Smoke-Free Multi-Housing: Healthier Buildings. Happier Tenants.
A Smart Investment.

The Live Smoke Free program promotes smoke-free policies for apartment buildings, condominiums, and other multi-unit housing settings. Currently, Minnesota tenants seeking smoke-free multi-unit housing largely outnumber the amount of smoke-free units available.

In order to increase the number of smoke-free buildings in Minnesota, Live Smoke Free educates building owners, managers, local policy makers, tenants, and housing industry professionals about the benefits of smoke-free buildings. Live Smoke Free assits building owners and managers with creating and promoting a smoke-free policy for their property.

The program also assists tenants in finding solutions to secondhand smoke problems. Tenants can learn how to talk to their landlord about creating a smoke-free policy for the building.

Live Smoke Free focuses on the Twin Cities metro area with grant funding from the Minnesota Department of Health.

To learn more about Live Smoke Free, visit www.mnsmokefreehousing.org.

Research in Condos, Townhomes, and other Owner-Occupied Multi-Housing Buildings

In 2009, the Center for Energy and Environment, the Public Health Law Center, and ANSR, conducted research to determine what residents and property managers thought about secondhand smoke in common interest communities. In addition, the Public Health Law Center conducted legal research about implementing and enforcing smoke-free policies in such communities.  The following fact sheets provide a summary of findings from all three research areas. More information can be found on Live Smoke Free's Research web page.

• Smoke-Free Common Interest Communities:
  Results of a Survey of Minnesota Owner-Occupants
   
• Smoke-Free Common Interest Communities:
  Results of a Survey of Minnesota Property Managers
   
• Smoke-Free Common Interest Communities:
  Legal Fact Sheet

Resources Available from Live Smoke Free

Live Smoke Free has materials for renters, property managers and owners, condo/townhome owners, policy makers, and local public health offices. Many of these materials are available for download at www.mnsmokefreehousing.org. Materials include

• model smoke-free lease addendum/policy language
  

• factsheets on the benefits of adopting a smoke-free policy
  

• step-by-step guides on adopting a policy
  

• research on secondhand smoke in multi-housing
  

• a directory of smoke-free multi-housing buildings in Minnesota
  

• signs for smoke-free buildings to help promote the smoke-free policy
  

• signs for all Minnesota apartment buildings to promote smoke-free indoor common areas