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The Air District has three major projects that provide home air filtration units to individuals most vulnerable to wildfire smoke and air pollution.

The Air District’s Clean Air Filtration Program aims to provide access to high efficiency air filtration to help those who are most vulnerable to wildfire smoke and air pollution. This page provides a comprehensive look at all ongoing and upcoming Air District partnerships and efforts to reduce health impacts from wildfire smoke and improve health equity across the Bay Area.

The Air District is working with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and the West Oakland Health Council, through the Clean Air Filtration Program, to provide portable air filtration units to low-income residents of West Oakland diagnosed with a respiratory illness.

The Air District is partnering with Regional Asthma Prevention Management, or RAMP, a project of the Public Health Institute, to provide portable air filtration units to low-income residents diagnosed with poorly-controlled asthma who are enrolled in the state’s Asthma Mitigation Project to receive in-home asthma care services.

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The Air District is announcing a significant expansion of the Clean Air Filtration Program, which will provide portable air filtration units to unhoused and low-income residents in impacted communities as well as to emergency and cooling centers Bay Area-wide. This is the first program of its kind and will help mitigate the potential health impacts of wildfires, especially for the Bay Area’s most vulnerable residents.

The Air District's Board of Directors approved allocating $4 million in Community Air Protection Incentives funding to support home and school air filtration programs in Bay Area communities at their June 4 meeting. As part of this initiative, the Air District Board authorized up to $1.3 million of upgrades in public schools in Richmond, North Richmond, San Pablo, and Tara Hills. An additional $1.7 million will be used to expand air filtration upgrades in schools in Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco, and $1 million will be allocated to the Air District’s Home Air Filtration program.

Oct 31, 2024 ... Home Air Filtration Partners – Current and Former Last Updated 10/31/2024 Partnership Partner Name Communities Served County Type Local Health Bay Area Community Health East San Jose Santa ...

Oct 18, 2021 ... NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 14, 2021 CONTACT: Ralph Borrmann, 415.760.0285 Air District to provide home air filtration units in West Oakland Program will protect ...

Sep 25, 2023 ... The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s Home Air Filtration Program: Lessons Learned and Tips for Replication July ...

Aug 30, 2021 ... NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2021 CONTACT: Aaron Richardson, 415.760.0242 Air District expands Clean Air Filtration Program to all Bay Area counties Program ...

Aug 9, 2021 ... NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 10, 2021 CONTACT: Aaron Richardson, 415.760.0242 Air District launches first indoor air filtration program for Bay Area’s most ...

Sep 1, 2021 ... AGENDA: 14 Update on Clean Air Filtration Program Board of Directors Meeting September 1, 2021 Tracy Lee, Manager Compliance and Enforcement Division TracyLee@baaqmd.gov Bay Area Air Quality ...

Sep 13, 2021 ... AGENDA: 3 Authorization to Execute Contract Amendments for Production System Software Board of Directors Special Meeting September 15, 2021 Blair L. Adams Joy Chen Information Systems Officer ...

Sep 14, 2021 ... AGENDA: 3 Authorization to Execute Contract Amendments for Production System Software Board of Directors Special Meeting September 15, 2021 Blair L. Adams Joy Chen Information Systems Officer ...

Jul 1, 2022 ... BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMMUNITY EQUITY, HEALTH, AND JUSTICE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE MEMBERS DAVINA HURT – CHAIR TYRONE JUE – VICE-CHAIR MARGARET ABE-KOGA PAULINE RUSSO CUTTER JOHN GIOIA DAVID HAUBERT SERGIO ...

Nov 25, 2025 ... Bay Area Air Quality Management District 375 Beale Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 749-5073 Community Equity, Health, and Justice Committee Meeting Wednesday, May 14, ...

Jun 27, 2022 ... BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEMBERS DR. JUAN AGUILERA HANA MENDOZA FERNANDO CAMPOS RIO MOLINA WILLIAM GOODWIN MAYRA PELAGIO MS. MARGARET GORDON CHARLES REED ARIEANN ...

Aug 5, 2021 ... HOME AIR FILTRATION PROGRAM FOR ASTHMA MITIGATION The Air District’s Home Air Filtration Program supports BAY AREA ASTHMA HOME the state’s Asthma Mitigation Project, which provides a VISITING ...

Jul 14, 2023 ... AGENDA: 17 Consider Authorization of Employee Compensation Plan Board of Directors Meeting July 19, 2023 John Chiladakis Acting DEO, Finance and Administration jchiladakis@baaqmd.gov Bay Area Air ...