the right steps can help you breathe easier.
Source: HUD Healthy Homes
About 25 million Americans suffer from asthma, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This chronic condition is so common, that even if you don’t have it yourself, you probably know someone—a friend, a colleague, a child—who does. Healthcare providers and patients have many tools for managing asthma, but keeping the disease under control can still be challenging.
The HUD Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH) has funding available to help you and your community:
- Healthy Homes Production Grant Program – part of HUD’s overall Healthy Homes Initiative launched in 1999. The program takes a comprehensive approach to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. Latest NOFO. (FY2024 NOFO Coming Soon!)
- Healthy Homes Technical Studies – the overall goal of this program is to advance the recognition and control of priority residential health and safety hazards and more closely examine the link between housing and health. Latest NOFO. (FY2024 NOFO Coming Soon!)
Resources
Home Assessment Checklist – Co-branded with our federal partners, CDC and EPA. The checklist is intended for use as a guide for trained home visitors to start a dialogue with the residents to develop a tailored action plan to reduce environmental triggers of asthma. English Spanish
Home Assessment Checklist Training – developed by CDC, EPA, and HUD. It guides home visitors in identifying environmental asthma triggers most commonly found in homes. Slides
Guide to Sustaining Effective Asthma Homes Intervention Program – describe how effective in-home asthma interventions are coordinated, supported, and funded. Guide
Home Assessment Checklist – Co-branded with our federal partners, CDC and EPA. The checklist is intended for use as a guide for trained home visitors to start a dialogue with the residents to develop a tailored action plan to reduce environmental triggers of asthma. English Spanish
Home Assessment Checklist Training – developed by CDC, EPA, and HUD. It guides home visitors in identifying environmental asthma triggers most commonly found in homes. Slides
Guide to Sustaining Effective Asthma Homes Intervention Program – describe how effective in-home asthma interventions are coordinated, supported, and funded. Guide
