Housing and Community Development Act of 1974

Act of Congress
  • Housing Cooperation Association Financing Act
  • National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act
  • Revised National Housing Act
Long titleAn Act to establish a program of community development block grants, to amend and extend laws relating to housing and urban development, and for other purposes.NicknamesCommunity Development Assistance Act of 1974Enacted bythe 93rd United States CongressEffectiveAugust 22, 1974CitationsPublic law93-383Statutes at Large88 Stat. 633-2CodificationActs amendedHousing Act of 1937
Civil Rights Act of 1968Titles amended42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social WelfareU.S.C. sections created42 U.S.C. ch. 69 § 5301Legislative history
  • Introduced in the Senate as S. 3066 by John Sparkman (D–AL) on February 27, 1974
  • Committee consideration by Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, House Banking and Currency
  • Passed the Senate on March 11, 1974 (76-11)
  • Passed the House on June 20, 1974 (351-25, in lieu of H.R. 15361)
  • Reported by the joint conference committee on August 12, 1974; agreed to by the Senate on August 13, 1974 (84-0) and by the House on August 15, 1974 (377-21)
  • Signed into law by President Gerald R. Ford on August 22, 1974

The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 1706e) is a United States federal law that, among other provisions, amended the Housing Act of 1937 to create Section 8 housing,[1] authorizes "Entitlement Communities Grants" to be awarded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and created the National Institute of Building Sciences.[2] Under Section 810 of the Act the first federal Urban Homesteading program was created.

The S. 3066 legislation was passed by the United States 93rd Congressional session and enacted into law by the 38th President of the United States Gerald Ford on August 22, 1974.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ 88 Stat. 662
  2. ^ "National Institute of Building Sciences". Archived from the original on 2012-08-06. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
  3. ^ Ford, Gerald R. (August 22, 1974). "Remarks on Signing the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 - August 22, 1974". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 42–43.
  4. ^ Ford, Gerald R. (August 22, 1974). "Statement on the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 - August 22, 1974". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 43–45.

External links

  • Entitlement Communities Grants information, from hud.gov
  • 24 C.F.R. PART 590—URBAN HOMESTEADING
  • "Housing: Improvements Needed in the Mobile Home Park Mortgage Insurance Program" (PDF). U.S. GAO ~ RED-75-383. U.S. Government Accountability Office. July 2, 1975. OCLC 3035483.
  • "Computation of Claim of Government-Insured Lender When Value of Collateral Cannot Be Determined as Required by Regulation" (PDF). U.S. GAO ~ B-183516. U.S. Government Accountability Office. August 12, 1975.
  • "Lender's Claim on Government-Insured Mobile Home Loan in Default" (PDF). U.S. GAO ~ B-184016. U.S. Government Accountability Office. September 16, 1975.
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