Lead Assistance Programs

The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has a variety of lead-based paint hazard assistance programs to assist eligible occupants in remediating and/or abatement lead-based paint hazards in pre-1978 one to ten family residential units. NJDCA’s lead assistance programs are the following:

• Federal Lead Remediation and Abatement Program (LRAP)
• State Lead-Safe Home Remediation Program
• State Single-Family Home Remediation Program

 
FOR APPLICANTS

Eligible Applications: Submission of an online application using DCAaid Portal (Lead Assistance Program Application) to a designated community-based agency or municipality.

You may qualify for help the lead assistance programs if you meet the following requirements:

• The property has presence of lead-based paint hazards;
• Your household income is within the low-to-moderate income limits;
• You live in a 1 to 10 - unit residential home built before 1978;
• The property is structurally sound.

Contact List by Agency

• Lead Assistance Contact List

Vacant/Unoccupied Units

• Vacant/Unoccupied Unit form

Policy and Procedures

• State Lead-Safe and Single Family Home Remediation Program Policy and Procedures and Forms

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