National Center for Healthy Housing

What National Center for Healthy Housing does

National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), founded in September 1992 and headquartered at 10320 Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 200, Columbia, Maryland, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing safe and healthy housing through research, evidence-based policy, technical assistance, and coalition-based advocacy. It was originally established as the National Center for Lead-Safe Housing with a $5.2 million founding grant from the Fannie Mae Foundation (its largest-ever grant), and rebranded to its current name as its mission broadened beyond lead poisoning. NCHH operates a portfolio of free web-based tools and standards (the National Healthy Housing Standard, Code Comparison Tool, Extinguish Tool, Indoor Air Quality Tools Inventory, Healthcare Financing Resource Library, State of Healthy Housing data platform, and the Building Systems to Sustain Home-Based Asthma Services e-learning modules), and coordinates the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition of over 200 organizations alongside national observances such as National Healthy Homes Month. The organization hosts a WHO Collaborating Center for Healthy Housing Training and Research (designated 2010) and was a key contributor to the 2018 WHO Housing and Health Guidelines.

NCHH generates revenue primarily through foundation and government grants, individual and corporate donations, and professional services delivered through its wholly owned for-profit subsidiary, Healthy Housing Solutions, Inc. (established November 2003), which serves federal, state, and local agencies and private-sector clients. It serves seven primary customer segments — public health and housing organizations, policymakers, government agencies, healthcare providers, researchers and academics, foundations/corporations, and families/consumers — with dedicated technical assistance, training, research collaborations, and free educational resources. Governance is provided by a Board of Directors, an Emeritus Board (launched 2022), and a Science Advisory Committee; Amanda L. Reddy has served as Executive Director since 2017, leading a staff of 15 professionals in environmental health, public health, housing policy, industrial hygiene, engineering, and marketing. The organization wholly owns Healthy Housing Solutions, Inc. and absorbed the Alliance for Healthy Homes via merger in 2010.

Name

National Center for Healthy Housing

Legal name

National Center for Healthy Housing, Inc.

Website

https://nchh.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

NCHH is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1992 that advances safe and healthy housing through research, evidence-based policy, technical assistance, and coalition-based advocacy, serving public health agencies, governments, healthcare providers, and researchers across all 50 U.S. states and internationally via its WHO Collaborating Center.

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Product category

Healthy Housing Research and Advocacy

NAICS

Scientific Research and Development Services (5417), Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Chronic Disease & NCD Program Evaluation (e.g., diabetes/CVD/cancer) (HLAJANAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Non-Communicable Disease Prevention & Chronic Disease Programs (BPAIAJAI)

Keywords

• Healthy housing research
• Lead poisoning prevention
• Housing policy advocacy
• Environmental health services
• Indoor air quality

Headquarters

HQ city

Columbia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Foundation and Government Grants: NCHH is funded primarily through grants from foundations, federal government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and corporate sponsors, supporting research, policy, and capacity-building work.
2. Individual and Corporate Donations: NCHH accepts donations and has corporate sponsors that support its mission of securing safe and healthy housing for all.
3. Subsidiary Professional Services: Healthy Housing Solutions, Inc., NCHH's wholly owned for-profit subsidiary established in November 2003, provides federal, state, and local agencies and private sector organizations with professional services related to residential environmental health and safety issues.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

NCHH is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that conducts research, develops evidence-based standards and tools, delivers technical assistance, and leads coalition advocacy to secure safe and healthy housing. It produces publications, online tools, e-learning modules, and standards, and operates a for-profit subsidiary (Healthy Housing Solutions) that delivers professional services to government agencies and private organizations on residential environmental health and safety.

