Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 130 — National Affordable Housing
§ 12702. Objective of national housing policy
Statutory text
The objective of national housing policy shall be to reaffirm the long-established national commitment to decent, safe, and sanitary housing for every American by strengthening a nationwide partnership of public and private institutions able—
to ensure that every resident of the United States has access to decent shelter or assistance in avoiding homelessness;
to increase the Nation’s supply of decent housing that is affordable to low-income and moderate-income families and accessible to job opportunities;
to improve housing opportunities for all residents of the United States, particularly members of disadvantaged minorities, on a nondiscriminatory basis;
to help make neighborhoods safe and livable;
to expand opportunities for homeownership;
to provide every American community with a reliable, readily available supply of mortgage finance at the lowest possible interest rates; and
to encourage tenant empowerment and reduce generational poverty in federally assisted and public housing by improving the means by which self-sufficiency may be achieved.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act
Pub. L. 101–625 title I § 102 · 104 Stat. 4079
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 12702
(Pub. L. 101–625, title I, § 102, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4085.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 101–625, title I, § 102, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4085.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 102. OBJECTIVE OF NATIONAL HOUSING POLICY. The objective of national housing policy shall be to reaffirm the long-established national commitment to decent, safe, and sanitary housing for every American by strengthening a nationwide partnership of public and private institutions able— (1) to ensure that every resident of the United States has access to decent shelter or assistance in avoiding homelessness; (2) to increase the Nation’s supply of decent housing that is affordable to low-income and moderate-income families and accessible to job opportunities; (3) to improve housing opportunities for all residents of the United States, particularly members of disadvantaged minorities, on a nondiscriminatory basis; (4) to help make neighborhoods safe and livable; (5) to expand opportunities for homeownership; (6) to provide every American community with a reliable, readily available supply of mortgage finance at the lowest possible interest rates; and (7) to encourage tenant empowerment and reduce generational poverty in federally assisted and public housing by improving the means by which self-sufficiency may be achieved.
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