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The article discusses the role of the American Public Health Association (APHA) in defining and outlining the health role in housing. The association's Basic Health Principles of Housing and the Residential Environment outlines and documents the goals medical personnel seek to achieve in planning, building and managing housing and residential environment. The principles are being used as a significant guide in federal development of performance standards for housing and its environment. APHA-U.S. Public Heal Service Recommended Housing Ordinance developed the most important portions of the Basic Health Principles as legally enforceable minimum standards for all housing.