Live Online Q&A for 12/18/2018 Webinar

- We are a company doing IAQ inspections , mostly residential. 

Issue: Accentuated disinterest of addressing and solving indoor environment issues or in general IAQ concerns. 

- Whow is up to getting in a colaboration finding ways of addressing this. It is a fiduiary responsibily to address IAQ concerns once they are found, and we need a way to raise the awareness of the real impact of these issues on people's quality of life (current and future). Who is available to work on this.

Gabriel Hernandez

I get calls from occupants all the time about dampness and mold growth.  Many times the occupants have contacted code enforcement officials who respond by "we don't inspect for mold".  I see this an issue from both sides. 

1.  how do we get occupants to think past mold to understand the reason is mold growth is present is that materials and contents have been persistently damp and if the problems are beyond the tenant's control frame the problems as maintenance and repairs

Have you had any problems with asthmatic children being exposed to pesticides when applied in housing units?

Which parties/organizations were most critcial to buy-in for Bob's ordinance adoption?

In cooperation with our vendor doing home visits, City of Dallas Code Enforcement and the EPA Regional Office, we implemented an environmental assessment at part of our asthma education home visits. We have done 50,  56% had housing code violations. 16% led to reports to the City.  We are working to geomap where our higher risk asthmatics are. We have three zip codes were over 10% of total members have high acuity asthma as measured by our predictive modeling tool. These are areas with high concentration of multi family, non high rise housing

Does your county appraisal data somehow indicate that the building is a rental property?

Do you have a rental licensing program? Or a rental registry? I'm not clear on that is the "online registration"

What sort of credentials do you require for the third party inspectors? 

Who performs the inspections on rental units in Dallas? is it a code enforcement officer? is it done every single time that the apartment unit turns over? If so, how do you find out that hte unit is turning over? 

I am on the line from Dallas Area Interfaith and Parkland Community Health Plan to answer any questions. Barry Lachman, MD, MPH