Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 8A — Slum Clearance, Urban Renewal, and Farm Housing
§ 1441a. National housing goals
Statutory text
Congressional findings and reaffirmation of goals
The Congress finds that the supply of the Nation’s housing is not increasing rapidly enough to meet the national housing goal, established in the Housing Act of 1949 [42 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.], of the “realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family”. The Congress reaffirms this national housing goal and determines that it can be substantially achieved within the next decade by the construction or rehabilitation of twenty-six million housing units, six million of these for low and moderate income families.
Additional Congressional findings
The Congress further finds that policies designed to contribute to the achievement of the national housing goal have not directed sufficient attention and resources to the preservation of existing housing and neighborhoods, that the deterioration and abandonment of housing for the Nation’s lower income families has accelerated over the last decade, and that this acceleration has contributed to neighborhood disintegration and has partially negated the progress toward achieving the national housing goal which has been made primarily through new housing construction.
Congressional declaration of purposes
The Congress declares that if the national housing goal is to be achieved, a greater effort must be made to encourage the preservation of existing housing and neighborhoods through such measures as housing preservation, moderate rehabilitation, and improvements in housing management and maintenance, in conjunction with the provision of adequate municipal services. Such an effort should concentrate, to a greater extent than it has in the past, on housing and neighborhoods where deterioration is evident but has not yet become acute.
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.
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
Pub. L. 90–448 title XVI § 1601 · 82 Stat. 476
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1441a
Pub. L. 90–448, title XVI, § 1601, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 601
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–448, title XVI, § 1601, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 601Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1601. reaffirmation of goal The Congress finds that the supply of the Nation’s housing is not increasing rapidly enough to meet the national housing goal, established in the Housing Act of 1949, of the “realization as soon 63 stat. 413. 42 USC 1441 note. as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family”. The Congress reaffirms this national housing goal and determines that it can be substantially achieved within the next decade by the construction or rehabilitation of twenty-six million housing units, six million of these for low and moderate income families.Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
Pub. L. 93–383 title VIII § 801(1) · 88 Stat. 634
Amended · 42 U.S.C. § 1441a
Pub. L. 93–383 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
Added · 42 U.S.C. § 1441a
Pub. L. 93–383 added subsecs. (b) and (c)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 93–383 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsecs. (b) and (c).Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) by inserting “(a)” before “The Congress” in the first sentence of section 1601; 42 USC 1441a.
3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Housing Act of 1949, referred to in subsec. (a), is act July 15, 1949, ch. 338, 63 Stat. 413, which is classified principally to this chapter (§ 1441 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1441 of this title and Tables.
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Housing Act of 1949 which comprises this chapter.
Amendments
1974—Pub. L. 93–383 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsecs. (b) and (c).
Credits
1968–1974 · 2 acts
- 1968Pub. L. 90–448, title XVI, § 1601, , 82 Stat. 601
- 1974Pub. L. 93–383, title VIII, § 801(1), (2), , 88 Stat. 721.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 90–448, title XVI, § 1601, , 82 Stat. 601; Pub. L. 93–383, title VIII, § 801(1), (2), , 88 Stat. 721.)