From: Patrick Salsbury (salsbury_at_sculptors.com)
Date: 12/07/02
Message-Id: <200212071250.gB7CoY715782@bootstrap.sculptors.com> Subject: Building Healthy Homes in Buffalo, NY Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 04:50:32 -0800 From: Patrick Salsbury <salsbury_at_sculptors.com>
I got the following from p. 11 of the Spring/Summer 2002 issue of "UB
today", which is a publication of the University of Buffalo Alumni
Association.
It sounds like a very interesting and useful program, and sorely needed.
Having lived in Buffalo for 5.5 years, I saw many of the neighborhoods that
were run down, with very old houses often in disrepair or decay. I'm glad
to see this being addressed and hope it helps to establish a new healthy
foundation for those living in some of these older homes.
If anyone else runs across further information about this project, please
post it.
I just found some promising looking links through Google:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Buffalo+Community-based+Healthy+Homes+Initiative&btnG=Google+Search
Pat
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Building healthy homes
One of Buffalo's most distressed inner city neighborhoods is the target
of a new "healthy homes" demonstration project to be administered and
operated by UB.
The project, the Buffalo Community-based Healthy Homes Initiative, is
funded by a S700.000 Healthy Homes Demonstration and Education Grant from
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The project's target area is in the Buffalo Federal Enterprise
Community, where 47 percent of the children live in poverty, most in
single-family households. The neighborhood is marked by the highest levels
of asthma, lead poisoning, carbon monoxide poisoning and death by fire in
the city of Buffalo, problems that planners say can be attributed to unsafe
and unhealthy housing.
"In large part," says Beverly McLean, research associate and policy
analyst in the Center for Urban Studies in the UB School of Architecture
and Planning and director of the project, "the housing is unhealthy in the
target area, in part because 99 percent of the housing units were built
before 1939."
The project will entail a comprehensive community-education program, a
healthy homes website to educate parents and children about potential
housing hazards that contribute to childhood injury and disease, a low-cost
intervention model for the rehabilitation of housing units constructed
before 1939, video and online instruction, an afterschool recreational
program promoting healthy-home awareness in children, organized
neighborhood cleanups and other initiatives.