{"id":5117,"date":"2025-03-24T23:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T03:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/?post_type=program&p=5117"},"modified":"2025-03-25T00:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T04:30:07","slug":"nycha-healthy-homes-campaign","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/programs\/nycha-healthy-homes-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCHIVE: NYCHA Healthy Homes Campaign"},"template":"","class_list":["post-5117","program","type-program","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","program_tax-nycha-healthy-homes-campaign"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":5127,"program_type":false,"abstract":"Building on our long history of working to improve our indoor environment and support those who live in affordable housing, we organized NYCHA residents in preparation for the 2021 New York City Council and Mayoral races."},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_links","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_hero_links":{"title":"","abstract":"","links":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"What is a Healthy Home?\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nAccording to the\u00a0National Center for Healthy Housing<\/a>, a healthy home is housing that is designed, constructed, maintained, and rehabilitated in a manner that is conducive to good occupant health. At WE ACT, we often engage with\u00a0healthy homes<\/a>\u00a0topics as they relate to lead, mold, or other indoor environmental health issues. For us a healthy home also includes other aspects of a community including waste, pests, and pesticides, noise pollution and other factors that impact our health.\r\n\r\nAbout the Campaign\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nEstablished in 1934, the\u00a0New York City Housing Authority<\/a>\u00a0(NYCHA) was the first and is currently the largest public housing authority in the United States. It provides affordable housing to nearly 600,000 New Yorkers in 326 developments across the five boroughs of New York City.\r\n\r\nNYCHA, however, faces a myriad of problems \u2013 most of which are tied to the fact that it has been chronically underfunded for years. As a result, the New Yorkers who rent apartments in NYCHA developments often have to endure environmental challenges such as mold, lead, and pests along with substandard service in terms of repairs and other basic issues.\r\n\r\nAccording to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, we spend approximately\u00a090 percent of our lives indoors<\/a>. That\u2019s why the indoor environmental threats and other challenges that NYCHA tenants face are such a grave concern.\r\n\r\nBuilding on our legacy of leadership on the\u00a0indoor environment<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0our work in support of NYCHA residents<\/a>, WE ACT for Environmental Justice launched its NYCHA Healthy Homes campaign in 2020. WE ACT is organizing NYCHA residents in preparation for the\u00a02021 New York City Council and Mayoral races<\/a>. Our goal is to mobilize and engage residents, raise awareness of the health inequities they face, and develop leaders who can advocate on behalf of the NYCHA community to ensure that protecting public housing and improving their living conditions is a top priority for the 2021 candidates.\r\n\r\nCampaign Focus Areas\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nThe NYCHA Healthy Homes Campaign work began with recommendations from our\u00a0Dyckman Villages report<\/a>, to narrow down a focus for the campaign agenda. Of the eight topics, two revealed themselves to be most pressing \u2013 NYCHA Operations and Safety & Security. After much discussion amongst the group, voting and breakout sessions, the following areas were considered to be most important to advocate around for this campaign.\r\n\r\nBuilding Maintenance\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nMaintenance issues such as broken elevators and boilers, impaired surveillance cameras and intercoms, and other maintenance issues significantly impacts residents\u2019 daily activities. These issues can severely impact health. Broken elevators can cause older residents to stay isolated in their units, or can trigger respiratory illness on a hot day from overexertion.\u00a0 NYCHA building maintenance is fundamental to climate resiliency as energy efficiency, access to adequate heating and cooling, and retrofitting are key to ensuring that resident health is prioritized in a changing climate. Living in a healthy environment is key to gaining social capital and strengthening their physical and mental health.\r\n\r\nBuilding Safety & Security\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nBy ensuring the safety and accountability within the resident environment, there will be more opportunity to positively influence behaviors\/patterns and interactions amongst residents. Therefore, home environments will feel safer; preventing or reducing the health effects of chronic stress, and preserving environmental health. According to the NYCHA federal monitor, improvements on safety and security are a much-needed addition to addressing NYCHA operations issues as well.\r\n\r\nResident Input & Decision Making\u00a0<\/strong>\r\nAllowing residents to govern the operations in NYCHA living environments that directly affect their day to day lives will be empowering and an effective method to create a more nurturing environment. Empowering residents to lead the housing operations that directly impact them will make their living environment more predictable and non-threatening. By creating a more nurturing environment which is apparently predictable and non-threatening will prevent or reduce the health effects of chronic stress.\r\n\r\nDownload WE ACT\u2019s Healthy Homes Campaign Agenda<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(PDF)\r\n\r\nDownload WE ACT\u2019s Dyckman Villages Report in\u00a0English<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PDF)\u00a0or\u00a0Spanish<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PDF)\r\n\r\nTo join\u00a0WE ACT\u2019s Healthy Homes Working Group<\/a>, reach out to Liz Reyes at\u00a0elizabeth.reyes@weact.org<\/a>.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nLooking for Better Indoor Air?<\/strong>\r\nDownload our\u00a0DIY Air Filter Toolkit<\/a>\u00a0(PDF) and learn how you can make your own air filter!","include_drop_cap":false}}]},"yoast_head":"\nARCHIVE: NYCHA Healthy Homes Campaign - WE ACT for Environmental Justice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/programs\/nycha-healthy-homes-campaign\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ARCHIVE: NYCHA Healthy Homes Campaign - 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