Passage Summary: Even though lead paint is dangerous and found mostly in old apartments, experts think that forcing landlords to strip that paint away will actually make kids eat or breathe in more lead than if it stayed there.

Reasoning: Lead is harmful to children and more prevalent in older buildings, yet laws requiring its removal from those buildings are expected to increase the amount of lead children ingest.

Analysis: The paradox here is that a policy intended to reduce lead exposure is expected to increase it. To resolve this, we need to find a side effect of the removal process that outweighs the benefits of the removal itself. Look for an answer that explains how the act of stripping paint might release lead into the environment in a more dangerous form, such as dust or fumes. This would allow both the danger of lead and the counterintuitive result of the law to be true simultaneously.