$300M to clean up housing hazards

HUD has announced a record $330 million in grants to clean up lead-based paint hazards and other housing-related health and safety hazards in low-income housing. These grants are provided through HUD's Lead Hazard Reduction and Healthy Homes Production for Tribal Housing grant programs and will direct critical funds to qualifying cities, counties, states and Native American tribal governments to eliminate dangerous lead paint hazards. Additionally, HUD has added a category of cities and counties that have "high impact neighborhoods" with high concentrations of both pre-1940 housing, low-income families, and high rates of young children with elevated blood lead levels.