Key Points: California, Maine, and Michigan will provide an overview of the smoke-free multi-unit housing movement and share strategies on how they have adopted and implemented smoke-free multi-unit residences, both at the voluntary level, through apartment managers and property management companies, and at the legislative level, through local (city and county) ordinances and resolutions. They will highlight their progress implementing smoke-free multi-unit housing for both market rate and affordable housing, and share their opportunities and challenges that they experienced in the process.

Depending on the community readiness, experiences, and/or the political climate, different states and/or communities will have different approaches to obtain smoke-free multi-unit residences.

Learning Objectives: Participants will obtain the tools needed to adopt and implement voluntary and legislative, and market-rate and affordable, smoke-free multi-unit housing residences.

Benefits: Smoke-free workplaces are becoming the norm in many states throughout the country. As a result, workers do not expect or desire to be exposed to secondhand smoke where they work. This social norm change has prompted citizens not to expect to be exposed to secondhand smoke where they live as well. Presenters will share their experience in obtaining smoke-free multi-unit dwellings, so others can satisfactorily promote this newest wave in the tobacco-control movement.