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We investigated the extent to which the building design and construction) and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) — locational factors that can contribute to the nation’s largest source of funding for occupant health-particularly asthma and development and preservation of affordable respiratory ailments, injury and accessibility, rental housing — helps shape a healthier toxicity-related problems. [...] We asked the following: could the QAP also be used to promote a healthier This brief summarizes what is working affordable housing stock? We conducted a well and what is more challenging in comprehensive content analysis of healthy states’ efforts to advance healthy housing housing (HH) provisions in states’ QAPs and provisions in the QAP and overall LIHTC affiliated documents. [...] Or it may half of housing agencies claimed additional emanate from a growing awareness of the construction costs as the primary obstacle connections between health and the built to strengthening HH provisions in the LIHTC environment until it reaches, as one of our process (figure 5). [...] States should seek mandating use of GBCs with many healthy opportunities to include GBCs in the QAP housing provisions was an effective way to mandates that are aligned with WELL, Fitwel, strengthen healthy housing provisions in the National Healthy Housing Standard, or their QAP. [...] SURVEY OF KEY STAFF IN STATE HOUSING FINANCE AGENCIES » Identified a key staff member in each state’s HFA who was responsible for or significantly involved in developing the QAP and knowledgeable about healthy housing initiatives of the HFA.