Healthy Homes

Environmental hazards in the home harm millions of children each year. In 1999, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development launched its Healthy Homes Initiative to protect children and their families from housing-related health and safety hazards, hazards like making sure there is no lead paint in the home.

The Healthy Homes Initiative addresses multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home. The Initiative takes a holistic approach to these activities by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. The Healthy Homes Initiative has expanded its Lead Hazard Control programs to environmental health and safety concerns including: mold, lead, allergens, asthma, carbon monoxide, fleas, pesticides, and radon.

Can I Make a Difference? Healthy Homes Grants

Healthy Homes focuses on researching and demonstrating low-cost, effective home hazard assessment and intervention methods, as well as on public education that stresses ways in which communities can mitigate housing-related hazards. The Healthy Homes Demonstration Program and Healthy Homes Technical Studies are two grant programs. Eligible activities may include:

• Developing low-cost methods for hazard assessment and intervention
• Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions
• Building local capacity to educate residents and mitigate hazards
• Developing and delivering public-education programs

How to Apply for a Grant

Healthy Homes grants are awarded to non-profits, for-profit firms, state and local governments, federally-recognized Indian Tribes and colleges and universities, located in the United States. Unfortunately, HUD does not make awards directly to individuals. The Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control oversees seven grant programs.The Guidelines address lead hazards posed by paint, dust, and soil in the residential environment.

1) Lead-based Paint Hazard Control Program: 30 grants of up to $3M per grant. Applicants must provide a 10% match (non-federal) to participate.
2) Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration Program: to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately owned housing. There are 12 grants of up to $4M per grant. Applicants must provide a 25% match (non-federal) to participate.
3. Operation Lead Elimination Action Program (LEAP): 6 grants of up to $2M per grant. Applicants are not required to provide a match to participate, but are evaluated (in part) on the amount of leveraged funds dedicated to the applicant's proposal.
4. Lead Outreach Program (LOR): raise public awareness of childhood lead poisoning prevention, provide training and education. 4 grants of up to $500,000 per grant. Applicants must provide a 10% match (non-federal) to participate.
5. Lead Technical Studies Program (LTS): 5 grants of up to $1M per grant. Applicants are not required to provide a match to participate.
6. Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program (HHTS): 3 cooperative agreements of up to $1M per agreement. Applicants are not required to provide a match to participate.
7. Healthy Homes Demonstration Program (HHD): education and outreach that furthers the goal of protecting children from environmentally induced illness, and build capacity in the target community to assure long-term progress of healthy homes efforts. 5 cooperative agreements of up to $1M per agreement. Applicants are not required to provide a match to participate.

The goal of the Guidelines is to help property owners, private contractors, and Government agencies sharply reduce children’s exposure to lead without unnecessarily increasing the cost of housing.

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