Despite receiving millions of dollars in federal funding, the city of Dallas has failed to administer the program to remove lead from residents’ houses, a...
created a timeline based on documents obtained through records requests and interviews with residents.- Dallas’ housing department applied to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Supplemental grant programs- HUD announced Dallas, Waco and Longview would receive their first lead hazard control grants from a $139 million fund aimed at reducing lead exposure in children nationwide.
The Dallas housing department authorities who oversaw the program did not respond to multiple requests for interviews since February. Residents are still waiting for the lead to be removed from their bedrooms, kitchens and living rooms., Local government reporter. María Ramos Pacheco is a reporter on the local government team. Before joining The News, María was a reporter at El Paso Matters and attended the University of Texas at El Paso.
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