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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part A · Chapter 130 — National Affordable Housing

§ 12752. Distribution of assistance

Statutory text

(a)

Local

Each participating jurisdiction shall, insofar as is feasible, distribute assistance under this part geographically within its boundaries and among different categories of housing need, according to the priorities of housing need identified in the jurisdiction’s approved housing strategy.

(b)

State

Participating States shall be responsible for distributing assistance throughout the State according to the State’s assessment of the geographical distribution of the housing need within the State, as identified in the State’s approved housing strategy. Participating States shall distribute assistance to rural areas in amounts that take into account the nonmetropolitan share of the State’s total population and objective measures of rural housing need, such as poverty and substandard housing, as set forth in the State’s housing strategy approved under section 12705 of this title. To the extent the need is within the boundaries of a participating unit of general local government, the State and the unit of general local government shall coordinate activities to address that need.

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.

  1. HOME Investment Partnerships Act

    Pub. L. 101–625 title II § 222 · 104 Stat. 4079

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 12752

    (Pub. L. 101–625, title II, § 222, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4112.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 101–625, title II, § 222, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4112.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 222. DISTRIBUTION OF ASSISTANCE. (a) Local.— Each participating jurisdiction shall, insofar as is feasible, distribute assistance under this subtitle geographically within its boundaries and among different categories of housing need, according to the priorities of housing need identified in the jurisdiction’s approved housing strategy. (b) State.— Participating States shall be responsible for distributing assistance throughout the State according to the State’s assessment of the geographical distribution of the housing need within the Rural areas. State, as identified in the State’s approved housing strategy. Participating States shall distribute assistance to rural areas in amounts that take into account the nonmetropolitan share of the State’s total population and objective measures of rural housing need, such as poverty and substandard housing, as set forth in the State’s housing strategy approved under section 105 of this Act. To the extent the need is within the boundaries of a participating unit of general local government, the State and the unit of general local government shall coordinate activities to address that need.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 101–625, title II, § 222, , 104 Stat. 4112.)

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