20 U.S.C. § 801 : US Code - Section 801: Congressional findings and purpose

Search 20 U.S.C. § 801 : US Code - Section 801: Congressional findings and purpose

(a) Need for training and research related to community development
The Congress finds that the rapid expansion of the Nation's urban
areas and urban population has caused severe problems in urban and
suburban development and created a national need to (1) provide
special training in skills needed for economic and efficient
community development, and (2) support research in new or improved
methods of dealing with community development problems.
(b) Fellowships for specialists and personnel in urban affairs;
grants to institutions of higher education; assistance to States
and localities
It is the purpose of this chapter to provide fellowships for the
graduate training of professional city and regional planning,
management, and housing specialists, and professionally trained
personnel with a general capacity in urban affairs and problems: to
make grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education
(or combinations of such institutions) to assist them in planning,
developing, strengthening, improving, or carrying out programs or
projects for the preparation of graduate or professional students
to enter the public service; and to assist and encourage the States
and localities, in cooperation with public and private universities
and colleges and urban centers and with business firms and
associations, labor unions, and other interested associations and
organizations, to (1) organize, initiate, develop, and expand
programs which will provide special training in skills needed for
economic and efficient community development to those technical,
professional, and other persons with the capacity to master and
employ such skills who are, or are training to be, employed by a
governmental or public body which has responsibility for community
development, or by a private nonprofit organization which is
conducting or has responsibility for housing and community
development programs, and (2) support State and local research that
is needed in connection with housing programs and needs, public
improvement programing, code problems, efficient land use, urban
transportation, and similar community development problems.