Creating Smokefree Policies for Affordable Housing in California
Fact Sheet
Do you want to help limit smoking in housing geared toward low-income residents? Developed by ChangeLab Solutions, formerly Public Health Law & Policy (PHLP) and the Technical Assistance Legal Center (TALC), this fact sheet explains how to work with key players to establish smokefree policies for this type of housing in your community. It also provides resources to help you make contacts and engage with them about the need for smokefree policies in affordable housing.
This fact sheet refers to two additional documents:
- Comparison of Smoke-Free Housing Policy Factors: Private Market Rate versus Publicly Subsidized Multi-Unit Housing, prepared by Warren Ortland, staff attorney with the Public Health Law Center in Minnesota: This chart shows various approaches to implementing and enforcing smokefree policies for different forms of affordable housing
- How to Get Started on that Smoke-Free Housing Objective, compiled by Serena Chen of the American Lung Association in California: This chart identifies the various stakeholders involved in affordable and market-rate housing and some talking points to use when approaching each stakeholder
- Legal Options for Tenants Suffering from Drifting Tobacco Smoke
- How Landlords Can Prohibit Smoking in Rental Housing
- Model Ordinance: Smokefree Housing
- Model Ordinance: Smokefree Beaches
- Tobacco Laws Affecting California
- How Disability Laws Can Help Tenants Suffering from Drifting Tobacco Smoke
- Making a New Smokefree Housing Law Work
- Model Ordinance CHECKLIST: Smokefree Recreational Areas
In the last few years, a new understanding of the built environment’s impact on health has brought the public health community and planners together to develop a variety of innovative land use policies that promote health.