Financing strategies: How to pay for health-related repairs in low-income housing

Public health professionals and providers routinely seek to connect families to affordable healthy housing and assistance with rendering their current homes healthy. Grants, housing subsidies and other resources can be employed to meet individual families' housing needs and improve access to lead-safe housing on a community-wide basis. Based on the Alliance for Healthy Homes' 16 years of work to leverage housing systems and resources, this presentation will review the array of relevant affordable housing and government subsidy programs; offer practical advice for making the best highest use of subsidy programs, affordable housing programs, and other housing delivery systems' resources and expertise; and discuss strategies such as targeting investment of dedicated housing funding and influencing subsidy programs' policies and practices and HUD-required consolidated plans.