New Haven has roughly 50,000 units of housing, he wrote, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Around 41,300 of those units, or 83 percent, were built before 1978, and therefore almost certainly still have lead paint.
(Ficklin Media CommentaryThis is an economic opportunity for remediation and employment/training, a legal redress opportunity to retrieve money and to fine/sue the lead paint manufacturers.To train youth like in a lead free city youth corp, to recruit teen and young adult health workers to convass their neighborhood or even just there block, to create an interactive map of affected housing stock, to enlist the Yale School of Public Health and redirect some of it's resources, to maximize the existence of CARE, to maximize the existence of the Fair Rent Commission....)
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