HUD’s Offices of PIH, Multifamily Housing Programs, and Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes posted a joint Notice on 1/31/2022, requiring carbon monoxide (CO) alarms or detectors in their HUD-assisted housing programs starting December 27, 2022.

Section 101, “CO Alarms or Detectors in Federally Insured Housing” of Title I of Division Q, Financial Services Provisions and Intellectual Property, of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Pub. L. No. 116-260, 134 Stat. 2162 (2020) (“the Act”), requires CO alarms or detectors be installed in certain HUD-assisted housing within two years of enactment and in a manner that meets or exceeds the standards described in Chapters 9 and 11 of the 2018 publication of the International Fire Code (IFC).

• reminds owners and operators of Project Based Rental Assistance (PBRA), Public Housing, Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV), Project Based Vouchers (PBV), Supportive Housing for the Elderly (Section 202) and Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities (Section 811) properties of CO poisoning risks in housing;
• identifies resources for preventing and detecting exposure;
• provides notice of the requirement for alarms or detectors to be installed in certain HUD-assisted housing by December 27, 2022; and
• provides initial information and guidance to assist O/As with educating tenants on health hazards in the home, including CO poisoning, lead poisoning, asthma induced by housing-related allergens, and other housing-related preventable outcomes, to help advance primary prevention and prevent future deaths and other harms.

HUD plans to develop CO materials that will be posted to HUD’s website and available for download without cost. Read Housing Notice H-2022-01 here.