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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Healthy Homes Videos
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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.
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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.
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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.
- *NEW* SciAps has expanded the applicability of its model X-550 x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzer so that it can be used to determine if paint has lead at the 0.3 and 0.1 mg/cm2 levels; the instrument continues to be usable at the 1.0, 0.7, and 0.5 mg/cm2 levels. The performance characteristic sheets (PCSs) for using the analyzer at each of the levels are posted on the HUD Guidelines page.
- *NEW* On April 26, HUD awarded almost $15 million to 13 nonprofit organizations, in addition to a state government to assist in undertaking comprehensive programs that make safety and functional home modifications and limited repairs to meet the needs of low-income elderly homeowners that allow them to age in place.
- The National League of Cities (NLC) Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute) is hosting its “Healthy Homes Workshop” on March 14 in partnership with HUD’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH).
- 2023 Lead Hazard Reduction NOFO Information in Spanish
- Learn more about the innovative outreach techniques that the City of Memphis Housing and Community Development created during the pandemic
- Fiscal Year 2022 and 2023 Funding Opportunities
- Federal Lead Action Plan to reduce childhood lead exposures and impacts issued
- American Healthy Homes Survey (AHHS) II Project Description
- Lead-Based Paint Resources for Public Housing Authorities
- Advancing Healthy Housing: A Strategy For Action
- The Lead-Safe Housing Rule & Resources
- Resources/Tools for Home Inspectors