Grant designed to protect families from lead, home hazards
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam recently announced that Virginia has been awarded $5.6 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to help protect families from lead-based paint and home health hazards.
The $5 million grant from the Lead Based Paint Hazard Reduction Program and $600,000 in Healthy Homes Supplemental funding will help the Commonwealth address lead hazards in 232 housing units, providing safer homes for low- and very low-income families with children. Virginia will also perform healthy homes assessments in 81 units, and work with other medical and social service providers.
Virginia is one of only nine states and is among 77 state and local government agencies to receive funding from HUD through the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes. The Office works to promote local efforts to eliminate dangerous lead paint and other housing-related health hazards from lower income homes, stimulate private sector investment in lead hazard control, support cutting-edge research on methods for assessing and controlling housing-related health and safety hazards, and educate the public about the dangers of hazards in the home.
