April 16, 2013: Wells Fargo Commits $850,000 to Help Launch Healthy Housing Challenge
SAN FRANCISCO and COLUMBIA, Md. — National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), a national nonprofit dedicated to creating safe and healthy homes for children and their families, and Wells Fargo & Co. announced that the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation has committed up to $850,000 over three years to help launch the “Healthy Housing Challenge.” This new initiative seeks to bring home improvement help to seniors, veterans, and low-income families currently living in homes with potential safety and health threats. Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit dedicated to creating safe and healthy housing for America’s families, will lead the home improvement work on 1,500 homes.
The Healthy Housing Challenge takes its inspiration from a recent federal government report, Healthy Homes Strategy for Action, that estimated more than 30 million homes have potential health threats that contribute to asthma and other respiratory diseases, carbon monoxide poisoning, and other issues. The Healthy Housing Challenge seeks to alert homeowners, health care providers, and policymakers to the many low-cost ways to make homes healthier.