StopPests IPM in Multifamily Housing Blog

Up-coming StopPests Webinars on IPM in Construction and Eliminating Cockroaches from Affordable Housing

Check out these up-coming training opportunities for housing and pest control professionals: Design and Build for Pest Prevention in Multifamily Housing Join StopPests in Housing on May 2nd, 2023 at 1:00 - 2:15 PM Eastern for a presentation on incorporating integrated pest New construction photo from American Association of Realtors... Read more →

No More Prep! A Progressive Approach to Bed Bug Preparation - Up-coming Webinar

StopPests in Housing is offering a free webinar on December 6th! Tired of making your residents prepare for bed bug treatment? Tired of all the chaos and arguing associated with prep work? While In many cases prep like this is not necessary! prep may be necessary in a small percentage... Read more →

IPM Toolkit: New Resource to Hire, Assess, and Improve Pest Management in Affordable Housing

A new resource from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health provides guidance to multifamily housing managers, owners and procurement specialists in implementing a new IPM programs, hiring contractors, and assessing and improving existing pest management programs. The guide Massachusetts Integrated Pest Management Toolkit includes a self-assessment checklist and resources on... Read more →

IPM in Multifamily Housing Live Online Course April 21st - May 12th, 2022

Live online course offered Thursdays, April 21st - May 12th, 2022 Register HERE! Course description: The IPM in Multifamily Housing Course was designed to help housing professionals understand their roles in supporting safe and effective pest control in their communities. The course outlines: how to manage pests within a housing... Read more →

New Resident Briefing Video

StopPests published a 14-minute video for residents of multifamily housing to introduce them to pests and IPM in their homes. The short video can be shown to residents at lease-signing. It covers the primary pests of housing: cockroaches, bed bugs and rodents, the health concerns associated with pests and pesticides, and the resident's role in preventing, controlling and reporting pests in their home. Read more →

Wild in the Streets

In this piece, our favorite guest blogger, Gil Bloom, cautions us as cities open back up with outdoor dining, to consider the pest friendly environment we're creating. Gil writes "IPM is by nature proactive and pest exclusion is one of the first measures. But in these pest positive environs sometimes we need to go a bit further and engage the enemy at the gates or even beyond." Read more →

Reducing Pest Infestations in Multifamily Housing

Join the Northeastern IPM Center’s StopPests in Housing Program on May 6th, 2021 from 2 p.m. to 3  p.m. Eastern for a webinar on using integrated pest management (IPM) strategies to manage two of the most troublesome and notorious pests of multifamily housing: cockroaches and mice. Read more →

Philadelphia’s Bed Bug Bill

Philadelphians may finally be able to get some sleep at night, now that the long-awaited “Bed Bug Bill” went into effect on January 1, 2021. Though experts warn not to get too cozy, as enforcement may prove difficult and the current bill is likely too focused on landlord-tenant issues to be effective in controlling bed bugs city-wide. Read more →

What’s Worse? COVID-19 or Bed Bugs? COVID, of Course!

Weighing the relative risks presented by bed bugs and COVID-19, it’s clear that the public health risk of evicting someone during a pandemic far outweighs the effort needed to address bed bug infestations. Eviction increases the risk of spreading bed bugs and, potentially, the virus. Read more →

COVID and the Inadvertent Rise of the American Roach

American Roaches are moving in. While common to the summer sidewalks of NYC they are fast becoming yet another unexpected result of COVID. Gil Bloom, ACE, Standard Pest, shares what can we do to prevent these cockroaches from taking up permanent residence in our buildings with IPM. Read more →