Product overview

National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that delivers a portfolio of research-driven tools, publications, toolkits, and advocacy initiatives rather than a single unified software product. Its offerings cluster around an NCHH Resources Library that aggregates research outputs, complemented by standalone practitioner tools such as the Code Comparison Tool, Extinguish Tool, and Indoor Air Quality Tools Inventory, evidence-based publications including the National Healthy Housing Standard, State of Healthy Housing, the Healthy Homes Guide to Cleaning and Disinfection, and the Roadmap to Sustainable Asthma Home Visiting, specialized toolkits such as the Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care and Lead-Safe Toolkit for Center-Based Child Care, and supporting resources like the Healthcare Financing Resource Library and Building Systems to Sustain Home-Based Asthma Services. The advocacy initiative Find It, Fix It, Fund It ties the portfolio together by directing partners to identify, remediate, and finance healthy housing improvements, while collaborative research studies (EXTRACT, CLEARS, PHAMOUS, ABATE HOME) extend the product set into evidence generation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Code Comparison Tool An online comparison tool that enables communities to compare their current housing and property maintenance codes against the National Healthy Housing Standard (NHHS) and the International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC) to support adoption of healthier housing codes.
• National Healthy Housing Standard (NHHS) A comprehensive evidence-based standard stewarded by NCHH that sets health and safety requirements for residential dwellings, intended to eliminate hazardous conditions in existing housing and support policy adoption.
• Extinguish Tool An online resource supporting indoor environmental quality and asthma-related home assessments; stewardship transferred from Georgia Tech to NCHH in 2018.
• Building Systems to Sustain Home-Based Asthma Services A free comprehensive online e-learning and technical assistance platform that equips public health agencies, state asthma-control programs, state Medicaid agencies, and other housing and health organizations to build systems, infrastructure, and financing for home-based asthma services.
• Indoor Air Quality Tools Inventory A curated inventory of indoor air quality tools organized by topic (partnerships, data, policies/programs/services, workforce, best practices, empowering residents, financing/funding, educating interest holders) supporting the assessment and improvement of indoor air quality in residential settings.
• Healthcare Financing Resource Library A library of resources covering financing mechanisms that enable healthcare systems to invest in healthy housing interventions, including Medicaid 101, healthcare payers, hospital community benefits, social impact bonds, and workforce development.
• State of Healthy Housing A national data platform and report assessing the state of healthy housing in the United States, with executive summary, key definitions, FAQs, and state rankings tracking healthy housing conditions nationwide.
• Healthy Housing Solutions Professional Services Professional services provided through NCHH's wholly owned for-profit subsidiary to federal, state, and local agencies and private sector organizations on residential environmental health and safety issues, including the National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network.
• Find It, Fix It, Fund It Advocacy Initiative A flagship advocacy initiative guiding stakeholders to identify (Find It), remediate (Fix It), and pay for (Fund It) healthy housing hazards through coordinated action across the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition.
• Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care A toolkit equipping family child care providers operating in home-based settings with lead-safety practices and resources to protect children from lead exposure.

Quantifiable outcome

• 24 million homes with lead-based paint hazards identified as putting children at risk of lead poisoning
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature8 records

