Healthy Housing in the News

Gov Larry Hogan's top housing official said Friday that he wants to look at loosening state lead paint poisoning laws, saying they could motivate a mother to deliberately poison her child to obtain free housing Kenneth C Holt, secretary of Housing, Community and Development, told an audience at...

A new report from Providence Water finds some homes served by the water authority may be exposed to elevated levels of lead Read more on Rhode Island Public Radio's website

The $34 million federal grant is the result of an effort to alter how the two central Maine cities fight lead poisoning Leaders of the effort made two fundamental changes to the way they approached the problem: one, coordination among groups rather than carving off narrow focus areas; and two, a...

Thousands of Maine children and hundreds of thousands across the country are being exposed to poisonous lead paint because a federal law designed to protect them is barely being enforced Read part 3 of 4 in Pine Tree Watchdog Read part 1 and part 2

Years after the date at which there were to be no more lead-poisoned children in Maine, there still are many And that means hundreds of children per year are condemned to a lifetime of less -- less intelligence, less education, less earning power Read part 2 of 4 in Pine Tree Watchdog See...