42 USC Ch. 8A: Front Matter
From Title 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARECHAPTER 8A-SLUM CLEARANCE, URBAN RENEWAL, AND FARM HOUSING
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CHAPTER 8A-SLUM CLEARANCE, URBAN RENEWAL, AND FARM HOUSING
SUBCHAPTER I-GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec.
1441.
Congressional declaration of national housing policy.
1441a.
National housing goals.
(a)
Congressional findings and reaffirmation of goals.
(b)
Additional Congressional findings.
(c)
Congressional declaration of purposes.
1441b.
Plan for elimination of all substandard housing and realization of national housing goal; report by President to Congress.
1441c.
Annual report by President to Congress; contents.
1442.
Repealed.
1443.
Provisions as controlling over other laws.
1444.
Separability.
1445, 1446. Repealed or Transferred.
SUBCHAPTER II-SLUM CLEARANCE AND URBAN RENEWAL
Part A-Urban Renewal Projects, Demolition Programs, and Code Enforcement Programs
1450 to 1452b. Omitted or Repealed.
1452c.
Nullification of right of redemption of single family mortgagors under rehabilitation loan program.
(a)
In general.
(b)
Foreclosure by others.
(c)
Verification of title.
(d)
Definitions.
1453.
Omitted.
1453a.
Administrative priority for applications relating to activities in areas affected by base closings.
1454 to 1468a. Omitted or Repealed.
Part B-Neighborhood Development Programs
1469 to 1469c. Omitted.
SUBCHAPTER III-FARM HOUSING
1471.
Financial assistance by Secretary of Agriculture.
(a)
Authorization and purposes of assistance.
(b)
Definitions.
(c)
Conditions of eligibility.
(d)
Additional definitions.
(e)
Prepayment of taxes, insurance, and other expenses; advances to account of borrower: interest, time for repayment.
(f)
Increase in loan limits.
(g)
Avoidance of involuntary displacement of families and businesses.
(h)
Eligibility of resident aliens.
(i)
Loan packaging by nonprofit organizations as a "development cost".
(j)
Program transfers.
1472.
Loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms.
(a)
Terms of loan.
(b)
Provisions of loan instrument.
(c)
Prepayment and refinancing provisions.
(d)
Dwelling units available to very low-income families or persons.
(e)
Manufactured homes; qualifications for loans made or insured; energy conservation requirements.
(f)
Remote rural areas.
(g)
Deferred mortgage demonstration.
(h)
Guaranteed loans.
1473.
Loans for housing and buildings on potentially adequate farms; conditions and terms.
1474.
Loans and grants for repairs or improvements of rural dwellings.
(a)
Prerequisites; purposes; amounts; terms.
(b)
Additional purposes.
(c)
Weatherization program; development, etc.
1474a.
Security for direct or insured rural housing loans to farmer applicants.
1475.
Loan payment moratorium and foreclosure procedures.
(a)
Moratorium.
(b)
Foreclosure procedures.
1476.
Buildings and repairs.
(a)
Construction in accordance with plans and specifications; supervision and inspection; technical services and research.
(b)
Research and technical studies for reduction of costs and adaptation and development of fixtures and appurtenances.
(c)
Research, study, and analysis of farm housing.
(d)
Research capacity within Farmers Home Administration; establishment; authority.
(e)
Preparation and submission of estimates of housing needs.
(f)
Study of housing available for migrant and settled farmworkers.
1477.
Preferences for veterans and families of deceased servicemen.
1478.
Local committees to assist Secretary.
(a)
Composition, appointment, and compensation; chairman; promulgation of procedural rules; forms and equipment.
(b)
Duties.
1479.
General powers of Secretary.
(a)
Standards of adequate farm housing and other buildings; criteria.
(b)
Terms or conditions of leases or occupancy agreements subject to change with approval of Secretary.
(c)
Rural Housing Insurance Fund for payment of expenditures respecting construction defects; judicial review prohibition.
