HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity and the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control will soon issue an updated notice dealing with the nexus of lead-based paint and familial status discrimination, and I’d like to take this opportunity to highlight these often connected issues. As a mother and grandmother whose youngest grandchild is 6 years old, this is a matter with which I am greatly concerned. Familial status discrimination means discrimination in housing against a family with a child under 6 years old or a pregnant woman. Standards for determining familial status...