Mayor Admits Depth of HA Lead-Paint Woes; Testing 130,000 Apts.

While Mayor de Blasio announced plans July 9 to test 130,000 apartments—the majority of units at the Housing Authority—for lead paint, a Federal Judge questioned whether the consent decree that will place the agency under the oversight of a monitor will be enough to turn it around.

The Mayor, who has been deluged with criticism over the city’s sluggish response to the problem and lies about its efforts, announced the $80-million project on NY1’s Inside City Hall. “We’re going to go and literally go through all of NYCHA and do an inspection of every apartment, even if a child is not there, every apartment that might still have lead in it,” he told Errol Louis. “This is a massive undertaking, it’s never been done by NYCHA, or the City of New York previously.”