Notes on slum clearance, urban renewal, and farm housing : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on slum clearance, urban renewal, and farm housing : US Code - Notes

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. Omitted.
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 Repealed.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 Repealed or Transferred.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 Omitted or Repealed.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 Omitted or Repealed.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) Doug Bereuter section 502 single family housing
loan guarantee program.
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.
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) Accounting and recordkeeping requirements.
(aa) Double damages for unauthorized use of housing
projects assets and income.
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; additional assistance; payments
to owners; rent limitations.
(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) Geographical targeting.
(m) Inapplicability of credit-elsewhere test.
(n) Tenant protections.
(o) Housing standards.
(p) Limitation on commitments to guarantee loans.
(q) Report.
(r) Definitions.
(s) Authorization of appropriations.
(t) Tax-exempt financing.
(u) Fee authority.
(v) Defaults of loans secured by reservation lands.
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.
1490s. Enforcement provisions.
(a) Equity skimming.
(b) Civil monetary penalties.
1490t. Indian tribes.