From the Health Department:
McHenry County is Accepting Lead Safe Homes Applications
WOODSTOCK, Ill. – McHenry County residents with lead paint in their homes still have time to enroll in the Lead Safe Homes Program to remove it.
In order to be eligible to participate in the program, the home must have been built prior to 1978, and must have a pregnant woman or child younger than six living in it (or spending a significant amount of time in it).
The program is free to participants, but is limited to households at or below 80% of the area median income for McHenry County; you can find the income limits at https://bit.ly/48Z3I4k.
Just under 40% of McHenry County’s housing units were built prior to 1978, when the federal government banned the manufacture of lead-based house paint.
For a family of four, the household income could not exceed $89,700.
You can learn more about the county’s Lead Safe Homes Program and fill out the application at www.mchenrycountyil.gov/leadsafehomes.
For questions, contact Community Development Specialist Connie Jensen at CRJensen@mchenrycountyil.gov, or at 815-334-4088.
