JUST IN: US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) moves to require carbon monoxide detectors in public housing; announcement follows an NBCNews investigation finding at least 13 carbon monoxide poisoning deaths in public housing since 2003.
The Allen Benedict Court public housing complex near downtown Columbia, South Carolina, where two residents died of carbon monoxide poisoning in January 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.The Department of Housing and Urban Development is drafting the first federal rule requiring carbon monoxide detectors in public housing, after anfrom the hazardous gas in federally subsidized housing since 2003, NBC News found.
on Thursday, announcing the agency’s plans to move forward with the new requirement in both publicly and privately owned HUD housing. HUD currently does not require carbon monoxide detectors in public housing, despite past deaths and federal recommendations for all households with fuel-fired appliances or attached garages to install the devices. The new rule would apply to federally subsidized public housing that meets those guidelines.HUD said that it would use a formal rulemaking process to require the carbon monoxide detectors.
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