HUD agrees to provide $5 million for carbon monoxide detectors in public housing after deaths

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HUD to provide $5M to install carbon monoxide detectors in public housing; follows an NBCNews investigation that revealed the lack of protections for millions of low-income tenants who live in federally subsidized rental units.

to require detectors, warning that delays could mean more lives lost. But HUD said it would need Congress to pass a new law in order to move faster. The agency is currently helping Menendez and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., to draft a bill.in March, would require carbon monoxide detectors in federally assisted housing and would provide $10 million in funding. The bill has yet to advance in either the Senate or the House.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., who introduced that bill, said she was encouraged by HUD’s announcement of funding Monday but stressed that Congress still needs to act to protect families from carbon monoxide poisoning. “Every parent deserves a safe home for them and their children, which is why I’m calling on my colleagues to codify this requirement into law and provide even more funding for public housing units to install these lifesaving devices,” Harris, who is running for president, said in a statement.

The $5 million in HUD funding, drawn from the agency’s emergency safety and security program, is restricted to local housing authorities, which oversee about 1.2 million public housing units across the country, the agency told NBC News. The funding is not available to private landlords who own and operate housing for more than 3.4 million households who receive rental assistance from HUD.

“While we welcome $5 million for the purchase and installation of carbon monoxide detectors, the funding leaves many public housing units unprotected," Menendez said in a statement."All public housing units need carbon monoxide detectors, not just some of them."

 

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Thank you fake news NBC for monitoring the many failures of HUD under the rule of Trump appointee Ben Carson, who got the job because he didn’t know anything, but took the Trump loyalty pledge.

Why? You can buy one for $9 or get a free one at most local fire departments.

I can’t tell you how many people would use their gas ovens to help heat their apartments. I saw so much of this when I was a clinic nurse for the VNA. No reason why this had to take so long to implement.

Why has this taken so long,oh yeah their poor

These places have not gone to shit overnight.

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