(d)
Defaults involving security interest in tribal lands.
(e)
Terms and conditions; regulations.
(f)
Housing in underserved areas.
1480.
Administrative powers of Secretary.
(a)
Service and supply contracts.
(b)
Subordination, subrogation, and other agreements.
(c)
Compromise of claims and obligations.
(d)
Collection of claims and obligations.
(e)
Purchase of pledged or mortgaged property at foreclosure or other sales; operation, sale or disposition of said property.
(f)
Processing of applications received prior to determination of nonrural status; assistance.
(g)
Rules and regulations for written notice of denial or reduction of assistance.
(h)
Assistance in connection with transfers and assumptions of property for nonrural areas.
(i)
Utilization of indebtedness.
(j)
Fee inspectors and appraisers.
(k)
Rules and regulations.
1481.
Issuance of notes and obligations for loan funds; amount; limitation; security; form and denomination; interest; purchase and sale by Treasury; public debt transaction.
1482.
Repealed.
1483.
Program levels and authorizations.
(a)
In general.
(b)
Authorization of appropriations.
(c)
Rental assistance.
(d)
Supplemental rental assistance contracts.
(e)
Authorization of appropriations.
1484.
Insurance of loans for housing and related facilities for domestic farm labor.
(a)
Authorization; terms and conditions.
(b)
Utilization of farm tenant mortgage insurance fund; additions to and deposits in fund; deposits in Treasury.
(c)
Insurance contract; obligation of United States; incontestability.
(d)
Repealed.
(e)
Administrative expenses.
(f)
Definitions.
(g)
Waiver of interest rate limitations.
(h)
Determination of need for assistance.
(i)
Domestic farm labor housing available for other families.
(j)
Equity skimming penalty.
1485.
Housing and related facilities for elderly persons and families or other persons and families of low income.
(a)
Direct loans; authorization; terms and conditions; revolving fund; appropriation.
(b)
Insurance of loans; authorization; terms and conditions; utilization of Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund.
(c)
Equity recapture loans and loans to nonprofit organizations and public agencies.
(d)
Construction requirements; detached units for cooperative housing.
(e)
Definitions.
(f)
Administrative expenses.
(g)
Loans for financing transfers of memberships in cooperatives.
(h)
Project transfers.
(i)
Limitations on cost increases after approval for project involving newly constructed or substantially rehabilitated units; applicable factors.
(j)
Contract preferences for providing units in newly constructed projects.
(k)
Management fees.
(l)
Determination of market feasibility of project.
(m)
Standards for housing and related facilities rehabilitated or repaired; establishment, criteria, etc.
(n)
Assistance to projects located on more than one site.
(o)
Rental assistance payments as affecting assistance to projects or occupancy by eligible persons.
(p)
Occupancy by low income persons and families other than very low-income persons and families.
(q)
Determination of income of person or family occupying financed housing.
(r)
Operating reserve and equity contribution requirements; regulations to implement adjustment by negotiated rulemaking procedure.
(s)
Limitation of fees on loans.
(t)
Equity takeout loans.
(u)
Reuse of loan authority.
(v)
Assumption of loans.
(w)
Set-aside of rural rental housing funds.
(x)
Uniform project costs; coordination of housing resources and tax benefits.
(y)
Service coordinators.
(z)
Equity skimming penalty.
1486.
Financial assistance to provide low-rent housing for domestic farm labor.
(a)
Application; considerations.
(b)
Maximum amount of assistance.
(c)
Prerequisite agreements; rentals; safety and sanitation standards; priority of domestic farm labor.
(d)
Payments; contracts to specify uses of housing.
(e)
Regulations for prevention of waste.
(f)
Wages; labor standards; waiver; authority and functions of Secretary.
(g)
Definitions.
(h)
Migrant farmworker housing.
(i)
Farm labor housing.
(j)
Domestic farm labor housing available for other families.
(k)
Housing for rural homeless and migrant farmworkers.
1487.
Rural Housing Insurance Fund.
