People with asthma should have access to affordable, safe, healthy, and climate-resilient homes and neighborhoods. "Homes" include apartments and other multi-unit housing, group homes, shelters and institutionalized settings, as well as single-family houses. Homes often contain known asthma triggers, including secondhand smoke, dampness and mold, cockroaches and dust mites. Harmful pollutants generated from the use of e-cigarettes and the combustion of tobacco products, wood and fossil fuels for heating and cooking should be eliminated from homes. Housing codes are public health tools that can and should be used to improve indoor environmental quality in homes of residents who have asthma.
Here are the four housing-related policy recommendations in the National Asthma Public Policy Agenda.
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