Find It, Fix It, Fund It: A Lead Elimination Action Drive

In the wake of the Flint lead water crisis and increased national will to address the problem, NCHH and the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition have launched a bold new drive to eliminate lead poisoning. It's simple yet comprehensive: Find lead hazards, eliminate them, and build the political will to create key public investments and policies to do so. NCHH and the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition are leading initiatives to eliminate lead paint hazards and dramatically increase lead poisoning surveillance and home-based follow-up services and will support allies and partners in eliminating lead hazards in water and other sources.

Read the Find It, Fix It, Fund It talking points.

Sign up today:
  • To join Find It, Fix It, Fund It: A Lead Elimination Action Drive or one of its workgroups.
  • To add your organization’s logo to the drive. See who's joined the drive so far.
See the declaration supporting the Find It, Fix It, Fund It principles signed by over 300 attendees at the Lead and Healthy Housing Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 5, 2016.

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Guiding Principles for NCHH's Lead Advocacy

The National Center for Healthy Housing’s core principle for lead advocacy is to promote primary prevention, leading to the elimination of exposures and thus the elimination of childhood lead poisoning. Until we achieve that goal, we will also continue to press for urgently needed follow-up services for children impacted by lead.
 
NCHH believes that preventing exposures to lead-based paint, dust, and soil hazards requires robust support of all three legs of the stool for successful government action: the CDC to monitor children’s blood lead levels, HUD to control lead hazards, and EPA to set standards based on the most updated science.

NCHH's Role in Lead Advocacy

NCHH leads the national effort to:
  • Dramatically increase funding to CDC’s Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, to provide needed surveillance, outreach, education, and follow-up services nationwide, ensuring blood lead level surveillance in all 50 states.
  • Dramatically increase funding to HUD’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes to ensure that lead hazards are identified and controlled in pre-1978 low-income homes with children younger than six years old.
  • Promote financing for home-based lead follow-up services.
  • Expand lead-based risk assessments to all HUD inspection protocols.
  • Re-establish a national lead poisoning advisory committee and update national plans for eliminating lead paint hazards and providing healthy homes.
NCHH plays a major role in efforts to:
  • Update federal lead paint, dust, and soil regulations using the most recent science.
  • Promote lead poisoning research.
NCHH supports efforts to:
  • Identify and replace lead pipes and identify and eliminate other sources of lead exposure.
  • Identify and fully fund needed follow-up services to children impacted by lead.
  • Increase private resources for lead paint hazard control, including grants, tax credits, incentives, settlements, and enhanced disclosure.

Recent Actions

Appropriations
Administrative Advocacy

Legislative Advocacy

  • Provided technical and scientific advice to members of Congress on six lead poisoning prevention bills introduced in 2016 alone.
  • Recognized by Senator Jack Reed in April 2016 for efforts leading to introduction of his Title X Amendments Act improving protections of low-income children, including those living in studio and efficiency apartments. These provisions were included in bipartisan appropriations legislation passed unanimously out of committee on April 21.

National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition Advocacy

Media Advocacy

 

Find It, Fix It, Fund It Action Drive Members

We thank the following organizations for joining "Find It, Fix It, Fund It: A Lead Elimination Action Drive." Click here if you’d like to join the drive as an individual or as a representative of your organization.

Note that neither the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) nor the National Safe and Healthy Housing Coalition (NSHHC, the Coalition) recommends the products or services of any business; as such, their appearance on the Find It, Fix It, Fund It page should not be considered an endorsement.

 
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Advocates for Children of New Jersey
 Alliance for Strong Families and Communities
American Public Health Association
 ASAP Environmental, Inc.
Association of Public Health Laboratories  Assoc. of Northern California Environmental Consultants
  
Blackstone Valley Community Action Program
 

 
Childhood Lead Action Project City of Akron Housing and Community Services
City of Cleveland City of Philadelphia
Clean Water Action Coalition on Human Needs
Community Housing Partners Council for a Strong America
  
Duke University Environmental Law and Policy Clinic

  
E4Progress Planning and Engineering
 East New York Urban Youth Corps
Eastern Inspection Solutions Energy Coordinating Agency
Environmental Defense Fund
 EnviroPlan LLC
  
Fahe  First Focus
First State Community Action Agency
 
  
Georgia Dept of Community Affairs/Community Services  Georgia Department of Public Health
  
Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters in the USA
 
  
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Inform the People
  
J. Miller & Associates Julia Lead the Way Lead Poisoning Awareness Group
  
Lawrence County Community Action Program
 Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing
Lead Safe Testing, LLC Louisville Metro Dept. of Public Health and Wellness 
Loyola University Chicago School of Law LSU AgCenter (Extension Service)
  
Maine Children's Alliance
 Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Minneapolis Parents for Lead Safe Kids
  
NC Child
 Natural Resources Defense Council
  
Partnership for America's Children
 Partnership Housing, Inc.
The Pew Charitable Trusts PinnacleHealth Lead Poisoning
 Prevention and Outreach Program

Portland Housing Bureau
  
Radio Amanecer KPFG-LP 
  
State of Ohio
 
  
Trust for America's Health
 
  
University of Colorado, Denver
 University of Rochester
  
Voices for Illinois Children
 
  
Wake County Environmental Services
 Wayne State University Center for Urban Studies
West Chester University
 Westbay Community Action
Western New York Lead Poisoning Resource Center, Rochester Office