CLEVELAND — Cleveland’s City Council approved the Lead Safe Cleveland Ordinance in 2019. It requires all landlords in the city to have their rental properties certified as lead-safe by 2023. Under the ordinance, the lead-safe program will be rolled out by zip code through December 2022.
He said 90% of Cleveland’s housing stock is pre-1978 and that makes Cleveland ground zero for lead paint poisoning in Ohio. “The dashboard is a fruition of a lot of the thinking around how best to understand what the current state of affairs is, in regards to lead poisoning and then to track how the rollout of the ordinance,” he said. “What’s happening now? What's happened over this year as the coalition and the city have rolled out their efforts?”
According to the data, as of Sept 23., there are 614 rental properties that have achieved the certificate.