PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
The purpose of the Healthy Homes Initiative is to develop, demonstrate and promote cost effective, preventive measures to correct multiple safety and health hazards in the home environment that produce serious diseases and injuries in children. HUD is interested in promoting approaches that are cost-effective and efficient and that result in the reduction of health threats for the maximum number of residents for the long run; in particular, low-income children. The overall goals and objectives of the HHI are: (1) Mobilize public and private resources, involving cooperation among all levels of government, the private sector, and faith-based and community-based organizations to develop the most promising, cost-effective methods for identifying and controlling housing-based hazards; (2) Build local capacity to operate sustainable programs that will continue to prevent and, where they occur, minimize and control housing-based hazards in low and very low income residences when HUD funding is exhausted; (3) Affirmatively further fair housing and environmental justice.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. HOUSING;
- Homebuying, Homeownership;
- Cooperatives, Rental;
- Multifamily;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Homeowner;
- Land/Property Owner;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Public non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments;