Urban Discoveries Baltimore

The National Center for Healthy Housing has done its homework, my fellow countrymen, and they’re spreading the news: we haven’t done ours. They polled citizens 18 and older about basic home health risks and their findings should surprise nobody who’s ever lived in America. Three generalizations that account for most of the particulars:
(1.) we know about at least some of the things we could do to make our homes safer and more wholesome,
(2.) we still are doing any of them, and
(3.) most of us say it’s because of money.

I might add as a fourth note that we’re likely less motivated by frugality than sloth, but then I was too lazy to participate in the survey. But! After sending us on a long and statistically precise guilt trip, the NCHH provided us with a list of cheap and straightforward actions we can take to make living in our houses less like playing Russian roulette. Sure, some of their suggestions seem a little weenie-ish ($100 for an anti-scald shower diverter? Do I not have hands?), but most of them are really practical and easy (cover for the trash can, radon test kit, doormats).

Cringe at the survey highlights here, and check out their list of tips here. Now get to work!

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