(a)
Authority to make and insure loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms; amounts.
(b)
Authority to make and insure loans for housing and related facilities for domestic farm labor and elderly persons; transfer of notes, contracts, and mortgages from Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund; compensation.
(c)
Use of funds from Rural Housing Insurance Fund for loans; sale of insured and guaranteed loans to public.
(d)
Authority to insure payment of interest and principal; liens; assignability of notes evidencing loans; interest subsidy on insured and guaranteed loans offered for sale to public; protection of borrowers under loans sold to public.
(e)
Rural Housing Insurance Fund; creation; authorization of appropriations; separate operation of guaranteed and insured loan programs: transfer of funds.
(f)
Investment of excess Fund moneys.
(g)
Fund assets and liabilities; sale of loans; agreements for servicing and purchasing loans.
(h)
Issuance of notes; form and denominations; interest rate; purchase by Secretary of the Treasury; debt transactions.
(i)
Retention of annual charge; administrative expenses; merger of funds.
(j)
Additional uses of Fund moneys.
(k)
Sale of loans as sale of assets.
(l)
Commitments to make or insure loans to lenders, builders, or sellers; terms and conditions.
(m)
Transfer of assets, liabilities, and authorizations of Rural Housing Direct Loan Account to Fund; abolition of Account; applicability of provisions.
(n)
Purchase of eligible residential properties.
(o)
Rules to encourage rehabilitation or purchase of existing buildings; regulations to facilitate marketability of insured or guaranteed loans in secondary mortgage market.
1488.
Repealed.
1489.
Transfer of excess funds out of Rural Housing Insurance Fund.
1490.
"Rural" and "rural area" defined.
1490a.
Loans to provide occupant owned, rental, and cooperative housing for low and moderate income, elderly or handicapped persons or families.
(a)
Interest rates; credits; determination of eligibility; recoupment; multi-family housing projects; assistance payments to owners; amount limitations; recordkeeping and payment requirements for owners; shared housing for elderly and handicapped; rental assistance tenant contribution.
(b)
Location in rural areas; inclusion of qualified nonrural residents who will become rural residents.
(c)
Reimbursement of Rural Housing Insurance Fund.
(d)
Rental assistance contract authority; preconditions, limitations, etc.
(e)
Increases in rent or contribution of any recipient.
1490b.
Housing for rural trainees.
(a)
Authorization; financial and technical assistance; selection of training sites and location of housing.
(b)
Quality of housing and related facilities; design and location.
(c)
Contribution of land by applicant.
(d)
Conditions precedent to grant of financial assistance.
(e)
Advances; repayment; limitation on amount.
(f)
Sale of housing and related facilities to ineligible transferee or diversion to use other than primary purpose; repayment of advances; return of property to original condition.
(g)
Interest on advances.
(h)
Regulations.
(i)
"Related facilities" and "trainee" defined.
(j)
Authorization of appropriations.
1490c.
Mutual and self-help housing.
(a)
Purpose.
(b)
Contract authority; establishment of Self-Help Housing Land Development Fund; authorization to make loans; conditions of loan.
(c)
Considerations for financial assistance.
(d)
"Construction" defined.
(e)
Establishment of appropriate criteria and procedures for determining eligibility of applicants.
(f)
Repealed.
(g)
Deposit in Self-Help Fund; availability of amounts; assets.
(h)
Rules and regulations.
1490d.
Loans to nonprofit organizations to provide building sites for eligible families, nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and cooperatives; interest rates; factors determinative in making loan.
1490e.
Programs of technical and supervisory assistance for low-income individuals and families in rural areas.
(a)
Grants or contracts with public or private nonprofit corporations, etc., for assistance; preferential treatment of applications sponsored by governmental entity or public body.
(b)
Loans to public or private nonprofit corporations, etc., for necessary planning and financing expenses; interest rates; factors determinative of amount; terms and conditions of repayment.
(c)
Repealed.
