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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.
Sign the NSHHC’s Letter to the Environmental Protection Agency: Restore Soil Protections for Superfund Sites
Advocacy Action. Posted January 29, 2026.
The National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition (NSHHC) is putting forward a sign-on a letter regarding EPA’s October 2025 directive, which will affect residential soil lead guidance. The NSHHC urges the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider the guidance and restore the protections originally issued in January 2024.
To read the full letter, which includes a description of the guidance and the NSHHC’s comments, click here. Read the EPA’s October 2025 directive here.
You can sign the letter either on behalf of an organization or as an individual. This letter will be open for signatures through 11:59 p.m. (PT) Wednesday, February 11, 2026. You can sign either as an organization or an individual.
Contact Sarah Goodwin at sarah@nshhcoalition.org with any questions or comments.
February 12 (Draft): Letters to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Restore January 2024 Soil Protections for Superfund Sites
Extract: The National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition (NSHHC) is writing you regarding your October 16, 2025, directive updating the Office of Land and Emergency Management’s (OLEM) residential soil lead guidance. We urge EPA to reconsider these factors and restore the January 2024 protections.
Your October directive reversed a January 2024 update to the guidance and, in some cases, set levels that are even less protective than those in place prior to January 2024. This directive weakens long-standing, science-based protections for children, creates inconsistency with federal and state public health standards, and is likely to increase lead exposure risks for families living on and near contaminated sites.
We have three main concerns with the October 2025 guidance:
First, the target level for children’s blood lead should be 3.5 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL), not 5. This target level is important to setting preliminary remediation goals (PRGs) for the cleanup of lead-contaminated residential properties.
The January 2024 guidance used 3.5 µg/dL as the target blood lead level (BLL) where multiple sources of lead contamination are present and 5 µg/dL if the only source was contaminated soil… [more]
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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: January 30, 2026.