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[CITE: 42USC1441a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER 8A--SLUM CLEARANCE, URBAN RENEWAL, AND FARM HOUSING
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1441a. National housing goals


(a) Congressional findings and reaffirmation of goals

    The Congress finds that the supply of the Nation's housing is not 
increasing rapidly enough to meet the national housing goal, established 
in the Housing Act of 1949 [42 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.], of the 
``realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a 
suitable living environment for every American family''. The Congress 
reaffirms this national housing goal and determines that it can be 
substantially achieved within the next decade by the construction or 
rehabilitation of twenty-six million housing units, six million of these 
for low and moderate income families.

(b) Additional Congressional findings

    The Congress further finds that policies designed to contribute to 
the achievement of the national housing goal have not directed 
sufficient attention and resources to the preservation of existing 
housing and neighborhoods, that the deterioration and abandonment of 
housing for the Nation's lower income families has accelerated over the 
last decade, and that this acceleration has contributed to neighborhood 
disintegration and has partially negated the progress toward achieving 
the national housing goal which has been made primarily through new 
housing construction.

(c) Congressional declaration of purposes

    The Congress declares that if the national housing goal is to be 
achieved, a greater effort must be made to encourage the preservation of 
existing housing and neighborhoods through such measures as housing 
preservation, moderate rehabilitation, and improvements in housing 
management and maintenance, in conjunction with the provision of 
adequate municipal services. Such an effort should concentrate, to a 
greater extent than it has in the past, on housing and neighborhoods 
where deterioration is evident but has not yet become acute.

(Pub. L. 90-448, title XVI, Sec. 1601, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 601; Pub. 
L. 93-383, title VIII, Sec. 801(1), (2), Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 721.)

                       References in Text

    The Housing Act of 1949, referred to in subsec. (a), is act July 15, 
1949, ch. 338, 63 Stat. 413, as amended, which is classified principally 
to this chapter (Sec. 1441 et seq.). For complete classification of this 
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1441 of this 
title and Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Housing Act of 1949 which 
comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1974--Pub. L. 93-383 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1441b of this title.
