HUD AWARDS $1.9 MILLION TO LOS ANGELES HOUSING DEPARTMENT TO REDUCE HEALTH AND SAFETY HAZARDS IN LA LOW-INCOME HOMES
Funding will remove or reduce home health and safety hazards and improve energy efficiency

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today awarded $1.9 million in grants to children and families living in Los Angeles from health and safety hazards in their homes. The grants will support efforts to control asthma and allergy triggers such as mold, moisture, mitigate safety hazards in homes, and improve energy efficiency. Grants will also support research to advance methods for hazard reduction.

The grant funding announced today is part of $18 million HUD is awarding nationwide to clean up health hazards in thousands of homes, train workers, and increase public awareness about reducing and preventing health hazards in their homes.

"HUD is committed to providing healthy and safe homes as part of our mission to help make the nation's housing more healthy and sustainable," said HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. "These grants will help communities to protect families and children from significant health and safety hazards."

The City of Los Angeles Housing Department will be awarded $1,860,000 in Healthy Homes Production Grant Program funds to identify and correct hazards in housing occupied by vulnerable low-income residents throughout
the City. The LAHD will enroll a minimum of 300 units; conduct healthy homes assessments. Provide physical and behavioral interventions in 275 units; provide education and outreach to 1,200 individuals; and provide healthy
homes certification training to 30 individuals. The City will partner with Coalition for Economic Survival; Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment; Rebuilding Together; Los Angeles Conservation Corps; City of Los Angeles Department
of Water and Power; Los Angeles County Environmental Health Healthy Homes Inspections; Healthy Homes Collaborative; Systematic Code Enforcement Program; Air Quality Management District; Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles; California Department of Pesticide Regulation; Children's Hospital Los Angeles; Coalition for
Clean Air; Inquilinos Unidos; LAUSD Board Member Nury Martinez; Maravilla Foundation; Pacoima Beautiful; Physicians for Social Responsibility/LA; Smokefree Apartment House Registry; South Central Family Health Care; and Dr. Rufus Edwards, School of Medicine University of California, Irvine. Contact Sally Richman, (213) 808-8653, sally.richman@lacity.org

The funding announced today will go to cities, counties, states and universities to eliminate dangerous health and other safety hazards in thousands of privately-owned, low-income housing units. These funds are provided through HUD's Healthy Homes Production, (HHP) Lead and Healthy Homes Technical Studies (LTS, HHTS), and Asthma Interventions in Public and Assisted Multifamily Housing (AIPAMH) grant programs.

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