Mayor's Office of Housing to accept $2.5 million HUD lead-hazard grant to remediate 125 units

The Mayor's Office of Housing has been awarded $2,500,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control to fund remediation of lead hazards in 125 qualifying housing units, city staff told the Budget and Finance Committee.

Sonia Delgado Schomburg of the Mayor's Office of Housing said the award is the department's fifth of its kind in eight years and that the grant will fund lead hazard control work, including risk assessments, paint inspection, scopes of work and relocation of occupants during abatement. The Department of Public Health will provide $895,000 in match support; Delgado Schomburg said 57 percent of the match comes from previously appropriated community development block grant funds and the remaining 43 percent is an in-kind contribution from DPH funded by local and state sources.

Supervisor Kim asked whether the grant and matching funds will cover the units currently on MOH's qualified list and whether the city can provide neighborhood-level lists of those units. Delgado Schomburg said the award will cover the 125 qualifying units and offered to forward a breakdown of ZIP codes and neighborhoods; she noted a concentration of work in southeast neighborhoods, including ZIP codes 94110 and 94124, where paint deterioration raises exposure risk.

Delgado Schomburg said the three-year performance period will not add staff to MOH or DPH. The committee opened public comment, received none, and moved the item forward to the full Board of Supervisors with a recommendation.