42 U.S.C. § 3531 : US Code - Section 3531: Congressional declaration of purpose

Search 42 U.S.C. § 3531 : US Code - Section 3531: Congressional declaration of purpose

The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and
security of the Nation and the health and living standards of our
people require, as a matter of national purpose, sound development
of the Nation's communities and metropolitan areas in which the
vast majority of its people live and work.
To carry out such purpose, and in recognition of the increasing
importance of housing and urban development in our national life,
the Congress finds that establishment of an executive department is
desirable to achieve the best administration of the principal
programs of the Federal Government which provide assistance for
housing and for the development of the Nation's communities; to
assist the President in achieving maximum coordination of the
various Federal activities which have a major effect upon urban
community, suburban, or metropolitan development; to encourage the
solution of problems of housing, urban development, and mass
transportation through State, county, town, village, or other local
and private action, including promotion of interstate, regional,
and metropolitan cooperation; to encourage the maximum
contributions that may be made by vigorous private homebuilding and
mortgage lending industries to housing, urban development, and the
national economy; and to provide for full and appropriate
consideration, at the national level, of the needs and interests of
the Nation's communities and of the people who live and work in
them.