Preventing lead poisoning in New York City: priorities for lead abatement in housing.

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The major challenge for lead poisoning prevention programs is to increase the availability of lead-safe housing as quickly as possible. The approach proposed by the City of New York maximizes the impact of the limited resources available to address this problem. The approach, however, is based on an assumption that in the short-term, modest lead hazard reduction measures such as restoring surfaces to an intact condition is adequate for most units and that more extensive abatement should be reserved for the relatively fewer units in which there is a high risk of exposure of lead-poisoned children reside. Ideally, this plan would be implemented with voluntary efforts to abate lead hazards when other renovation or remodeling occurs or when dwellings are vacant and more extensive abatement work can be performed at lower cost and without the attendant difficulty of abating occupied units. Approaches ranking hazards and implementing varying levels of hazard reduction must be fully evaluated

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