NEWS
Syracuse, NY – Today, Mayor Stephanie Miner and Onondaga County representatives signed a compact supporting efforts to make the Greater Syracuse area a leader in healthy homes. The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) Greater Syracuse is a comprehensive approach to align health, safety, lead hazard reduction, energy efficiency and weatherization interventions in low to moderate income homes.
Atlanta, GA – The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) and five key partners were recognized for collectively working to fulfill its 2012 Commitment to Action to the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) America to increase access to healthy, safe and energy efficient homes in America’s low income communities.
San Antonio, TX – The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative applauds U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro’s release of HUD’s Lead-Safe Homes, Lead-Free Kids Toolkit, and releases its National Strategy for Action to end childhood lead poisoning.
Austin, TX, April 5, 2016 – Today the Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) honored Ruth Ann Norton of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative by naming her the 2016 recipient of the Tony Woods Award for Excellence in Advancing the Home Performance Industry, at the ACI National Home Performance Conference in Austin, Texas.
This spring the Building Performance Institute, Inc. (BPI) and Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) will introduce the Healthy Home Evaluator (HHE) credential to the nation’s home performance, weatherization and healthy housing workforce, with the goal of breaking the link between unhealthy housing and unhealthy families through home performance interventions.