***MEDIA ADVISORY, THURSDAY 7/25 AT 11 AM*** WESTCHESTER COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LATIMER ANNOUNCES $4.1 MILLION FEDERAL GRANT TO ADDRESS LEAD HAZARDS IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LATIMER ANNOUNCES $4.1 MILLION FEDERAL GRANT TO ADDRESS LEAD HAZARDS IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Funding Will Ensure Safe and Healthy Affordable Homes in Westchester County.

Lead Hazard Grants are the first the County has received since 2010.

(Ossining, NY) – For the first time since 2010, Westchester County Executive George Latimer will announce $4.1 million in federal funding to conduct healthy home assessments and help low income homeowners remediate lead-based paint in their homes. Applications are now available to homeowners and renters who qualify for lead-based paint remediation through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Lead Hazard Demonstration Grant Funds, and Healthy Homes Supplemental Funds.

Thursday, July 25

11 a.m.

235 Spring Street

Ossining, New York

The investments will be used to protect families with limited resources from health hazards that can be associated with lead-based paint, and provide assistance to those who may have homes with affected surfaces. The grant will allow for 240 properties to be rehabilitated over the course of three years.