Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program in United States

Deadline: 14-Aug-25

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is accepting applications for Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program to assist units of local government in undertaking comprehensive programs to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately-owned rental or owner occupied housing populations.

Objectives

The OLHCHHs mission involves reducing health and safety hazards in homes of families, particularly those with low incomes, and conducting public outreach on the health and safety of homes. This NOFO supports the mission by making awards to state, tribal, and local governments to address lead-based paint hazards and other housing-related hazards in homes being treated for lead-based paint hazards, and through the outreach to their communities that grantees will conduct as part of soliciting enrollment of target housing for treatment under the grant by owners of that housing.

Purpose

The purpose of the LHR grant program is to maximize the number of children under the age of six protected from lead poisoning by assisting states, cities, counties/parishes, Native American Tribes or other units of local government in undertaking comprehensive programs to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately owned rental or owner occupied housing populations. In addition, there is Healthy Homes Supplemental funding available to enhance the lead-based paint hazard control activities by comprehensively identifying and addressing other housing hazards that affect occupants’ health in homes being treated under the LHR grant. Proposed projects involving abatement, repair or rehabilitation require completion of an environmental review before work begins.

Funding Information

Funding of approximately $364,500,000 is available through this NOFO. Subject to appropriations, HUD reserves the right to award fiscal year 2026 funds based on this NOFO competition.
Additional funds may become available for award. Use of these funds is subject to statutory constraints. All awards are subject to the selection process contained in this NOFO.
Of the approximately $364,500,000 available through this NOFO:
- approximately $120,100,000 is for Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration (LHRD) grants (to Highest Lead-Based Paint Abatement Needs applicants),
- approximately $203,000,000 is for Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control (LBPHC) grants (to All Other Jurisdiction and Never-Before-Grantee applicants),
- approximately $41,400,000 is available for Healthy Homes Supplemental related activities.
Length of Performance Period: 48-month project period and budget period.

Ineligible Costs

You may not use grant funds for any of the following activities: a. Purchase of real property.
- Purchase or lease of equipment having a per-unit cost in excess of $5,000, except for the purchase or lease of up to two (2) X-ray fluorescence analyzers to be used exclusively by the grant program.
- Chelation or other medical treatment costs, including case management, related to children with elevated blood lead levels (EBLLs). Non-federal funds used to cover these costs may not be counted as part of the matching contribution.
- Lead hazard evaluation or control activities in public housing, project-based Section 8 housing, housing for the elderly, housing for persons with disabilities, or any 0-bedroom dwelling or housing built after 1977. However, elderly, disabled or 0-bedroom dwellings are eligible for grant funds if a child who is less than six years of age resides or is expected to reside in such housing.
- Complete or gut rehabilitation, demolition of housing units or detached buildings.
- Lead hazard evaluation or control activities in housing covered by a pending or final HUD, EPA, and/or Department of Justice (DOJ) settlement agreement, consent decree, court order or other similar action regarding violation of the Lead Disclosure Rule (24 CFR part 35, Subpart A, or the equivalent 40 CFR part 745, subpart F), or by HUD or DOJ regarding the Lead Safe Housing Rule (24 CFR part 35, subparts BR).
- Activities that do not comply with the Coastal Barrier Resources Act (16 U.S.C. § 3501).
- Lead-hazard control or rehabilitation of a building or manufactured home that is located in an area identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. §§ 4001 4128) as having special flood hazards unless: The community in which the area is situated is participating in the National Flood Insurance Program in accordance with the applicable regulations (44 CFR parts 5979), or less than a year has passed since FEMA notification regarding these hazards; and Where the community is participating in the National Flood Insurance Program, flood insurance on the property is obtained in accordance with section 102(a) of the Flood Disaster Protection Act (42 U.S.C. § 4012a(a)).