NCHH:HUD Relocation Guidelines

Safe Keeping: HUD's Relocation and
Re-occupancy Guidelines

Under HUD's Lead Hazard Control Grant Program, more than 1,000 households responded to questionnaires about their experiences

Research has indicated that large increases in children's blood lead levels can occur as a result of lead abatement activities.

The very nature of lead hazard control work creates more opportunities for exposure to lead, especially among children. Research has indicated that large increases in children's blood lead levels can occur as a result of lead abatement activities unless special precautions are taken to keep children away from the work area during intervention.

An article describing the relocation activities observed during an evaluation of the HUD Lead Hazard Control program, jointly coordinated by the National Center for Healthy Housing and the University of Cincinnati (the Evaluators), was published in the December 2004 issue of the Journal of Housing and Community Development. The article evaluates the responses of 1,149 households whose dwellings were treated under the HUD LHC Grant between January 1994 (when data collection began) and October 1998 (when the last data were collected).

Also included in this article is a section called "Lessons Learned," which discusses the valuable insights grantees gained about relocation. NCHH staff conducted interviews in 2002 with 15 relocation programs, including some HUD LHC grantees. The interviews yielded several practical guidelines.

You may download the article Safe Keeping: HUD's Relocation & Re-occupancy Guidelines in Acrobat (.pdf) format.(File size 166k.)

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