National Center for Healthy Housing www.nchh.org

1. Healthy Housing Challenge National Center for Healthy Housing www.nchh.org Putting the Principles of Healthy Homes into Practice

3. Home repair and rehab at no cost to low-income homeowners • National • network of • 187 affiliates • 100,000 volunteers mobilized annually • 5,000 • homes repaired each year • Strategic focus: • Safe and Healthy Housing

4. RT Philadelphia Block Builds

5. Critical Repairs

6. Meeting Our Clients’ Critical Needs

7. Weatherization and Moisture Management

8. Older, Low-Income Homes Pose Far Greater Health and Safety Risks • Moisture, mold and ventilation problems • Asthma triggers • Carbon monoxide • Pests and pesticides • Other toxic exposures • Fire and elec. hazards • Trip and fall hazards

9. 9 RT affiliates worked with NCHH in an iterative,cross-learning process (2012-2013) • Practical tools to help affiliates expand the scope and improve the qualityof repairs Healthy Housing Challenge “Learning Community” • Challenge tools and training are now available to all RT affiliates

10. Healthy Housing Challenge “Tools”

11. Healthy Housing Rehab and Repair Training • 1½-day training for whoever assesses homes, develops SOWs, and oversees volunteer teams • Explains how the Principles of Healthy Homes and the basics of building science apply to home repair • Prerequisite for Wells Fargo HH Challenge grant • Challenge Trainings now being offered to all affiliates

12. Delivering Clear Results • 22 Health and Safety Goals guide Challenge projects (see handout) • Challenge Project Summary Report highlights the progress achieved on each goal

13. More Systematic Home Assessments More Detailed SOWs • Recognize all significant health and safety hazards • Support development of a detailed Statement of Work

14. Comparison of Approaches to Home Assessment

15. Challenge Repair Specs for 350 Repairs • Performance-based specification • Key design features to note • Likely skill level • Cost of materials • Step-by-step instructions • Links to “how-to” videos • Special tools needed

16. Challenge Healthy Home Manager (CHHM) • Draws on the Challenge’s Repair Specs using a SQL database • Guides the home assessment by presenting a menu of relevant repairs for each area/room • Generates a detailed Statement of Work • Helps affiliates manage projects: • Triage, budgeting, assigning tasks to teams/ contractors, deferring tasks • Currently available only to Rebuilding Together affiliates

17. Demonstration of CHHM

18. Meeting Our Clients’ Critical Housing Needs • Wells Fargo launched the HH Challenge in March 2013 • Freddie Mac is the Challenge’s second national sponsor • Opportunity for other foundations and corporations to sponsor • Resources to help affiliates raise funds locally: • Challenge Fundraising Toolkit • “Science Supports Action Now to Make High-Risk Homes Healthier”

19. For Additional Information about the Challenge Don Ryan, Senior Advisor National Center for Healthy Housing donryanemail@gmail.com 703-508-0035 Jim Coburn, Program Manager Rebuilding Together Philadelphia jim@rebuildingphilly.org Amanda Walz, Director, Corporate Engagement Rebuilding Together awalz@rebuildingtogether.org