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A public health or housing assessment (local, state, or federal) substantiates the estimate that roughly 20% of homes in Petersburg have significant lead-based paint hazards.
There is not enough independently verifiable evidence to confirm or refute the specific statistic that "approximately one in five" homes in Petersburg, Virginia have significant lead-based paint hazards. Multiple secondary outlets (e.g., MSN and trade publications) repeat this figure, but they all appear to trace back to HUD messaging rather than to a publicly available underlying survey or dataset.
Broader public health and regulatory sources from Virginia and national health organizations discuss lead hazards and provide state-level or national-level risk indicators, but they do not offer Petersburg-specific, housing-level estimates matching "one in five homes" with documented methodology. Because the only explicit support for this claim is the HUD press language itself, and no independent data source confirming the 20% estimate could be located, the statement’s accuracy cannot be reliably verified at this time.
The verdict is Unclear because the claim may be based on internal or unpublished HUD analyses, but there is no accessible, methodologically documented, Petersburg-specific evidence from independent or primary public datasets to substantiate it.