11-12-2015, 07:17 PM
Apparently, HUD announced today their intent to ban smoking in public housing.
Here is the article from the Washington Post on the announcement: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/11/12/hud-proposes-smoking-ban-in-public-housing-citing-dangers-of-secondhand-smoke/
So, what do our regular forum goers say on this front? Please refrain from the "HUD shouldn't exist!" banter and discuss this as a HUD does exist, public housing is going to continue, and this is a new stipulation on living there. Should this or should this not be a law?
I know that our local public housing authority has already banned smoking on their premises. They even have cameras for enforcement in the outdoor areas. While I know there was a lot of grumbling, it has been a good move and has reduced costs for our housing authority in cleanup as well as reduced insurance rates.
Here is the article from the Washington Post on the announcement: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/11/12/hud-proposes-smoking-ban-in-public-housing-citing-dangers-of-secondhand-smoke/
Quote:The government is seeking to ban smoking in all of the nation’s 1.2 million public housing units, the latest step in a decades-long crackdown on tobacco products that help kill hundreds of thousands of Americans each year.
In its proposed rule, announced Thursday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development would require more than 3,100 public housing agencies to go smoke-free within several years. The agencies must design policies prohibiting lit tobacco products in all living units, indoor common areas, administrative offices and in all outdoor areas near housing and administrative office buildings, HUD officials said.
“We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases,” HUD Secretary Julián Castro said in a statement announcing the measure. “This proposed rule will help improve the health of more than 760,000 children and help public housing agencies save $153 million every year in healthcare, repairs and preventable fires.”
So, what do our regular forum goers say on this front? Please refrain from the "HUD shouldn't exist!" banter and discuss this as a HUD does exist, public housing is going to continue, and this is a new stipulation on living there. Should this or should this not be a law?
I know that our local public housing authority has already banned smoking on their premises. They even have cameras for enforcement in the outdoor areas. While I know there was a lot of grumbling, it has been a good move and has reduced costs for our housing authority in cleanup as well as reduced insurance rates.
