This website has resources to help you plan for, implement, and build support for smoke-free policies for Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and Multifamily federally assisted properties. HUD strongly encourages Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) and all multifamily housing owners/agents to implement smoke-free policies in all their properties. Furthermore, December 5, 2016, HUD published a final rule for each Public Housing Agency administering low-income, conventional public housing to initiate a smoke-free policy. The effective date of the Rule is February 3, 2017, and it provides an 18-month implementation period. All PHAs must have a smoke-free policy in place by July 31, 2018.
If you have questions that are not addressed by the information below, you can send an email to smokefreepublichousing@hud.gov.
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Smoke-Free Multiunit Resource Bank Here you will find tools and resources to assist you and answer common questions
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Information on Final Rule for Public Housing Agencies CLICK HERE to view the Final rule. CLICK HERE for the press release |
Hot TopicsHUD Announces Final Rule to Institute Smoke-Free Public Housing Nationwide Public Housing Agencies with Smoke-Free Policies as of 9/30/2016
Popular Videos*NEW* To view a brief video from Boston featuring housing authority residents' support of smoke-free housing, click here!
Public and Private Affordable Housing Providers’ views on implementing and enforcing smoke-free housing policies. Click here What housing providers need to know to go smoke-free. This video covers benefits and obstacles and how to address them. It presents tips to enforcing the policy and shows how a resident family of smokers adapted to the policy.
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Boston Public Health Commission
This video from the Boston Public Health Commission shows a clinician discussing her patient’s successful attempt to quit smoking by using resources provided by the Commission and Boston Housing Authority’s policy to go smoke-free:
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 Prohibiting smoking in public housing would save lives AND $153 million annually |
