Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the City of Columbus, Department of Development to accept and execute a reimbursable Heathy Homes Production Grant in an amount up to $2,000,000.00 from the Office of Lead Hazzard Control and Healthy Homes in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The grant will be utilized by the Department of Development and Columbus Public Health. Per current negotiations with HUD, pre-award expenditures are authorized starting April 18, 2022. The grant agreement may be executed as early as mid-May 2022 and the grant is for 42 months.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded nearly $104.7 million to 60 non-profit organizations, and state and local government agencies located in 29 states to protect children and families from home health hazards. HUD is providing these grants through its Healthy Homes Production Grant Program which will help grantees identify health and safety hazards in low-income families’ homes. The grants will protect children and families with incomes at or below eighty percent of the area median income level by targeting significant lead and health hazards in over 7,400 low-income homes for which other resources are not available. The Healthy Homes Production Grant Program takes a comprehensive approach to addressing multiple childhood diseases and injuries in the home by focusing on housing-related hazards in a coordinated fashion, rather than addressing a single hazard at a time. The program builds upon HUD’s successful Lead Hazard Control programs to expand the Department’s efforts to holistically address a variety of high-priority housing-based health and safety hazards, such as mold and moisture, poor indoor air quality, pests, carbon monoxide, injury and safety hazards, in addition to lead-based paint.
This legislation is submitted as an emergency to allow the program’s full activities to begin the day the grant is effective.
FISCAL IMPACT: This legi...
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