UW Extension Housing Partnership With City Of Waukesha

Click here for printable application for FREE HOME WINDOW REPLACEMENTS for qualified homes!

Please view the printable APPLICATION FORM to complete and return to:  City of Waukesha, Dept. of Community Development. Lead Hazard Control Grant Program.  201 Delafield St, Suite 200.  Waukesha, WI 53188 

Grant program eligibility will be limited to City of Waukesha homes built before 1978 with occupants that meet household composition profiles and household gross income limits:  (***Please note that income levels are subject to change based on adjusted County of Waukesha median household income data, please call 262-524-3752 for more information)

For educational resource for parents, home-owners and rental-property owners, see ‘Look Out For Lead‘ (English/Spanish) for important information!

Do you know the FACTS of lead in our Waukesha community?  Lead poisoning is:

Destructive:  Lead poisoning threatens the health and long term well being of children; coma, seizures or death can occur in the most severe cases.  Limited exposure can also have life-long impacts of aggressivity, hyperactivity, kidney disease, diabetes, and debilitating cognitive deficits.  Until the age of 6, children should be tested to reduce risks.

Preventable:  Residential homes containing lead-based paint remain the leading source of poisoning.   Actually one-quarter of existing WI homes were built prior to 1950 when lead-based paint was widely used!  Eliminating lead hazards in older homes would significantly reduce the lead poisoning threat in our communities.

Costly:  Lead poisoning affects not only individuals and their families but our whole society!  Consider this: Increased expenses for medical care, special education, juvenile and adult correctional programs, case management and interventions, lifelong loss of earnings, higher healthcare premiums and increased expenses for Medicaid could all result with a single case of lead poisoning.  Each case that is prevented total a estimated savings of $40,000!

Excerpts from:  Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Division of Public Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Health.  The Legacy of Lead:  The Report on Childhood Lead Poisoning in Wisconsin 2008  PPH 45109 (5/08) 

Call 262-524-3752 for more information!