Grant Details


Lead Hazard Reduction (LHR) Grant Program - FY 2025

Agency: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
CFDA: 14.900
Federal FON: FR-6900-N-13
Office: Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH)
Multipart Grant: No
Next Due: 08/14/2025 (Application)
Solicitation Date: 06/30/2025
   
Match Required: Yes
Match Type: Cash/In-Kind
Actual Funds: $364,500,000 (Estimated)
Award Range: $1,000,000 (Min)
Number of Awards: 50 (Estimated)
Summary:

The purpose of this program is to maximize the number of children under the age of six years protected from lead poisoning by assisting eligible applicants in undertaking comprehensive projects to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in eligible privately owned rental or owner-occupied housing populations. Awards must be used to provide assistance for pre-1978 housing.

In addition, Healthy Homes Supplemental funding is 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 through this program. Proposed projects involving abatement, repair, or rehabilitation require completion of an environmental review before work begins.

Funding will be provided for projects that advance the funding agency's mission, which 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 program supports the mission by providing funding 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 recipients will conduct as part of soliciting enrollment of target housing for treatment under the award by owners of that housing. 

For rental housing, at least 50 percent of units must be occupied by or made available to families with incomes at or below 50 percent of the area median income level, and the remaining units to families with incomes at or below 80 percent of the area median income.

For owner-occupied housing, all awards must be used to assist the principal residences of families with incomes at or below 80 percent of the area median income, and no less than 90 percent of units must be occupied by children under the age of six years, or must be units where a child under the age of six years spends a significant amount of time visiting.

The majority of the project funding must be used on direct lead hazard control activities, excluding the Healthy Homes Supplemental funds.

This program combines the funding agency's Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control (LBPHC) Grant Program and Lead Hazard Reduction Demonstration (LHRD) Grant Program, known in eCivis Grants Network as US0295 and US2342, respectively.

Eligibility Notes:

Eligible applicants are:

  • State governments
  • County or parish governments
  • City or township governments
  • Special district governments
  • Federally recognized Native American tribal governments

State or Native American tribal applicants must have an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-authorized lead abatement certification program on the submission deadline to apply. This does not pertain to cities, counties/parishes, and other units of local government.

Multiple entities may apply as a consortium; however, a lead applicant must be designated, and each entity must meet the Resolution of Civil Rights Matters threshold requirement.

Applicants applying under the highest lead-based paint abatement needs areas category must be located in the jurisdictions listed on pages 53-73 of the NOFA file.

Preference points will be awarded to projects in Promise Zones or Opportunity Zones.

Applicants may submit a single application.

Sole proprietorship organizations are not eligible.

Previous award recipients include:

  • Town of Fort Deposit (AL)
  • Jefferson Parrish (LA)
  • City of Milwaukee (WI)
  • City of New York (NY)
  • Pueblo County (CO)

Refer to the Award file for additional information regarding previous award recipients.

Eligible Applicants:
Local Government
Consortia
Native American Tribe
State Government
Application Notes:

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. ET on August 14, 2025.

Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov.

Applications must include:

  • SF 424
  • HUD 2880 (if applicable)
  • Certification regarding lobbying (if applicable)
  • SF LLL
  • HUD Form 2991 (if applicable)
  • HUD Form 50070 (if applicable)
  • HUD Form 50153 (if applicable)
  • HUD Form 2996 (if applicable)
  • Budget worksheet
  • Indirect cost information (if applicable)
  • Project narrative (15 pages max)
  • Abstract/project summary (2 pages max)

The project narrative must be double-spaced on standard-sized pages with at least one-inch margins on all sides and using a 12-point Times New Roman font. Applicants may not submit password-protected or encrypted files.

The following are required in order to submit an application:

  • Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) number
  • SAM (System for Award Management) registration

Applicants may obtain a UEI number and verify or renew SAM registration status at www.ecivis.com/sam.

Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

  • Capacity of applicant and relevant organizational experience (60 points)
  • Justification of applicant need (40 points)
  • Preference points (4 points)

Refer to pages 23-31 of the NOFA file for additional details regarding the program's evaluation criteria.

Refer to the NOFA file for additional application information.

Match Required: Yes
Match Type: Cash/In-Kind
Actual Funds: $364,500,000 (Estimated)
Award Range: $1,000,000 (Min)
Number of Awards: 50 (Estimated)
Match Notes:

Applicants must provide a match of at least 10 percent of the award amount, excluding Healthy Homes supplemental fund awards, via nonfederal cash and/or in-kind contributions.

Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds may be used as matching contributions, as long as they are specifically designated for activities and costs allowed by this program.

