Loyola University Chicago
Healthy Homes & Healthy Communities
Welcome to HHHCI
Addressing the Burden of Unhealthy Housing in our Communities
Loyola University Chicago’s Healthy Homes & Healthy Communities Initiative (HHHCI) is an broad interdisciplinary university-community-public-private partnership with the goal of tackling the problem of environmental toxins and health hazards in homes and communities of the Chicagoland area.
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New Home for Lead Safe Illinois!
The outstanding resources at LeadSafeIllinois.org have been fully moved to this Healthy Homes website, hosted by Loyola University Chicago.
VIEWOverview of the Initiative
The home serves many purposes besides a place of residency. The home is where we begin and finish our day, where families and their children live, play, and grow for years, and where people have a sense of comfort and safety. Unfortunately, the home is a place where many known and unknown environmental toxins are causing health hazards that are continuously affecting these residents on a daily basis. Indoor environmental hazards in the home harm millions of children and families each year. Scientists have long recognized that indoor toxic hazards can pose far greater risks to children’s health than outdoor exposures because of the concentrated levels in enclosed, poorly ventilated spaces.
In response to the risks that these physical and social toxins pose to children and families' health, the Center for the Human Rights of Children, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Policy, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Medical Center, and Loyola Law School's Civitas ChildLaw Center ("The Centers") at Loyola University Chicago have developed the Healthy Homes/Healthy Communities Initiative (HHHCI) project.
View the HHHCI Concept Paper.
