Goal SSH-1: A City that encourages the construction and maintenance of safe, sanitary, and health-promoting housing.

POLICY: Elimination of common home pollutants. Encourage the identification and elimination of common sources of unhealthy housing, including mold and moisture, pests, poor indoor air quality, safety problems, contaminants and toxic substances, and deferred maintenance.

POLICY: Rehabilitation of existing multifamily housing. Establish a housing rehabilitation program that assists property owners of multifamily residential housing in modernizing and maintaining units. For example, support efforts to upgrade affordable units with effective ventilation and insulation systems, and eliminate common home pollutants such as lead, asbestos, mold, and pests.

POLICY: Housing code enforcement. Develop a community code enforcement partnership to ensure ongoing and effective health and safety code enforcement, with priority given to rental properties in Priority Equity Communities.

POLICY: HUD housing inspections. Track and address annual United States Housing and Urban Development (HUD) inspections of publicly subsidized housing units.

POLICY: Lead exposure education. Promote education and outreach on lead exposure prevention and lead health effects.

POLICY: Lead exposure prevention. Reduce the potential for lead exposure and poisoning through health checks, home inspections, and code enforcement.

POLICY: Zoning for health-promoting housing. Review, revise, and update the municipal and zoning code (as well as other relevant plans, procedures, regulations, guidelines, programs, and design manuals) as needed, to promote healthy housing quality. Regulations may include:

• Siting buildings to encourage walking and physical activity,
• Designing internal staircases that are visually prominent and attractive,
• Designing buildings to allow for high levels of natural light and air,
• Limiting concentration of unhealthy uses in proximity to sensitive uses,
• Providing safe linkages to parks, trails, schools, and recreation,
• Providing on-site recreational facilities, and
• Using materials that are proven to avoid negative health impacts.