Stupidity Reigns In Washington

  • Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The CBS Evening News (June 21, story 8, 2:35, Pelley) reported that the Department of Housing, which provides rental subsidies to millions of families across the US, “is aware of lead in homes that it rents to the poor, but it has a policy of waiting until a child” is actually poisoned by the lead before “any repairs are required or moves approved.” More than 2.5 million HUD-subsidized homes have “hazardous levels of lead,” but HUD’s threshold is four times higher than what the CDC recommends. HUD has proposed changing its standard to match the “tougher” CDC position, “but regulatory review takes a long time.” 

Yeah, let’s wait until children have irreversible developmental disabilities before we do anything to prevent the disability from happening in the first place. 

William G. Colvin

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