Ohio Healthy Homes News July 2016

Upcoming Events

Green & Healthy Homes Initiative Webinar, August 17, 2-3 pm. Part II:

Communication Strategies and Partnership Development for Healthy and Energy Efficient Multi-Family Housing. Strategies on how to combine stakeholders in the energy and health sectors in order to create the infrastructure for generating healthy, affordable homes.

Community Development and the Social Determinants of Health Symposium, August 30, Cleveland, National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations (NACEDA). Symposium is part of a three day NACEDA summit. Learn about concrete, successful community development examples that improve health outcomes in low and moderate-income communities. Registration fee is $100.

City of Columbus and Ohio Department of Health are sponsoring healthy homes trainings: Healthy Homes Essentials for Environmental Professionals on August 16 and Healthy Homes Rating System Course, August 17-18. Contact Phillip Bouton at 614-645-6226.

Save the Date: Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force 9th Annual Summit, September 9, 9 am - 4 pm, Ohio Department of Transportation, Columbus.

Save the Date: Cuyahoga County Bed Bug Task Force meeting, October 20, 1 pm. Contact 216-201-2000, Ext 1264 or 1200.

Save the Date: Nurture an Idea Forum, Monday, October 24th, Hilton Cleveland Downtown 3:30 - 7 p.m. Sponsored by Ohio Enterprise (Enterprise Community Partners). Participation is free and open to the public.

Save the Date, 18th Annual Housing Conference, November 8-10, Columbus

Convention Center, sponsored by Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing and the Ohio Housing Finance Agency.

Save the Date, November 30 for the Ohio Healthy Homes Network Fall Forum and November 29 for Healthy Homes Essentials for Environmental Professionals training. Events will be held at the Ohio Department of Transportation, Columbus.

Save the Date, Housing Ohio 2017, Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio (COHHIO), April 10-12, 2017.

Please send upcoming events to OHHN by the 15th of the month.

State News Articles

Health

Steubenville city council supports health department merger

Health leaders to mull merger idea

Housing

Fifth round of hardest hit funds allows OHFA to continue the fight against foreclosure and blight, awards funds to 18 counties

Dayton housing authority, city of Dayton receive HUD Choice Neighborhood Grant

Summer Agency Update - Ohio Housing Finance Agency

Lead

Ex-Sebring water operator pleads innocent

Erie, Mahoning and Summit Counties Awarded HUD Lead Grants

Sherrod Brown urges Medicaid to fix system that leaves millions of kids untested for lead poisoning

Cleveland to hire more lead poisoning investigators if income tax increase passes

Lead - Toledo

Group favors proposal regarding lead tests, ordinance would demand rental properties built before '78 to be tested

Lawmaker offers new 'lead-safe' proposal

Lead ordinance is about saving children

Suppose it is your child

OHHN News

2016 Fall Forum

Save the Date for the Fall Forum on November 30, "Integrating Housing Management and Development with Health Outcomes", at the Ohio Department of Transportation in Columbus. OHHN will also host the "Healthy Homes Essentials for Environmental Health Professionals" training on November 29 at the same location. Contact Patricia Barnes for more information.

Board Member News

OHHN welcomes Betty Cantley of Lorain to the board. Betty is a member of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition and has advocated on behalf of lead poisoned children for many years.

OHHN Members and Friends:

Has your organization or firm signed the petition for Find It, Fix It, Fund It?

Find It, Fix It, Fund It is an action drive that urges Congress and the Administration to develop and implement a bold, comprehensive national plan to eliminate lead paint hazards and replace lead pipes.

Honor Role

To date, the following organizations from Ohio have signed on:

Cherry St Legacy Project, Mercy St Vincent Medical Center, Toledo

City of Akron, Housing and Community Services

City of Cleveland

Ohio Healthy Homes Network

Take Action

Read the petition for Find it, Fix It, Fund It and sign up your organization today.

National and International News

Aging

Democratic and Republican Platforms Reflect Bipartisan Support for Seniors to Age in Place

Construction

HBCD-free Styrofoam insulation coming to USA

Flexible Polyurethane Foam: Pathways for Optimizing Recycling

Formaldehyde

EPA issues final rule to protect the public from exposure to formaldehyde

Finance

Does Ohio's $2 billion rainy day fund mean there's room to help Ohio cities?

Housing

How a house can shape a child's future

NCHH comments on HUD's proposed rule for assessing voucher-assisted housing

Bending the healthcare cost curve: four policy recommendations for healthy housing

Indoor Air Quality

Knowledge in the Air: The Impact of Green Buildings on Cognitive Function, Slides and Q and A now available from webinar held May 11 by the US EPA

Lead

Less lead in New Orleans soils, children's blood, 10 years after Katrina: study

Castro: There's 'not nearly enough' being done to fight lead poisoning

Using urban pigeons to monitor lead pollution

Children in NYCHA housing test positive for high lead levels in blood from lead paint

Lead rules provide only an 'illusion of safety' pediatricians say

Study: Syracuse has the nation's highest lead poisoning rate

New study reveals high percentages of unsafe blood lead levels among US children

Lead in Water

Why water in schools is so susceptible to lead poisoning

Homebuyers, beware: Lead pipe problems not always required disclosure

Claypool pledges to spend 'whatever it takes' to fix CPS lead in water problems

Chicago residents take action to be rid of lead pipes as fear of toxic water grows

Legislator 'appalled' that NC schools haven't tested for lead in water

Gov. Kate Brown: Schools must share radon, lead results

6 more Michigan public workers charged in Flint lead water crisis

Pesticides

EPA settles with Nevada companies for selling unregistered, misbranded pesticide

Petition calls on EPA to require pesticide companies to disclose data on chemical mixtures

Public Health

Why did a public health guy go to a green charrette?

Tobacco

Tobacco use, involuntary secondhand smoke exposure high in multifamily housing residents

Report: E-cigarette vapor releases cancerous chemicals

Popcorn lung: a dangerous of flavored e-cigarettes

About Us

The mission of the Ohio Healthy Homes Network (OHHN) is to promote healthy, safe and affordable housing for people of all ages. More information is available about OHHN at www.OHHN.org

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