The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has doled out an additional $3 million to the city of Boston in its ongoing lead abatement program, the mayor’s office said today.

That brings the total the Lead Safe Boston program has received to root out lead paint in low-income housing to more than $30 million since 1993.

According to a recent report by the Boston Public Health Commission, the percentage of screened children with elevated blood lead levels steadily declined between 1995 and 2008 by as much as 91 percent. In 1995, 13.5 percent of children screened for lead in the blood had elevated lead levels, compared to 2008, when the figure was 1.2 percent.

"Boston continues to lead the way on housing issues, and this latest funding award is a great affirmation of our work," Mayor Thomas M. Menino said in a press release. "Despite the challenge of being a city with older housing stock and weather extremes, we continue to make great progress in the reduction of childhood lead poisoning in Boston. This money will allow us to make more homes safe and healthy for Boston families. I want to encourage folks to utilize these important resources, and help us eliminate this preventable disease."