housing

AARP’s Livable Communities Team examines critical public policy issues that affect the ability of people to successfully age in their homes and communities by promoting the livability of communities through affordable and accessible housing and mobility options.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's manual describes the basic principles of safe and healthy housing in terms of the physiological, psychological, and protection needs that housing provides as well as twelve other chapters on topics from electricity to residential swimming pools to indoor air pollution.

NCHH promotes conducts research, provides a searchable clearinghouse of resources, and supports implementation of policies that encourage safe, decent, and sanitary housing as a means for preventing disease and injury.

This information sheet discusses a number of opportunities that planners have to address food issues through planning and policy approaches, by addressing challenges related to healthy food access and local food production.

This information sheet discusses a number of opportunities that planners have to address environment and housing issues through planning and policy approaches, specifically with regard to the effect brownfields and housing quality have on human physical, psychological, and social health.

A publication from the Center for Universal Design on accessible, adaptable, and universal design housing features or features in housing intended for use by people with disabilities and others.

The HUD website is the portal to federal housing and urban resources.