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City: $4.5 million HUD grant aims to address lead paint in roughly 149 Greensboro homes
Summary
Josh Mullins, the city's lead safe housing program manager, said Greensboro received a HUD grant of about $4.5 million to remediate lead-based paint; the program hopes to serve roughly 149 homes and said the city has addressed about 1,000 housing units through prior grants over the last 15–20 years.
Josh Mullins, lead safe housing program manager, described the city's lead-remediation work on FYI Weekly and said new HUD funding will extend that effort.
Mullins said lead-based paint remains the main source of childhood lead poisoning in homes built before 1978 because chipping paint and friction at doors and windows create dust that children can ingest. He described inspection options using handheld…
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