Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes

Visit OLHCHH's Grant Opportunities page to learn more. 

HUD’s main goal is to ensure everyone in the United States can live in an affordable, healthy home. The Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes programs work to create new ways to improve homes, share important information that people can use to make their homes healthier, fund programs that help make homes healthier and safer, and inform on how to prepare for and adapt to extreme weather and natural disasters.

These programs focus on:

• Developing healthier, stronger homes by working to make every home in the country a place where people can live healthy and adapt to climate change
• Finding and fixing dangers by looking for elements in homes that cause illness and injury and finding ways to get rid of the dangers
• Understanding better homes by studying how to make homes safer, healthier, and climate adaptive while improving affordability
• Helping communities help themselves by providing advice and support to communities to develop capacity to make homes better

Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH) programs aim to help all Americans, especially children and persons who are at a higher risk when exposed to health and safety hazards, have a healthy and safe home.

• The Programs Division provides program management, oversight, and technical assistance for OLHCHH's grant programs.

• The Programs and Regulatory Support Division ensures regulatory compliance with the Lead-Based Paint Disclosure Rule and the Lead Safe Housing Rule and provides program & technical support to our grantees and stakeholders.

• Enforcement & support for the Lead Regulations are significant functions of the group, as well as outreach, technical assistance & guidance on lead and healthy homes issues. OLHCHH Contact Information by Region.

• The Grant Services Division provides the overall supervision of the grant's management life cycle. This consists of administrative, negotiation, awarding, ensuring compliance to meet federal regulations or agency policies, financial audits, regulatory review & award closeout for the OLHCHH's grant & cooperative agreement.

• The Policy and Standards Division develops healthy homes guidelines & standards, oversees research studies, & provides technical assistance on policy issues for OLHCHH & other HUD Program Offices.

• The Post-Disaster Healthy Housing Resources page informs users on the essentials of healthy homes for post-natural disaster restoration of homes, including the principles & technical aspects of the safe & proper response & removal of mold, asbestos, lead, & other hazards & unsafe conditions.