SSC2011_Rebecca Morley PPT

Beyond Energy Efficiency: Healthy Homes and Communities
Rebecca Morley
Executive Director, NCHH

Costs of environmental illness:
All diseases: 76.6 billion
Lead poisoning: $50.9 billion
Autism: $7.9 billion
Intellectual disability: $5.4 billion
Exposure to mercury (methyl mercury): $5.1 billion
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: $5.0 billion
Asthma: $2.2billion
Childhood cancer cost: $95.0 million
3.5% of health care expenditures
Source: Trasande L, Liu Y. Reducing the staggering costs of environmental disease in children. Health Aff. 2011 May;30(5):863-70.

Health consequences of inadequate housing are substantial.
Indoor dampness/mold
Home injury
Crowding
Indoor cold
Traffic noise
Second-hand smoke
Radon
Lead
CO
Formaldehyde
Indoor smoke from solid fuel
Housing quality
www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/142077/e95004.pdf

Benefits of Housing Upgrades
Environmental health
Vaccines
For every $1 spent there is a benefit of $5.30-$16.50
For every $1 spent to reduce lead hazards there is a benefit of $17-$220
For every $1 spent on asthma interventions there is a benefit of $36.

Green and Healthy Renovationof Affordable Housing
Source: Public Health Reports / 2011 Supplement 1 / Volume 126

Common Green and Healthy Rehab Elements
Low-VOC adhesives, paints & coatings
Ventilation: ASHRAE 62.2
Integrated pest management
No carpet in wet areas
Energy Star fans exhausted to exterior

Adult Health Changes

Child Health Changes

Specific Housing Condition Changes

Environmental Testing-MN Green

frameworks

‘‘Livable Communities Act of 2011’’
Introduced by Senator Robert Menendez(D-NJ)
Promotes livable communities through sustainable infrastructure for transportation, affordable housing, healthy housing, land use and economic development
Authorizes the HUD Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities
Authorizes Regional Planning and Community Challenge grants
Adds a new Healthy Homes section

Tools for Incorporating Health into Housing and Community Development
EPA Indoor Environment Protocols
Healthy Development Measurement Tool
Health Impact Assessment

Intended for voluntary adoption by:
Weatherization assistance programs,
Federally funded housing programs
Private sector home performance contracting organizations
Others working on residential retrofit or remodeling efforts
www.epa.gov/iaq/pdfs/epa_retrofit_protocols_draft_110910.pdf

Healthy Development Measurement Tool
100+ community-level measures
Menus of policy and best practices
Criteria for development projects
Supporting public health evidence
www.thehdmt.org
Source: San Francisco Department of Public Health

Health Impact Assessment
A combination of procedures, methods and tools that systematically judges the potential, and sometimes unintended, effects of a policy, plan, program or project on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population.
A Health Impact Assessment Toolkit: www.humanimpact.org

The Process
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Conclusion
Housing related disease and injuries are costly
The return on investment for building healthier homes and communities is considerable
Practical tools are available to housing and community development professionals to make communities more livable, healthy and sustainable.

“For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.”--- Jim Rouse

Rebecca Morley
National Center for Healthy Housing
in Columbia, MD and Washington DC
rmorley@nchh.org
www.nchh.org
(t) 443.539.4159

SSC2011_Rebecca Morley PPT

by National Housing Conference & the Center for Housing Policy on Oct 03, 2011

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