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Members of the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition (NSHHC) receive periodic “action alerts” notifying them of current opportunities to learn more about the intersection of health and housing (“Education Action”), secure funding for healthy homes-related activities (“Funding Action”), share information about their experiences working in the healthy homes field (“Information Action”), and advocate for healthy home environments “Advocacy Action”). Recent Action Alerts are listed below. View past action alerts here.
Sign the NSHHC’s Appropriations Letters: Tell Congress to Preserve These Essential Healthy Housing Programs
Advocacy Action. Posted July 21, 2025.
The National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition (NSHHC) is requesting signatures to support appropriation requests and advocate for healthy housing programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Across the country, millions of families are living in unhealthy housing conditions, struggling with issues like broken heating and plumbing systems, damaged or leaking roofs, mold, exposed wiring, and toxic chemicals. Overall, 40% of U.S. homes have at least one significant health or safety risk that places American families at risk. When we do not act to fix inadequate housing, costs pile up for residents and public and private actors in the form of medical bills, lost income, missed days at school and work, compounding and costlier repair needs, and more. Federal programs at agencies, including CDC, EPA, and HUD, provide the essential funding that states and localities need to provide services to their residents and determine the best way to improve housing quality in their communities. States and localities rely on this funding and would need adequate time to prepare and transition in the case of funding or program changes. All these programs return savings to federal and state governments in the form of reduced Medicaid spending, as healthier homes result in healthier people who are less likely to incur medical costs. Investing in healthy, efficient, resilient, affordable homes yields co-benefits that simultaneously advance a range of agendas related to energy, health, jobs, economic development, and more.
In FY26 and beyond, we need to fund federal programs that protect public health, prevent long-term cost burdens, and preserve our national ability to prevent, detect, and respond to issues of poor housing quality. Programs that provide these essential services are currently housed at CDC, EPA, and HUD. Regardless of where the programs ultimately live in the federal organizational chart or what they are called, Congress must maintain or increase funding for all the essential functions currently provided by these federal programs described below. The recent rescissions of other key programs that supported state and local work on healthy homes, lead poisoning prevention, asthma prevention, and indoor air quality add even more urgency to the need to fund these critical functions and activities.
Your signature will help to advocate for increased funding for these vital programs that protect children and others from housing-related health hazards and that support healthy housing.
The letter includes requests for level or increased funding of programs that address lead poisoning, indoor air quality, asthma, radon, and other healthy housing issues at HUD, CDC, and EPA. You can view the letters and agency program breakdowns here:
You can view the letters and agency program breakdowns here:
House letter | Senate letter
These letters will be open for signatures through midnight (PT) [Date TBA], 2025. You can sign either as an organization or an individual.
Sign the letters.
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Get Your State Healthy Housing Profile
The National Center for Healthy Housing is proud to present brand new fact sheets for each of the 50 states, plus Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and a sheet for the U.S. as a whole. Each sheet contains a list of healthy housing statistics tailored for the state, including lead poisoning screenings, asthma prevalence rates, radon levels, carbon monoxide deaths, and falls among older adults. Every fact is hyperlinked to a resource providing more information. The sheets also list federal programs currently funding work in each state.
The fact sheets are ideal tool for educating members of Congress and other elected officials about healthy housing issues in your state. Email sarah@nshhcoalition.org if you’d like more information about how we can help you conduct congressional outreach.
Meet Your Member of Congress
Meeting with policymakers is a vital way both to share stories and information and to represent the diversity of interests that make up the healthy housing community.
Use our guide to holding meetings and events with members of Congress, including materials needed to get your meeting request process started.
Good luck with your outreach efforts, and don’t forget to share any pictures on social media so that we can link to you.
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Latest page update: July 21, 2025.