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D.C. Housing Authority Executive Director
Tyrone Garrett was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t, he says of his lead paint problem.
One of Garrett’s first initiatives when he took over as DCHA executive director in 2017 was to take stock of a long neglected issue in D.C.’s public housing properties: lead hazards. In 2018, Garrett ordered lead risk assessments of all DCHA properties. By May of that year, when completed assessments started rolling in, the well-intentioned initiative presented him with an overwhelming mandate: Fix it, and soon.