42 U.S.C. § 12705d : US Code - Section 12705D: Regulatory barriers clearinghouse

Search 42 U.S.C. § 12705d : US Code - Section 12705D: Regulatory barriers clearinghouse

(a) Establishment
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall establish a
clearinghouse to serve as a national repository to receive,
collect, process, assemble, and disseminate information regarding -

(1) State and local laws, regulations, and policies affecting
the development, maintenance, improvement, availability, or cost
of affordable housing (including tax policies affecting land and
other property, land use controls, zoning ordinances, building
codes, fees and charges, growth limits, and policies that affect
the return on investment in residential property), and the
prevalence and effects on affordable housing of such laws,
regulations, and policies;
(2) State and local activities, strategies, and plans to remove
or ameliorate the negative effects, if any, of such laws,
regulations, and policies, including particularly innovative or
successful activities, strategies, and plans; and
(3) State and local strategies, activities and plans that
promote affordable housing and housing desegregation, including
particularly innovative or successful strategies, activities, and
plans.
(b) Functions
The clearinghouse established under subsection (a) of this
section shall -
(1) respond to inquiries from State and local governments,
other organizations, and individuals requesting information
regarding State and local laws, regulations, policies,
activities, strategies, and plans described in subsection (a) of
this section;
(2) provide assistance in identifying, examining, and
understanding such laws, regulations, policies, activities,
strategies, and plans; and
(3) by making available through a World Wide Web site of the
Department, by electronic mail, or otherwise, provide to each
housing agency of a unit of general local government that serves
an area having a population greater than 100,000, an index of all
State and local strategies and plans submitted under subsection
(a) of this section to the clearinghouse, which -
(A) shall describe the types of barriers to affordable
housing that the strategy or plan was designed to ameliorate or
remove; and
(B) shall, not later than 30 days after submission to the
clearinghouse of any new strategy or plan, be updated to
include the new strategy or plan submitted.
(c) Organization
The clearinghouse under this section shall be established within
the Office of Policy Development of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development and shall be under the direction of the Assistant
Secretary for Policy Development and Research.
(d) Timing
The clearinghouse under this section (as amended by section 103
of the Housing Affordability Barrier Removal Act of 2000) shall be
established and commence carrying out the functions of the
clearinghouse under this section not later than 1 year after
December 27, 2000. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
may comply with the requirements under this section by
reestablishing the clearinghouse that was originally established to
comply with this section and updating and improving such
clearinghouse to the extent necessary to comply with the
requirements of this section as in effect pursuant to the enactment
of such Act.