| HUD No. 19-153 HUD Public Affairs (202) 708-0685 |
For Release Thursday October 10, 2019 |
HUD AWARDS $8.4 MILLION TO STUDY LEAD AND OTHER HEALTH HAZARDS
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded nearly $8.4 million to seven universities and two other research institutions to improve the Department's and the public's knowledge of housing-related health and safety hazards, including the development of new methods for identifying and mitigating lead-based paint hazards that pose a particular health risk to young children.
HUD's Lead and Healthy Homes Technical Studies Program supports the development of new scientific techniques to assess and control a variety of home-related health risks including lead, pesticides, secondhand tobacco smoke, cockroach allergens, and indoor air pollutants.
"Today, we make an investment in the science behind protecting families from potentially dangerous lead and other home health hazards," said HUD Secretary Ben Carson. "As a doctor for many years, I witnessed how lead and other hazards can impact young children. "You can't be healthy if your home is sick and these grants will improve our knowledge about how to improve living conditions inside our homes."
The overall goal of the Lead Technical Studies Program is to gain knowledge to improve the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of methods for evaluation and control of residential lead-based paint hazards, and the overall goal of the Healthy Homes Technical Studies (HHTS) program is to advance the recognition and control of priority residential health and safety hazards and more closely examine the link between housing and health.
HUD is awarding grants under these programs to the following applicants (read more about what these institutions will seek to study):
| LEAD TECHNICAL STUDIES GRANT AWARDS | |||
State |
Recipient |
City |
Amount |
| Illinois | The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Chicago |
$700,000 |
| Maryland | QuanTech, Inc. | Rockville |
$611,534 |
| Massachusetts | Trustees of Boston University | Boston |
$670,799 |
TOTAL |
$1,982,333 |
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| HEALTHY HOMES TECHNICAL STUDIES GRANT AWARDS | |||
State |
Recipient |
City |
Amount |
| District of Columbia | The George Washington University | Washington |
$850,000 |
| Illinois | Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago |
$1,000,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Chicago |
$999,999 |
|
| Massachusetts | University of Massachusetts, Lowell | Lowell |
$999,999 |
| Maryland | National Center for Healthy Housing Inc. | Columbia |
$799,999 |
| North Carolina | North Carolina State University | Raleigh |
$999,295 |
| Virginia | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg |
$756,570 |
TOTAL |
$6,405,862 |
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GRANT TOTAL |
$8,388,135 |
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