HUD Awards $4 MILLION to Public Housing Agencies to Protect Families from Potential Exposures to Radon in Rockford IL; Fort Wayne IN; Rockville MD; Inkster MI; Independence MO; Albany NY; Cleveland, OH; Lebanon PA; and Rock Hill SC.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes has awarded $4 million to nine public housing agencies (PHAs) to conduct radon testing and, as needed, radon mitigation in approximately 1,000 housing units. Where applicable, the funding will also support the development of PHAs’ plans for future testing and mitigation. See how agencies will use funding. 

“This radon grant program broadens HUD’s environmental interventions in the home,” said Matthew Ammon, Director of the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes. “The program also underscores the importance of our partnership with PHAs to reduce radon concentrations indoors, thereby reducing the risks of radon-induced lung cancer.”

“We are pleased to partner on this radon demonstration grant program to provide resources to PHAs for radon testing and mitigation,” said Robert Mulderig, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Public Housing Investments.  “This program will promote awareness among PHAs and other multifamily rental property managers on how to effectively measure and mitigate radon.”   

The funding, provided through HUD’s new Radon Testing and Mitigation Demonstration Program Notice of Funding Opportunity for public housing agencies, will provide HUD with important information on methods and costs for radon testing and mitigation in public housing around the country. 

HUD participates in an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-led interagency effort to increase federal agencies’ actions to address radon in their programs with a goal to save lives by increasing radon testing, mitigation, and radon-resistant new construction in the U.S. HUD’s creation and administration of the Radon Testing and Mitigation Demonstration Grant Program represents a continuation of this effort, with the support of Congressional appropriations bills.

The following is a breakdown of the funding awarded by HUD: