The New York Housing Authority has lied for a long time about checking apartments for lead paint
The U.S. Department of Investigation has determined that the City Housing Authority (NYCHA) hid the fact that the city’s houses and apartments were not inspected for many years. The report provided by the department stated that the head of the Office, Shola Olatoye and other high-ranking officials, knew that the inspection was irresponsible, but claimed that all necessary checks had been carried out.
Housing spokeswoman Joan Weinberg admitted that authorities have begun to fake inspection protocols since 2016. The city has about 55,000 apartments in which lead paint was used. Many apartments have families with children, a large number of people have small children under the age of six.
By law, such apartments must undergo a mandatory inspection every year. The purpose of the checks is to find the dangerous effect on people that occurs due to lead paint and to prevent this effect. Lead paint becomes very dangerous if it crumbles dry and gets on radiators or window sills. Inhaling these dangerous particles, you risk increasing the level of lead in the blood.
In order to prevent lead poisoning in adults, and especially in young children, NYCHA must conduct thorough annual inspections. But as it turned out, from 2012 to 2014, no inspections were checked at home; in 2016, the fact of verification was also not established. For each year, the department submitted fake reports, which indicated that everything was in order with the paint.
