A: Yes!
Over 50 percent of premature deaths in the U.S. can be attributed to preventable non-medical factors, specifically behavioral, environmental, and social conditions. Life expectancy can vary as much as 25 years in communities only a few miles apart. Through its work in areas such as affordable housing, neighborhood quality, and safety, the community development field reduces the need for many high-cost health care interventions, improving the triple bottom line—better care for more people at a more efficient cost.
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New construction with ZERO long term outgassing from building materials and processes have much higher health cost savings, long term academic outcomes. Reframing indoor quality concepts and standards would use new construction money as a real investment in the future. And it would have to be paired with ZERO outgassing maintenance practices. It is an opportunity that I wish somebody would grab onto.