Buffalo forfeits more than $1 million in federal lead funds

Unspent money despite the city’s serious lead poisoning problem. One health advocate decried “major failure on behalf of the city.”

The City of Buffalo will return more than half of a $2 million federal grant it received in 2021 for lead hazard remediation.

Investigative Post in May reported that the Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency had spent only about a quarter of its Lead Hazard Reduction Program grant funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…

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