(d)
Deposit of appropriated funds into low-income sponsor fund; availability; administration of fund as revolving fund; deposit of repayments.
1490f.
Loans and insurance of loans for condominium housing in rural areas.
(a)
Individual loans and insurance of loans to low or moderate income persons or families for purchase of units; terms and conditions.
(b)
Scope of individual loans and insurance of loans; condominium requirements.
(c)
Blanket loans and insurance of loans; terms and conditions; certification by borrower of future ownership of multifamily project; maximum amount of principal obligation.
(d)
"Condominium" defined.
1490g.
Repealed.
1490h.
Taxation of property held by Secretary.
1490i.
Repealed.
1490j.
Conditions on rent increases in projects receiving assistance under other provisions of law.
1490k.
FHA insurance.
1490l.
Processing of applications.
(a)
Priority.
(b)
Preliminary reservation of assistance at time of initial approval of project.
(c)
Prioritization of section 1485 housing assistance.
1490m.
Housing preservation grants.
(a)
Statement of purposes.
(b)
Mandatory program requirements.
(c)
Allocation formula; transfer of funds; maximum amounts.
(d)
Statement of activity by grantee; submission; contents; availability; consultations; evaluation by Secretary; criteria applicable; maximum amounts.
(e)
Limitations on assistance; failure to implement required agreement.
(f)
Advance payments of assistance.
(g)
Annual review and audit by Secretary of activities; adjustment, etc., of resources; reallocation of amounts.
(h)
Rules and regulations; delegation of authority.
(i)
National historic preservation objectives affected by rehabilitation activities; establishment of procedures for determining consonant purposes and measures.
1490n.
Review of rules and regulations.
(a)
Publication for public comment in Federal Register.
(b)
Transmittal to Congressional committee members prior to publication in Federal Register.
(c)
Rules and regulations issued on emergency basis.
(d)
Regulatory authority.
1490o.
Reciprocity in approval of housing subdivisions among Federal agencies.
(a)
Administrative approval of housing subdivisions.
(b)
Certificates of reasonable value for one or more properties as constituting administrative approval of subdivision.
(c)
Report to Congress.
(d)
Approval by local, county, or State agencies.
1490p.
Accountability.
(a)
Notice regarding assistance.
(b)
Disclosures by applicants.
(c)
Updating of disclosure.
(d)
Repealed.
(e)
Remedies and penalties.
(f)
Limitation of assistance.
(g)
Regulations.
(h)
"Assistance" defined.
(i)
Report by Secretary.
1490p–1.
Office of Rural Housing Preservation.
(a)
Establishment.
(b)
Purposes.
1490p–2.
Loan guarantees for multifamily rental housing in rural areas.
(a)
Authority.
(b)
Extent of guarantee.
(c)
Eligible borrowers.
(d)
Eligible housing.
(e)
Eligible lenders.
(f)
Loan terms.
(g)
Guarantee fee.
(h)
Authority for lenders to issue certificates of guarantee.
(i)
Payment under guarantee.
(j)
Violation of guarantee requirements by lenders issuing guarantees.
(k)
Refinancing.
(l)
Nonassumption.
(m)
Geographical targeting.
(n)
Inapplicability of credit-elsewhere test.
(o)
Tenant protections.
(p)
Housing standards.
(q)
Limitation on commitments to guarantee loans.
(r)
Report.
(s)
Definitions.
(t)
Authorization of appropriations.
(u)
Tax-exempt financing.
1490q.
Disaster assistance.
(a)
Authority.
(b)
Use.
(c)
Eligibility.
(d)
Waiver of rural area requirements.
(e)
Rural Housing Insurance Fund.
1490r.
Rural housing voucher program.
(a)
In general.
(b)
Coordination and limitation.
Chapter Referred to in Other Sections
This chapter is referred to in sections 1434, 1441a, 9817, 12721, of this title; title 7 sections 1981, 2204f; title 12 section 1715z–13a; title 20 section 80g; title 48 sections 1408, 1408c.