Federal government wants to ban smoking in public housing

By Here & Now

Federal government wants to ban smoking in public housing

By Here & Now
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The proposed ban on smoking in public housing would affect nearly 1 million households. (Kristaps Bergfelds/Flickr)

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that it wants to ban smoking in public housing across the country, including in people’s apartments. If adopted, the new rule would affect nearly a million households.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with Lourdes Castro Ramirez, principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Public and Indian Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, about why HUD is proposing the ban, and how it would be enforced.