The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently announced a new rule requiring all public housing to adopt a 100 percent indoor smoke-free policy by midyear 2018. Fortunately, our ...

Smoke-free public housing is expected to reduce secondhand smoke and protect more than 760,000 children and 329,000 senior residents living in public housing, HUD said.

Federal housing officials want to make the nation's public housing system smoke-free, not just in common areas, but in residents' actual living quarters, raising concerns about privacy issues and ...

A paper, "Evaluation of Federally Mandated Smoke-Free Housing Policy and Health Outcomes Among Adults Over the Age of 50 in Low-Income, Public Housing in New York City, 2015-2022," published in ...

It would require public housing complexes to make 50 percent of apartments smoke-free within five years. Supporters say the bill protects nonsmokers; opponents say it's an invasion of privacy.

The Hall County Housing Authority got out ahead of a nationwide ban on smoking in public housing that is set to take effect at the end of the month.

ASI implemented a smoke-free policy at all of its properties more than a decade ago, Berry said. At Edgewood, smoking is banned inside the facility and within 25 feet of its doors and windows ...

About 25,000 tenants will receive letters announcing that their buildings will be smoke-free and that they will have to agree to the new policy when they sign their annual leases.

KINGSTON — First it was restaurants, then bars, now some senior housing facilities in Luzerne County are considering a ban on smoking. Residents recently ...