Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§12702 Objective of national housing policy

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 130— - NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS AND POLICIES › § 12702

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Renew the country's promise to provide decent, safe housing for every American by strengthening public‑private partnerships. Goals are to ensure shelter or help avoiding homelessness; add affordable housing near jobs for low‑ and moderate‑income families; ensure fair access for disadvantaged minorities; make neighborhoods safe; expand homeownership; provide low‑cost mortgages; and help tenants in federally assisted and public housing become self‑sufficient.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §12702

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

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.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 12702

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73