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Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH)

 

The Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH) provides funds to state and local governments to develop cost-effective ways to reduce lead-based paint hazards. In addition, the office enforces HUD's lead-based paint regulations, provides public outreach and technical assistance and conducts technical studies to help protect children and their families from health and safety hazards in the home.

 

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Program Division

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  • The Programs and Regulatory Support Division ensures regulatory compliance with the Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Rule & the Lead Safe Housing Rule and provides program & technical support to our grantees & stakeholders. Enforcement & support for the Lead Regulations are significant functions of the group, as well as outreach, technical assistance & guidance on lead and healthy homes issues. OLHCHH Contact Information by Region.

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  • The Grant Services Division provides the overall supervision of the grant's management life cycle. This consists of administrative, negotiation, awarding, ensuring compliance to meet federal regulations or agency policies, financial audits, regulatory review & award closeout for the OLHCHH's grant & cooperative agreement.

 

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  • The Policy and Standards Division develops healthy homes guidelines & standards, oversees research studies, & provides technical assistance on policy issues for OLHCHH & other HUD Program Offices.

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Opportunities
 

  • The OLHCHH has increased funding available under the Lead Hazard Reduction notice of funding opportunity for local governments and certain states and tribes to undertake lead hazard reduction programs, and, optionally, to address other housing-related health and safety hazards.  The application deadline continues to be June 14.  The application package and a summary of the notice are on the Grants.gov website.

  • The OLHCHH’s Lead Risk Assessment Demonstration notice of funding opportunity for public housing authorities administering Housing Choice Voucher Programs to conduct lead hazard screens or lead-based paint risk assessments of pre-1978 housing units in which a family receiving a housing choice voucher resides or expects to reside, and has or expects to have a child under age 6 residing in the unit, while preserving rental housing availability and affordability, has applications due June 20. $50 M in grants of $200 K to $3 M are available. A summary of the notice is on HUD’s Funding Opportunities website.

  • The OLHCHH’s Lead Hazard Reduction Capacity Building notice of funding opportunity for local governments and certain states and tribes to develop the infrastructure necessary to undertake lead hazard reduction programs under the Office’s Lead Hazard Reduction grant program has applications due June 27. It is open to applicants that have not received a HUD lead hazard control grant, or been a sub-recipient of such a grant, since 1/1/2010. $50 M in grants of $500 K to $2.5 M are available. A summary of the notice is on HUD’s Funding Opportunities website.