Public Housing Smoking Ban

[Benton]

(11-13-2015, 01:22 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I am pretty sure the vast majority of public housing units have children. Maybe Phil can give us more info on this.  So there should be no smoking if children are present.

But even if second hand smoke was not a problem, there is still a legitimates safety issue.  Smoking is the number one cause death, injury, and property damage from house fires.

And this is not an expensive enforcement requirement like drug tests.  I doubt there would be any added costs for investigation or enforcement.  Tenants would just be subject to eviction if they get caught.

When I first moved out of my parent's house my roommate and I applied for an apartment at a housing complex. Our thinking was there are tons of single broke girls. The guy laughed at us. We were just two 19 year old guys with no kids, no social aide or anything like that, so the rent wasn't adjusted. It was about 50% higher than most of the 2 bedroom apartments in our area.