Public Support for Smoke-Free Section 8 Public Housing.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
McMillen RC, Winickoff JP, Gottlieb MA, Tanski S, Wilson K, Klein JD.
Public Support for Smoke-Free Section 8 Public Housing.
West J Nurs Res. 2019 Feb 10:193945919826238. doi: 10.1177/0193945919826238. [Epub ahead of print]
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently issued rules requiring that federally funded authorities administering public housing must have smoke-free policies. Importantly, this requirement does not extend to Section 8 housing. Under the Section 8 program, public housing vouchers provide subsidies for private rental housing to low-income residents. This study examines support for smoke-free policy options in Section 8 housing. Using a nationally representative survey of adults, we asked 3,070 respondents to agree or disagree with two potential policies. The majority (71%) supported prohibiting indoor smoking everywhere inside buildings that have Section 8 housing units. Alternatively, respondents were less supportive (38%) of a policy to prohibit smoking only inside units with Section 8 subsidies, and allowing smoking in nonsubsidized units. Prohibiting smoking in all units in multiunit housing (MUH) buildings would help protect the health of both the 2.2 million households who receive Section 8 subsidies and their neighbors.
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