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[CITE: 42USC12702]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 130--NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS AND POLICIES
 
Sec. 12702. Objective of national housing policy

    The objective of national housing policy shall be to reaffirm the 
long-established national commitment to decent, safe, and sanitary 
housing for every American by strengthening a nationwide partnership of 
public and private institutions able--
        (1) to ensure that every resident of the United States has 
    access to decent shelter or assistance in avoiding homelessness;
        (2) to increase the Nation's supply of decent housing that is 
    affordable to low-income and moderate-income families and accessible 
    to job opportunities;
        (3) to improve housing opportunities for all residents of the 
    United States, particularly members of disadvantaged minorities, on 
    a nondiscriminatory basis;
        (4) to help make neighborhoods safe and livable;
        (5) to expand opportunities for homeownership;
        (6) to provide every American community with a reliable, readily 
    available supply of mortgage finance at the lowest possible interest 
    rates; and
        (7) to encourage tenant empowerment and reduce generational 
    poverty in federally assisted and public housing by improving the 
    means by which self-sufficiency may be achieved.

(Pub. L. 101-625, title I, Sec. 102, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4085.)
