Both grants are part of nearly $168 million awarded nationwide to help local communities conduct a wide range of activities to improve the conditions of families living in lower-income rental housing. "Every family deserves a safe and healthy home to raise their children," says HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson. "The funding…will help protect children from dangerous lead, fund important research into healthier housing and will create other public and private investment to improve the livingconditions of thousands of homes."
The funding includes more than $145 million to eliminate dangerous lead paint hazards in thousands of privately owned, low-income housing units.
Funds are provided through HUD's Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control and the Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration grant programs. In addition, HUD's Operation LEAP (Lead Elimination Action Program) will provide $8.9 million to stimulate private sector contributions that will enable children to grow up in homes that are free from lead-based paint hazards. HUD will also award $1.9 million in Lead Outreach grants to support public education campaigns on the hazards of lead-based paint and what parents, building owners and others can do to protect children.
Further, $1.7 million will assist local research institutions to study ways to drive down the cost and increase the effectiveness of lead hazard identification and control.
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