Healthy Homes Demonstration Program
The purpose of the Healthy Homes Demonstration Program is to develop, demonstrate and promote cost-effective, preventive measures to correct multiple safety and health hazards in the home environment that produce serious diseases and injuries in children. The Healthy Homes Demonstration Program is a part of HUD’s Healthy Homes Initiative. The Healthy Homes Initiative (HHI) was established by Congress in 1999 to develop and implement a program of research and demonstration projects that would address multiple housing-related problems affecting the health of children.” The Healthy Homes Initiative (HHI) departs from the more traditional approach of attempting to correct one hazard at a time (e.g., asbestos, radon). The HHI builds upon HUD's existing housing-related health and safety issues, including lead hazard control, building structural safety, electrical safety, and fire protection to address multiple childhood diseases and injuries, such as asthma, mold-induced illness, carbon monoxide poisoning, and other conditions, related to housing in a more coordinated fashion.
HUD is interested in reducing health threats to the maximum number of residents, especially children, in a cost efficient manner. HUD will award demonstration projects that implement housing assessment, maintenance, renovation and construction techniques to identify and correct housing-related illness and injury risk factors, and disseminate healthy homes information and replicate successful interventions. Eligible applicants for the Healthy Homes Demonstration Program include not-for-profit institutions, and for-profit firms located in the U.S., state and local governments, and federally recognized Indian Tribes are eligible to apply. For-profit firms are not allowed to include a fee in the cost proposal (i.e., no profit can be made from the project). Federal agencies and federal employees are not eligible to apply for this program.
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Funding Category: |
Funds to develop, demonstrate and promote cost-effective, preventive measures to correct multiple safety and health hazards in the home environment that produce serious diseases and injuries in children. |
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Target Population: |
Children and individuals at risk of serious diseases and injuries due to safety and health hazards in the home environment. |
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Funding Available: |
In FY 2002, approximately $5 million of funds. |
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Application Information: |
You may obtain an application kit from the
SuperNOFA Information Center at 1-800-HUD-8929, or the TTY number at
1-800-HUD-2209. When requesting
an application kit, please refer to the Healthy
Homes Demonstration Program.
Please be sure to provide your name, address (including zip code), and
telephone number (including area code).
Alternatively, you may obtain an application kit by downloading it
from the Internet at www.hud.gov. |
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Contact: |
You may contact Ms. Ellen Taylor, Planning and
Standards Division, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, telephone
(202) 755-1785, extension 116, or Ms. Curtissa Coleman, Grants Officer,
extension 119. (These are not
toll-free numbers.) Hearing- and
speech-impaired persons may access the above telephone numbers via TTY by
calling the toll-free Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. |
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