Smoking ban in effect for Las Vegas public housing
A new ban on smoking inside public housing went into effect in Clark County this week.
Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority commissioners approved the policy in March. It’s part of a 2016 decree by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that all public housing authorities implement smoke-free policies.
Residents must be at least 25 feet away from housing authority buildings. Any household that violates the smoke-free policy four times will be subject to eviction.
Use of e-cigarettes are still allowed inside public housing.
There are about 2,600 units of public housing in the Las Vegas Valley. They house more than 5,000 low-income families.
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