SHHC Meeting: January 21, 2020
Please join us at the next coalition meeting at the Public Health Institute of Western MA, Robinson Conference Room, from 1 to 2 PM or by Zoom .

Meris Bergquist, Executive Director from the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center , will join us to discuss the complaint they filed in federal court to challenge discriminatory terms of the lead law that require property owners to engage in lead abatement  only  when a child under age six resides in a unit.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 1-2 PM
Public Health Institute of WM, 127 State Street, 4th Floor, Robinson Conference Room (entrance through Community Music School on Stockbridge Street)

Free parking at MGM

Zoom conference:  https://zoom.us/j/4137397739
Call-in line: 9292056099 Passcode: 4137397739#

City of Springfield's Lead Abatement Program
The Healthy Homes Program funds housing rehabilitation in the Memorial Square and Six Corners neighborhoods. It is an integrated, whole-house approach that produces sustainable, green, healthy, and safe homes, consistent with local sanitary code and federal housing quality standards.
  • Eligible Owner-occupants may apply for a 0% forgivable loan to complete repairs and healthy homes interventions.
  • Rental property owners who are eligible may apply for a 0% forgivable loan, covering up to 90% of project cost.

Healthy Homes Program applications available starting July 2019; Accepted on a rolling basis. (The initial application period was May 15, 2017 through August 31, 2017.) Incomplete applications will not be accepted.  

See the following documents for more information:
Please Endorse Health & Affordable Housing Policy Principles by 1/15!
Please consider having your organization sign on as an endorser of the “Massachusetts Principles for Healthy and Affordable Housing” . The deadline to sign on is January 15th.

Endorsement is open to all institutions and organizations from the health care, public health, social service, and consumer advocacy sectors . The statement calls for policy action in five areas:

  • Increase resources to produce and preserve more housing that is affordable to low and extremely low income families and individuals
  • Improve the quality of housing and ensure all residents live in safe and healthy homes
  • Ensure protections for tenants and low-income households facing eviction and displacement
  • Expand rental supports for low-income households
  • Increase low-barrier supportive housing with the services needed to help individuals and families with complex physical and behavioral health challenges

This statement was developed by ACHI, in collaboration with the MA Hospital Association, the MA League of Community Health Centers, and the Boston ACO Collaborative. 
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The city of Springfield is one of the poorest and most ethnically diverse communities in the state of Massachusetts, USA. Almost one-in-three (29.7%) people lives below the poverty line and nearly half (48%) of the population is non-Caucasian....

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