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The Providence Water Supply Board performs infrastructure work and partial lead service line replacements in a way that disproportionately increases the risk of lead exposure from drinking water for Black and Latinx residents, contrary to its responsibilities under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a group of health and environmental justice organizations. The first-of-its-kind administrative complaint was filed today with the U.S. Rhode Island’s Largest Drinking Water Utility Faces Civil Rights Complaint over Lead Contamination

We’re now over 13 months from the law’s final passage, almost a year from when communities started being able to access the funds, and about eight months from that original blog post, and we’re thrilled to share that communities have seized the opportunity and are already implementing innovative ways to use the funding ….

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With broad categories of activities that funding could support, the specific mentions of lead poisoning prevention in the interim final rule, and decisions about how to prioritize spending left up to the recipients, ARPA represented a significant chance for communities to use new money to address environmental hazards in homes. When we first wrote last fall about the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), we highlighted the huge opportunity present in the flexible recovery funding that the law provides to state, territorial, city, county, and tribal governments.

How Innovative Communities Are Using ARPA Funds to Transform Housing and Address Environmental Hazards Learn how you can be a part of this change. We channel the powerful energy and deep-rooted interests of the healthy housing movement into a force for change. With more than six million families living in substandard housing, we equip leaders across the public health, housing, and environmental sectors with the data, tools, policies, and best practices needed to improve housing quality in their communities. What NCHH Does Our mission is to ensure that everyone has a safe and healthy home.