SPRINGFIELD — A ruling is fast approaching in a federal lawsuit involving a local fair housing agency’s challenge of the state’s lead law for families with children under 6.
In 2019, the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, a Holyoke organization fighting housing discrimination, and two families with children under age 6 took the state’s Department of Public Health, the Bureau of Climate and Environmental Health, and the Massachusetts Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program to court over a claim that certain provisions violate the federal Fair Housing Act.
