ABOUT
Healthy Homes Des Moines (HHDSM) focuses on mitigating housing’s effects on asthma-impaired children. Its goal is to move upstream in asthma control—addressing environmental factors that make control harder and traditional treatments less effective. The project also builds institutional support for ensuring healthy living environments for asthma-impaired children elsewhere in Iowa by using data to make the case for the cost effectiveness of upstream interventions, securing third-party funding, adding legal recourses for tenants, and involving family support professionals in household environment improvement.