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Integration For Housing, Healthcare

The Unites States should merge its healthcare system with its housing system to assure seniors they will have a more balanced life in their most vulnerable years. That’s among the findings in a new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC).

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Housing Key To Health Outcomes

A new study from the Pew Charitable Trusts introduces the concept of health impact assessments (HIAs) and explains how such studies can improve decisions about projects, policies, and programs in the areas of housing and community development.

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Green/Healthy Homes Initiative Expands

The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI), a grantee of the Social Innovation Fund’s (SIF) Pay for Success program, establishes itself as an important new wrinkle on the community development landscape. It achieves this status by linking the advancement of public health

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(HEALTHY HOMES) $2.5 Million for Healthy Homes Studies

Nonprofits, state, local and tribal governments can compete for $2.5 million in HUD's FY 2012 Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program. Applications are due by Jan. 31, 2012

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(LEAD PAINT) Lead Grants Head To 25 States

Forty-eight projects in 25 states designed to lower the risk of lead paint poisoning share $127 million in grant awards from HUD. The money will be applied to three HUD programs: Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control, Lead

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(LEAD GRANTS) October Deadline For Lead Grants

State, local governments and Native American tribes have until Oct. 15 to compete for $62 million of HUD's Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Program grants. Cities with the greatest need can compete

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(GRANTS) Multiple Healthy Home Grants Awarded

Health of families living in low-income housing in Boston will be tested under a healthy homes program financed by HUD. The Boston Public Health Commission receives more than $1.6 million

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(CHINESE DRYWALL) New Treatment for Chinese Drywall

A Nevada-based firm introduces a new treatment to repair buildings constructed with tainted Chinese drywall. The company's coating system, called AbShield, is a water-based coating specifically formulated to address drywall off-gassing and related odors.

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(CHINESE DRYWALL) Feds Set First Criteria for Defective Drywall Diagnosis

HUD and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are defining exactly how homeowners can document that they have problematic Chinese drywall in their homes.  Homeowners and inspectors must be able to see a blackening of copper electrical wiring or air conditioning evaporator coils, a...

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(LAWSUIT) Seniors Suit Cites Toxic Drywall

A publicly traded homebuilder with significant Chinese drywall problems in its Florida active adult communities files a lawsuit against 14 insurance providers in hopes they will cover drywall

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