Partnerships

22 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• Healthy Housing Solutions, Inc.flagshipOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerNCHH's wholly owned subsidiary, Healthy Housing Solutions, Inc. (Solutions), was established in November 2003 to provide federal, state, and local agencies, as well as private sector organizations, with professional services related to residential environmental health and safety issues.
• World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating CenterflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerFirst designated by WHO in 2010 within NCHH's research division. NCHH played a key role in the development and 2018 release of the WHO Housing and Health Guidelines, the first international document of its kind. David E. Jacobs, PhD, CIH, NCHH's chief scientist, served as an editor and author of WHO's Environmental Burden of Disease Associated with Inadequate Housing (2011).
• Alliance for Healthy HomesflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Alliance for Healthy Homes (AFHH) merged with NCHH on January 20, 2010; NCHH became steward of all AFHH's assets and research, and three of the remaining AFHH staff became NCHH employees. The Alliance was formed in 1990 as the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning.
• Great Lakes Collaborating Center for Environmental and Occupational Health (University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCHH's WHO Collaborating Center has partnered with the Great Lakes Collaborating Center for Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health on housing and health work.
• National Safe and Healthy Housing CoalitionflagshipGTM or Marketing PartnerNCHH coordinates the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition, a broad, voluntary coalition of over 200 organizations working to improve housing conditions nationwide through education and outreach to key national stakeholders and federal public decision makers.
• Johns Hopkins UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCHH collaborated with Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and organizations in four U.S. communities on the Aging Gracefully in Place study to evaluate the replicability of JHU's CAPABLE intervention model (Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders).
• Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCHH and partners Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) and National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC) released the Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care in 2019 to educate home-based child care providers about lead exposure.
• National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNAFCC partnered with NCHH and CEHN on the Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care released in 2019.
• Enterprise Community PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnterprise Community Partners and NCHH released a report in 2022 on a multiyear study affirming the importance of ASHRAE-compliant mechanical ventilation in homes, supporting the inclusion of ASHRAE ventilation standards in green building standards, and recommending replacement of gas stoves with electric.
• New York State Department of HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCHH partnered with the New York State Department of Health and Health Research, Inc. on research; findings influenced HUD's 2021 update of its radon policy from 25% to 100% testing. NCHH also provides technical assessment to NYS Childhood Lead Poisoning Primary Prevention Program.
• Cincinnati Children's Medical CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCHH and partners at Cincinnati Children's Medical Center, Simon Fraser University, and Brown University conducted the ABATE HOME (Analysis of the Benefits of Abatement Techniques and Effectiveness in the HOME Study) study.
• Simon Fraser UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner with NCHH and Cincinnati Children's Medical Center on the ABATE HOME study examining lead abatement techniques and dust lead levels.
• Brown UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner with NCHH and Cincinnati Children's Medical Center on the ABATE HOME study examining lead abatement techniques and dust lead levels.
• Enterprise FoundationflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Enterprise Foundation (now Enterprise Community Partners) was one of NCHH's two parent organizations that persuaded the Fannie Mae Foundation to make its largest ever grant of $5.2 million to create NCHH in 1992.
• Health Impact Project (Pew Charitable Trusts)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNCHH contributed to 10 Policies to Prevent and Respond to Childhood Lead Exposure, a comprehensive report published by the Health Impact Project of the Pew Charitable Trusts in 2017.
• Day One ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIn 2020, NCHH authored a draft executive order for the incoming Biden-Harris Administration with the Day One Project, entitled Ensuring Healthy Homes: Eliminating Lead and Other Housing Hazards.
• Indoor Climate Research and Training program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaigncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFor the EXTRACT study (Extracting Indoor Pollutants with Proper Ventilation), NCHH partners with the Indoor Climate Research and Training program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, the Fort Collins (Colorado) Healthy Homes program, and the Illinois Home Weatherization Program.
• New Ecology, Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with NCHH on the PHAMOUS (Passive House Asthma Mitigation by Optimizing Unique Building Systems) study alongside Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., Homeowners Rehab, Inc., and Beacon Communities.
• Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with NCHH on the PHAMOUS study alongside New Ecology, Inc., Homeowners Rehab, Inc., and Beacon Communities.
• Homeowners Rehab, Inc.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with NCHH on the PHAMOUS study alongside New Ecology, Inc., Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., and Beacon Communities.
• Beacon CommunitiesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with NCHH on the PHAMOUS study alongside New Ecology, Inc., Preservation of Affordable Housing, Inc., and Homeowners Rehab, Inc.
• Health Research, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublished influential study findings with NCHH and the New York State Department of Health that, in most multifamily buildings, all ground-contact dwelling units should be tested for radon; informed HUD's 2021 radon policy update.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Trust for America's Health: Nonprofit dedicated to making disease prevention a national priority; comparable as a public health policy advocacy and research organization but broader in scope than NCHH.
• National Housing Conference: Established housing policy advocacy organization that addresses affordability, production, and quality; overlaps with NCHH on housing-health policy but with a broader policy portfolio beyond environmental health.
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): Represents local health departments; comparable as a public health infrastructure and capacity-building organization, with overlap on environmental health programs NCHH supports.
• American Public Health Association (APHA): Large general public health advocacy and professional organization with much broader scope than NCHH; relevant comparison as a public health advocacy peer, though less specialized in housing.
• National Low Income Housing Coalition: Major housing advocacy organization focused on affordable housing for low-income households; tangentially comparable on the housing side, less so on environmental health specialization.

Emerging players

• National Association for Family Child Care (NAFCC): National nonprofit partner of NCHH representing home-based child care providers; comparable only at the intersection of child care environmental health (e.g., Lead-Safe Toolkit co-release), not a broader competitor.

Others

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Major health-focused philanthropy that funds healthy housing and health equity research; comparable as a potential funder/partner ecosystem player rather than a direct competitor.

Direct peers

• Enterprise Community Partners: Affordable housing nonprofit and NCHH partner that co-released ASHRAE ventilation research in 2022; comparable focus on the intersection of housing quality, health, and low-income communities.
• Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI): Direct peer organization focused on healthy and green housing through direct services, capacity building, and policy advocacy; similar mission to eliminate housing-related health hazards and comparable target audience of government agencies, nonprofits, and healthcare systems.
• Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN): National nonprofit partner of NCHH focused on protecting children from environmental health hazards; co-developed the Lead-Safe Toolkit for Home-Based Child Care (2019) and shares the same advocacy, research, and capacity-building orientation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries1 record

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