Lead Hazard Control for High Risk Areas

This funding will be made available to public housing agencies that operate the housing choice voucher program to conduct lead hazard screenings or lead-risk assessments during housing quality standards inspections of pre-1978 units in which a family with a voucher resides or expects to reside, and has or expects to have a child under age 6 residing in the unit, to demonstrate whether such a process preserves rental housing availability and affordability.

HUD-assisted public housing agencies that operate the housing choice voucher program.

Families owning homes who earn less than 80% AMI with children under 6.

In evaluating applications for funding, HUD will rate and rank applicants based on four rating factors plus the possibility of adding preference points. The rating factors are on: Capacity of the applicant and relevant organizational experience, Justification of applicant need, Budget Proposal, and Preference points for the applicant’s being in a Promise Zone. The description of capacity will include the applicant’s description of how it will manage the lead risk assessment demonstration program, and how it has the organizational capacity and experience to manage the program. The justification of applicant need will include, among a range of justification elements, the applicant’s quantitative assessment of the local population of families that requested housing choice voucher units at the time of application and over the preceding year, the number of vouchers provided and fulfilled with housing over the preceding year, the number of such voucher-provided families that had children