HUD Begins Nationwide Ban on Smoking in Public Housing

[fandandy 3,311]

As of July 31, smokers will no longer be permitted to light up within state-assisted “HUD” housing projects.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will no longer permit the use of cigarettes, cigars, or pipes on the premises of its housing units. This includes not only the homes themselves, but any public areas, and a 25-foot radius around any outdoor spaces. The ban will not prohibit e-cigarettes, snuff, or chewing tobacco.

The new national mandate will bring the remaining 940,000 HUD housing project in line with the 228,000 already smoke-free. The new rule is projected to save about $153 million a year in both maintenance and healthcare costs — a fair chunk of the nearly half-billion savings estimated by the CDC in 2014.

But the benefits are not merely fiscal. HUD wants to reduce exposure to dangerous secondhand smoke, and encourage its tenants to drop the carcinogenic habit. To that effect, the encouragement will be underlined by stringent guidelines: Tenants could face eviction for violation of these rules — though first offenses will be forgiven.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/31/hud-begins-nationwide-ban-on-smoking-in-public-housing/

 

[Reality 2,710]

[bandrus1 413]

Good

[Fireballer 2,381]

I guess our mattress fires should be reduced to nothing.

[vuduchile 1,941]

Oh yeah. That'll be easy to enforce

[SenatorRock 708]

That's racist.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,631]

Lol. Maybe they can have a ban on pissing in elevators too.

[RLLD 3,455]

Good luck with that

[vuduchile 1,941]

Hey. I have an idea. Let's make it illegal to rob, rape, sells drugs to or kill people in housing projects too!

[RLLD 3,455]

Yeah, cause that is just as possible as well....

[LOD01 190]

[Alias Detective 1,179]

This won't end well....

 

It's funny, in drug and alcohol rehab, smoking IS permitted because of the emotional distress quitting can cause.

[wiffleball 4,639]

Given the cost of cigs...

[edjr 5,563]

Yeah, this will work.

 

Cops are being shot at alarming rates. Imagine what will happen to workers checking on people in housing, to see if they're smoking

[Fireballer 2,381]

No fukin way they enforce this. Ive literally been in thousands of sh!thole project apartments in my life, some of the most dangerous in the US. Theres more Newport butts in the projects than there are leaves on the trees. They cant even keep these people from having 10 relatives living with them or having 2" of chicken grease built up on the stove and kitchen walls. You get a little water from a fire hose on a floor with chicken grease and youre sliding around like Brian Boitano. If these buildings werent brick and block, they would find a way to tear them down. No respect.

[fandandy 3,311]

Would definitely be a suck job for whoever is hired to enforce it. I'm curious what the procedure would look like.

 

Be polite but firm.

 

Note: If child answers the door DO NOT ask to speak to their father.

[Hardcore troubadour 12,631]

But now some kid will get asthma and the parents, sorry, baby mama, will sue because the no smoking rule wasn't enforced.

[peenie 1,690]

I think it's a great requirement

[MDC 5,890]

I think it's a great requirement

#metoo

[tanatastic 2,061]

Yea, gonna keep poor people from smoking cigs, sure.