CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
Vice President Joe Biden toured a low-income housing project Friday in South Los Angeles and announced that the federal government will offer nearly $100 million in stimulus funds to help eliminate dangerous lead-based paint and other health hazards from low-income homes.
“This is a particular plague that adversely hurts children under 6,” Biden told a crowd of residents and community leaders gathered in the courtyard of the Esperanza Community Housing Corp. He was joined by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) and Housing and Urban Development Deputy Secretary Ron Simms.
About $17 million will come to California to help improve 1,800 homes. The Esperanza organization will receive about $875,000 to clean up about 225 homes and apartments in South Los Angeles communities.
-- Carla Rivera
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