Healthy Homes Programs
Effective January 13, 2025 and until further notice, we are no longer accepting applications for Healthy Homes Program due to the full allocation of grant assistance.
Environmental hazards in the home harm millions of children each year. In 1999, in response to a Congressional Directive over concerns about child environmental health, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched its Healthy Homes Initiative (HHI) to protect children and their families from housing-related health and safety hazards. HUD has developed a Healthy Homes Strategic plan that lays out the next steps our office will take to advance the healthy homes agenda nationwide. Please take time to review this key document.
What's the Purpose of the Healthy Homes Program?
The Healthy Homes Program addresses multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home. The Initiative takes a comprehensive approach to these activities by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. The HHI builds upon HUD's successful Lead Hazard Control programs to expand its efforts to address a variety of environmental health and safety concerns including: mold, lead, allergens, asthma, carbon monoxide, home safety, pesticides, and radon.
Making a Difference: Healthy Homes Grant Activities
Our grants focus on researching and demonstrating low-cost, effective home hazard assessment and intervention methods, as well as on public education that stresses ways in which communities can mitigate housing-related hazards. Healthy Homes Production Grant.
Eligible activities may include:
- Developing low-cost methods for hazard assessment and intervention
- Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions
- Building local capacity to educate residents and mitigate hazards
- Developing and delivering public-education programs
Everyone deserves to live in a safe and healthy home. Your home has as much of an impact on the health of its residents as their lifestyle and diet. "Healthy Homes" is a century-old concept that promotes safe, decent, and sanitary housing as a means for preventing disease and injury.
A healthy home is one that is dry, clean, safe, well-ventilated, free of pests and contaminants, well-maintained, and thermally comfortable. Learn more about the eight principles of a healthy home(PDF, 474KB).
The City of Wilmington’s Healthy Homes Program(PDF, 114KB) offers grant assistance to low-income homeowners and renters to help remediate home health risk identified through the Eight Principles of Healthy Home Inspection.
By targeting these hazards, the program helps create a clean, safe, and comfortable living space where families cab thrive, free from home health risk. The program also ensures low-income families have access to resources needed to make necessary home repairs, thereby improving their overall quality of life and well-being
Eligible households/housing units are privately owned or low-income rental and/or owner-occupied housing where low-income persons (below 80% AMI HUD Adjusted Home Income Limits for the Wilmington area) reside.
Priority will be given to low-income households/housing units where families with children under 6 years of age, adults 62 years or older, or persons with disabilities.
All households/housing units must be within the city limits of Wilmington, North Carolina.
The City of Wilmington does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, age, national origin, religion or disability in its employment opportunities, programs, services or activities. Program subject to change without notice. Other restrictions may apply. Equal housing lender.