NO MO’ SMOKING IN PUBLIC HOUSING!

Yo, Yo, Yo where’s my lighter?, will be a thing of the past in public housing at the end of the month.  Not just on the Gulf Coast but nationwide, according to HUD, smokers won’t be able to light up in or near public housing starting July 31st.

The rule will be part of residents’ leases — along with information about how to quit smoking — and tenants who break it could be evicted, HUD has said. But eviction after just one violation “is not grounds for eviction,” and smoking on public housing premises is a civil violation, not a crime, the agency said in setting guidelines for local enforcement.

To read it for yourself check the CNN story out here >>>

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/13/health/smoking-ban-public-housing-trnd/index.html

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