Other examples of eligible sources of match include:

  • Documentation of contributions from property owners
  • In-kind donated items, such as paint and other equipment used for lead-based paint hazard control
  • Discounted part of the fee or price for services or products provided at a discounted rate and used an eligible use
  • Third-party in-kind contributions

Shared costs or matching funds and contributions may not be paid by another federal award, except where the federal statute authorizing a program specifically provides that federal funds made available for such program can be applied to matching or cost sharing requirements of other federal programs.

The following may not be used as matching contributions:

  • Federal funds other than CDBG funds, such as HOME or Weatherization Assistance Program funds, or funds that are not committed for allowable uses
  • Nonfederal funds used to cover chelation or other medical treatment costs, including case management, related to children with elevated blood lead levels
Funding Notes:

Approximately $364.5 million is available to support approximately 50 awards through this program, as follows:

  • Approximately $120.1 million is for lead hazard reduction demonstration (LHRD) awards to highest lead-based paint abatement needs applicants
  • Approximately $203 million is for lead-based paint hazard control (LBPHC) awards to all other jurisdiction and never-before-grantee applicants
  • Approximately $41.4 million is available for Healthy Homes supplemental related activities

The minimum award, regardless of category, is $1 million. Maximum awards will vary as follows:

  • Applicants that would be a first-time recipient or whose previous lead hazard control award ended two or more years before the deadline may apply under the LBPHC category for lead hazard evaluation and control funding for up to $4 million
  • Applicants with at least 3,500 pre-1940 occupied rental housing units either alone or through a consortium whose previous lead hazard control award is currently open or that ended less than two years before the deadline may apply under the LHRD category for up to $7 million
  • Applicants with fewer than 3,500 pre-1940 occupied rental housing units either alone or through a consortium whose previous award is currently open or that ended less than two years ago may apply under the LBPHC category for up to $5 million

Applicants eligible under the LHRD category may choose to apply under the LBPHC category instead. In addition, applicants requesting funding under the LHRD category that do not meet the applicable criteria will be put into the LBPHC category and the requested amount lowered to the maximum for the funding group based on their lead hazard reduction awared history if the requested funding exceeded that applicable funding group’s maximum.

For Healthy Homes supplemental funding, an applicant that would be a first-time recipient or whose previous lead hazard control grant ended two or more years before the deadline may apply for up to $400,000 in addition to the required lead funding. Other applicants may apply for up to $750,000 for Healthy Homes activities in addition to the required lead funding.

Awards are anticipated to be provided on September 15, 2025.

Project periods will span 48 months with an estimated project start date of October 15, 2025, and an estimated end date of October 14, 2029.

At least 65 percent of award funds must be expended on lead hazard control costs, excluding Healthy Homes supplemental funding.

Up to 10 percent of the award may be used for administrative costs, excluding Healthy Homes supplemental funding.

With the exception of the purchase or lease of up to two X-ray fluorescence analyzers to be used exclusively in the supported project, the purchase or lease of equipment is limited to equipment with a per-unit cost of $5,000 or less.

Funds may not be used for:

  • Purchase of real property
  • Chelation or other medical treatment costs, including case management, related to children with elevated blood lead levels (EBLs)
  • Lead hazard evaluation or control activities in public housing; project-based Section 8 housing; housing for the elderly; housing for persons with disabilities; any zero-bedroom dwelling, unless any child who is less than six years of age resides or is expected to reside in such housing; or housing built after 1977
  • 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 funding agency, EPA, and/or Department of Justice settlement agreement, consent decree, court order, or other similar action
  • Activities that do not comply with the Coastal Barrier Resources Act
  • Lead hazard control or rehabilitation of buildings located in areas identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as having special flood hazards, unless the conditions on page 14 of the NOFA file are met

In August 2023, 36 awards ranging from $1,345,195 to $7,997,798 were issued through this program. In September 2022, over $125 million was distributed via 26 awards. Refer to the Award file for details.

Contacts:

Damian Slaughter
(202) 725-5749
olhchh.nofa@hud.gov

Agency Address
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
451 7th Street, SW
Washington, D.C. 20410

Contact Notes:

Questions should be directed to Damian Slaughter.

Applications must be submitted online at www.ecivis.com/grants.gov.

The agency address provided is for reference purposes only.

Files:
NOFA File: US16307_NOFA_FY2025.pdf (2.9 Mb)
Other Pre-Award File: US16307_FONSI_FY2025.pdf (358.7 Kb)
Award File: US16307_Award_FY2025.pdf (2.4 Mb)
Application File: US16307_Application_FY2025.zip (209.6 Kb)
File Notes:

The NOFA file contains the full solicitation for this program. The Application folder contains the required forms for submission. The FONSI file contains the finding of no significant impact under the National Environmental Policy Act statement for this program. The Award file contains information on previous award recipients.

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Grant Categories
Community Development
Health, Prevention/Treatment
Housing
Human Services