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29A Guide to Proactive Rental Inspection Programschangelabsolutions.org <br />CONCLUSION <br />Health and housing are tightly connected. To protect residents from an array of housing <br />related health risks – such as asthma, allergies, lead poisoning, and injury – localities <br />must ensure that local housing stock is well-maintained and in compliance with applicable <br />housing and property maintenance codes. Proactive rental inspection programs can <br />effectively achieve this by: addressing housing conditions before they become severe; <br />protecting vulnerable tenants who often fall through the cracks of a complaint-cased <br />system; and preserving critical housing stock. At the same time, PRI programs can benefit <br />landlords and communities by protecting the property values of rental housing and <br />neighboring homes. <br />There are many different ways to design a municipal PRI program. The most effective <br />programs will be tailored to the characteristics of the local rental housing stock, factor in <br />on-the-ground political and resource limitations, anticipate potential challenges in adoption <br />and implementation, and incorporate broad-based strategies to ensure that local rental <br />housing remains not only safe and healthy, but stable and affordable for all tenants.