Housing and Community Development Act of 1974

Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
Other short titles	Housing Cooperation Association Financing Act; National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act; Revised National Housing Act;
Long title	An 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.
Nicknames	Community Development Assistance Act of 1974
Enacted by	the 93rd United States Congress
Effective	August 22, 1974
Citations
Public law	93-383
Statutes at Large	88 Stat. 633-2
Codification
Titles amended	42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare
U.S.C. sections created	42 U.S.C. ch. 69 § 5301
Legislative 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]

References

^ 88 Stat. 662
^ National Institute of Building Sciences
^ Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "Gerald R. Ford: "Remarks on Signing the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.," August 22, 1974". The American Presidency Project. University of California - Santa Barbara.
^ Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "Gerald R. Ford: "Statement on the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.," August 22, 1974". The American Presidency Project. University of California - Santa Barbara.

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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[1] 88 Stat. 662

[NIBS-2] National Institute of Building Sciences

[3] Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "Gerald R. Ford: "Remarks on Signing the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.," August 22, 1974". The American Presidency Project. University of California - Santa Barbara.

[4] Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. "Gerald R. Ford: "Statement on the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.," August 22, 1974". The American Presidency Project. University of California - Santa Barbara.

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