Lead Hazard Reduction Program
BURA and the City of Buffalo Office of Strategic Planning offers a Lead Hazard Reduction Program. Through this program homeowners can get help with lead remediation.
The program focuses on neighborhoods in Census tracts 61, 171, 37, and 38. Those areas are the city’s upper west side neighborhood and the Schiller Park neighborhood.
TO APPLY: Upper West Side /Heart of the City Neighborhoods
191 North Street, Suite Buffalo NY 14201
http://hocn.org / 716-882-7661
Schiller Park / University District CDC/Gloria J. Parks
3242 Main Street, Buffalo NY 14214
http://udcda.org / 716-832-1010
We're currently looking for contractors!
Roofers, Plumbers, Electricians, Lead and Asbestos Abatement Contractors.
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Groundbreaking for the Apartments at the Lyceum
BUFFALO, N.Y. (BURA) - The City of Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency was proud to join Community Services for Every1 during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Apartments at the Lyceum. It’s a $23 million project that will provide 42 affordable and supportive apartments. It will also transform the St. John Kanty Parish. It will also serve as a community hub for the Broadway-Fillmore area.
The city of Buffalo provided 10 lots for the project. BURA awarded $750,000 to Community Services for Every1 for the project.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (BURA)- Team BURA was out in the community this week educating residents about the hazards of lead, during the weekly city of Buffalo Clean Sweep event.
If you live in the Schiller Park area or the Upper West Side area there could be a high risk of lead in your home!
The city of Buffalo offers a Lead Hazard Reduction Program.
To qualify for the program, you must have a home built before 1978, meet income-eligibility guidelines, and have children 6 years old or younger either living or visiting the home.
Call 311 for more information! Click here to see more photos
Learn more about protecting your home from LEAD!
BUFFALO, N.Y. (BURA) – The City of Buffalo Office of Strategic Planning, Habitat for Humanity Buffalo, and the Hamlin Park Taxpayers Association are celebrating the completion of the very first house through the city’s Immediate Infill Housing Program.
The program takes properties that are not suitable for redevelopment, and immediately replaces them with a brand-new home built from the ground up!
BURA assists with funding for Eight Days of Hope Buffalo
BUFFALO, N.Y. (BURA) – Dozens of volunteers from Western New York, and across the nation, all pitched-in to help paint and repair homes in Buffalo’s Fillmore District last month.
BURA is helping to make sure this work continues in our community! The BURA Board voted today to facilitate the disbursement of $750,000 in funds to the program. These funds will help Eight Days of Hope fix more homes throughout the city in the years to come.
Along with fixing up homes in the Fillmore District, Eight Days of Hope Buffalo is making repairs to Lincoln Park located on between Amity Street and Peck Street in the Fillmore District.
Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency
920 City Hall
Buffalo, NY 14202
716-851-BURA
716-851-GROW
Bura’s Mission: "The City of Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency, strives to promote the expeditious undertaking, financing and completion of community development programs and create quality and vibrant urban living in Buffalo New York through neighborhood driven development projects. BURA achieves community development through expenditures development of and rehab of existing houses and or apartments and offering technical and financial assistance to businesses and provides technical assistance and compliance to the City of Buffalo."
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