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The Importance of Housing for Healthy Populations and Communities.

In this issue, 3 articles summarize the impact of a comprehensive, multisite healthy homes initiative (New York State Healthy Neighborhoods Program [HNP]) on overall housing-related conditions, as well as asthma health outcomes and costs, and remind us of the importance of housing to healthy populations and communities. Housing has long been recognized as a key health determinant. As early as 1938, the American Public Health Association (APHA) published a book on basic principles of healthy housing. More recently, the National Center for Healthy Housing, along with APHA, published an updated National Healthy Homes Standard. In 2009, the US Surgeon General issued a Call to Action to Promote Healthy Homes that addressed ways housing can affect health, highlighting the importance of healthy homes. This was followed in 2013 by the release of a federal strategy, Advancing Healthy Housing: A Strategy for Action, that includes a vision statement of “Substantially reduce the number of American homes with health and safety hazards,” and which identifies multiple actions to accelerate the creation of healthy housing. In a 2011 analysis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 5.2% (5.8 million) of housing units in the United States were classified as inadequate and 23.4 million housing units were considered unhealthy, based on data collected as part of the American Housing Survey. That article also identified key racial, educational, and economic disparities in access to