“As Americans continue to spend more time than ever before at home due to COVID-19, some residents of apartments, condominiums, and other types of multi-unit housing report that they are experiencing an increase in secondhand smoke exposure. As both…

Smoke-Free Housing Recommendations During COVID-19 presents recommendations from Live Smoke Free for property owners, managers, and homeowners, including recommendations specific to public housing. With more residents staying home to prevent the…

This Special Collection includes Cochrane Reviews on medication, behavioral support, and gradual quitting. (Interventions that mimic the act of smoking, such as e-cigarettes, have been excluded from this collection as the risks associated with their use…

Produced by the American Lung Association in partnership with Mental Health America of Kentucky, this is a three-minute video discussion of the correlation between mental illness and smoking, the HUD smoke free housing rule, and the effect of secondhand…

Nearly 60 public health professionals and public housing administrators/property managers participated in the April 10, 2019 webinar presented by Building Success. Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health summarized key findings…

Policies can go a long way toward improving tenants’ health, but they needn’t result in evictions. Strategies and resources are available. www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-smoke-free-public-housing-avoiding-evictions.html

Building Success and more than 100 other programs are compiled in the updated 2019 Global Directory of Smoke-free Multi-Housing Programs. Organizations are listed by country and region/state. The Guide is produced by Live Smoke Free, a program of the…

Negative responses by public housing residents to HUD’s new smoking ban are attracting media attention across the country. Residents forced to smoke more than 25 feet from a HUD property say they feel shamed and unsafe. Many also report not having been…

Ellen Childs, PhD, and John Kane, DPP, members of the Building Success research team, presented “Tracking Reports of Smoking Violations in Public Housing: Initial Findings” at the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) annual conference in…

Key findings from research exploring the experiences of public housing authorities that have adopted and implemented smoke-free policies were presented by Building Success on February 14 and 20, 2018.