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42 USC Sec. 1441 01/16/96

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TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 8A - SLUM CLEARANCE, URBAN RENEWAL, AND FARM HOUSING
SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

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Sec. 1441. Congressional declaration of national housing policy

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The Congress declares that the general welfare and security of
the Nation and the health and living standards of its people
require housing production and related community development
sufficient to remedy the serious housing shortage, the elimination
of substandard and other inadequate housing through the clearance
of slums and blighted areas, and the realization as soon as
feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living
environment for every American family, thus contributing to the
development and redevelopment of communities and to the advancement
of the growth, wealth, and security of the Nation. The Congress
further declares that such production is necessary to enable the
housing industry to make its full contribution toward an economy of
maximum employment, production, and purchasing power. The policy
to be followed in attaining the national housing objective
established shall be: (1) private enterprise shall be encouraged to
serve as large a part of the total need as it can; (2) governmental
assistance shall be utilized where feasible to enable private
enterprise to serve more of the total need; (3) appropriate local
public bodies shall be encouraged and assisted to undertake
positive programs of encouraging and assisting the development of
well-planned, integrated residential neighborhoods, the development
and redevelopment of communities, and the production, at lower
costs, of housing of sound standards of design, construction,
livability, and size for adequate family life; (4) governmental
assistance to eliminate substandard and other inadequate housing
through the clearance of slums and blighted areas, to facilitate
community development and redevelopment, and to provide adequate
housing for urban and rural nonfarm families with incomes so low
that they are not being decently housed in new or existing housing
shall be extended to those localities which estimate their own
needs and demonstrate that these needs are not being met through
reliance solely upon private enterprise, and without such aid; and
(5) governmental assistance for decent, safe, and sanitary farm
dwellings and related facilities shall be extended where the farm
owner demonstrates that he lacks sufficient resources to provide
such housing on his own account and is unable to secure necessary
credit for such housing from other sources on terms and conditions
which he could reasonably be expected to fulfill. The Department
of Housing and Urban Development, and any other departments or
agencies of the Federal Government having powers, functions, or
duties with respect to housing, shall exercise their powers,
functions, and duties under this or any other law, consistently
with the national housing policy declared by this Act and in such
manner as will facilitate sustained progress in attaining the
national housing objective hereby established, and in such manner
as will encourage and assist (1) the production of housing of sound
standards of design, construction, livability, and size for
adequate family life; (2) the reduction of the costs of housing
without sacrifice of such sound standards; (3) the use of new
designs, materials, techniques, and methods in residential
construction, the use of standardized dimensions and methods of
assembly of home-building materials and equipment, and the increase
of efficiency in residential construction and maintenance; (4) the
development of well-planned, integrated, residential neighborhoods
and the development and redevelopment of communities; and (5) the
stabilization of the housing industry at a high annual volume of
residential construction.

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(July 15, 1949, ch. 338, Sec. 2, 63 Stat. 413; May 25, 1967, Pub.
L. 90-19, Sec. 6(a), 81 Stat. 21.)

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REFERENCES IN TEXT
This Act, referred to in text, is act July 15, 1949, ch. 338, 63
Stat. 413, as amended, known as the Housing Act of 1949, which is
classified principally to this chapter (Sec. 1441 et seq.). For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title
note set out below and Tables.

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AMENDMENTS
1967 - Pub. L. 90-19 substituted ''The Department of Housing and
Urban Development'' for ''The Housing and Home Finance Agency and
its constituent agencies''.
SHORT TITLE OF 1983 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 98-181, title V, Sec. 501, Nov. 30, 1983, 97 Stat. 1240,
provided that: ''This title (enacting sections 1490k to 1490o of
this title, amending sections 1471, 1472, 1474, 1476, 1479 to 1481,
1483 to 1487, 1490, 1490a, 1490c, 1490e, 1490f, and 1490j of this
title, repealing sections 1482, 1490g, and 1490i of this title, and
enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 1472 and 1490a
of this title) may be cited as the 'Rural Housing Amendments of
1983'.''
SHORT TITLE
Section 1 of act July 15, 1949, provided: ''That this Act
(enacting this chapter, sections 1421a and 1433 of this title, and
sections 1701d-1, 1701f-1, 1701h, and 1701i of Title 12, Banks and
Banking, amending sections 1401, 1402, 1406, 1409 to 1411, 1413 to
1416, and 1422 to 1430 of this title and sections 1701e, 1701f,
1703, 1709, and 1738 of Title 12, and amending provisions set out
as a note under section 1701e of Title 12) may be cited as the
'Housing Act of 1949'.''
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON NEIGHBORHOODS
Pub. L. 95-24, title II, Sec. 201-208, Apr. 30, 1977, 91 Stat.
56-59, as amended by Pub. L. 95-557, title III, Sec. 315, Oct. 31,
1978, 92 Stat. 2099, known as the ''National Neighborhood Policy
Act'', established the National Commission on Neighborhoods, which
was to undertake a comprehensive study and investigation of the
factors contributing to the decline of city neighborhoods and of
the factors necessary to neighborhood survival and revitalization,
and to make recommendations for modifications in Federal, State,
and local laws, policies and programs necessary to facilitate
neighborhood preservation and revitalization. The Commission was
to submit to the Congress and the President a comprehensive report
on its study and investigation not later than fifteen months after
the date on which funds first became available to carry out the
Act, and was to cease to exist thirty days after the submission of
that report.
LIMITATION ON WITHHOLDING OR CONDITIONING OF ASSISTANCE
Assistance provided for in Housing and Community Development Act
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.
1701 et seq.), United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et
seq.), Housing Act of 1949 (see Short Title note set out above),
Demonstration Cities, and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (see
Short Title note set out under section 3301 of this title), and
Housing and Urban Development Acts of 1965, 1968, 1969, and 1970
not to be withheld or made subject to conditions by reason of
tax-exempt status of obligations issued or to be issued for
financing of assistance, except as otherwise provided by law, see
section 817 of Pub. L. 93-383, set out as a note under section 5301
of this title.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN HOUSING
Executive order relating to equal opportunity in housing, see Ex.
Ord. No. 11063, Nov. 20, 1962, 27 F.R. 11527, as amended, set out
as a note under section 1982 of this title.

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SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in section 1476 of this title; title
12 section 1701t.