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What New Opportunities and Challenges Face Public Agencies, Community Organizations, Private Industry, Facility Managers and Owners, and Educational Institutions as HUD. EPA, CDC and USDA Pursue the “Framework for Healthy Housing”? In September 2008 in Baltimore, these federal agencies conducted an exciting and visionary conference on ”Building A Framework For Healthy Housing”. That conference focused attention on the need to provide safe, healthy and efficient homes for America’s families and reflected the federal commitment to lay the foundation to achieve their healthy homes agenda. The New Orleans conference will strive to advance the challenge of developing a national strategy for making our nation’s homes and buildings healthy places to live and work through innovative programs, public/private collaborations and local/state/federal partnerships. The New Orleans conference will provide an exciting educational and networking opportunity by bringing together a cross section of public officials, educators, facility operators, industry practitioners, and program advocates to engage in problem-solving sessions designed to help attendees strengthen their abilities to participate in the movement towards healthy and safer living and working environments. The New Orleans conference will examine HUD’s draft “Healthy Homes Strategic Plan” so grantees and potential grantees can gain a better understanding of its relationship to local program operations, and engage in the strategic planning process by offering suggestions that can help shape the final plan. The conference will focus on healthy housing and healthy building issues, such as:
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