Healthy Homes Would Take Big Hit

 

Included in the proposed cuts in President Obama’s proposed budget, is a signature program of the Boston Public Health Commission. The Healthy Homes program dispatches health workers to older homes in Dorchester, Roxbury, and other neighborhoods, to work with residents to eliminate the environmental triggers that inflame asthma. The Obama proposal slashes by half — from $66 million to $33 million nationally — the amount spent as part of the Healthy Homes program. It’s unclear how much money Boston could lose.

-Adapted from “Deep cuts, chance of gains for state in Obama budget; Programs for poor would take big hit Targeted spending could add jobs”, by Donovan Slack and Stephen Smith, Globe Staff, The Boston Globe, February 15, 2011, http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/02/15/deep_cuts_some_gains_for_bay_state_in_obama_budget/, retrieved 2/15/11.

 

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