Housing Health Hazards

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o $21 million in Aging in Place Modification grants to treat housing-related health and safety hazards in 3,900 homes of low-income seniors to help enable them to age in place, of which $7 million is for substantially rural communities (assumes per-unit cost of HUD would use 2027 appropriations to make approximately 12,400 homes of low-income families healthy and safe. These OLHCHH grants would benefit over 8,700 children by reducing elevated blood lead levels, asthma prevalence, and the likelihood of other illnesses and injuries. In the long term, lead remediation can mitigate the social costs of lifelong medical expenses, increased criminal activity, and lost productivity that would otherwise occur due to childhood lead poisoning. Grants awarded under the Aging in Place Modification Program would improve the quality of life for over 5,200 low-income seniors by helping them stay in their homes as they age. Outcomes, Performance Indicators, and Other Evidence The major performance indicator of accomplishments is the number of housing units of low-income families made lead-safe and/or healthy under its grant programs. For each OLHCHH grant program, the following table shows the estimated cost per housing unit treated and the estimated number of housing units to be treated under grants executed in 2027: Note: Both the cost and number are estimates rounded to hundreds; due to roun

Extracted from 2027 CJ Program LEAD, p. 2. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased. This is a different document from the one the figures above were read off — the agency prints this line's dollars in a summary table and its justification elsewhere.

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