Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Asthma is an urban disease, possibly affecting as many as one in four urban children, a much higher toxicology rate than in rural areas. So naturally we deduce that something about urban buildings triggers asthmatic responses – but the causes have been much debated until a recent study fingers a likely culprit:
Hiding in plain sight?
As [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday’s post on the challenge of mold in housing ended with Paul and Wendy Meng having decided to sue their home’s builder, Drees Company, because the whole family had got sick very shortly after moving in.
What six weeks in a moldy house can do to you
Untangling the Washington Post story [...]
When mold first appeared as a new risk a decade ago, I was a skeptic.
And grumpy too
I’d seen the questionable science of ‘connective tissue disease,’ and radon before that, and the grand-daddy of them all, the asbestos-remediation hysteria. (Yes, asbestosis is a hideous disease, caused by the buildup of insoluble asbestos in the lungs, [...]
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