R.I. groups announce healthy-homes alliance

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Alliance for Healthy Homes, an effort that aims to raise awareness about the cost of unhealthy housing and provide cross-sector coordination of education, resources and services among state, city and community-based service organizations, was launched last week.
According to a news release, Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, a national leader on healthy housing with 17 sites around the country, will lead the alliance’s day-to-day management. Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin’s office and the Rhode Island Foundation also pledged support through grants of $54,000 and $60,000, respectively.
Planning for the alliance began in June 2013, when limited coordination among local healthy-housing efforts coupled with staff and budget limitations prompted the idea for a new organization to streamline healthy-housing services and resources. The R.I. Department of Health’s Healthy Housing Collaborative, the Rhode Island Housing Resource Commission’s Healthy Housing Work Group and Green & Healthy Homes Initiative’s Learning Network combined forces to lead the effort. •

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