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Title 20, EducationRelease 119-110

§801 Congressional Findings and Purpose

Title 20 › CHAPTER 23 — TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › § 801

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Provides fellowships and grants to train graduate students as city and regional planners, managers, housing specialists, and other urban affairs professionals. Pays colleges to plan and run programs that prepare students for public service. Helps states and local governments, working with colleges, urban centers, businesses, unions, and nonprofits, to create and expand training programs for people who work in government or nonprofit community development. It also supports state and local research on housing, public improvements, building codes, land use, transportation, and similar community development problems because rapid urban growth has created serious challenges.

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Title 20, §801

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(a)Need for training and research related to community development
The Congress finds that the rapid expansion of the Nation’s urban areas and urban population has caused severe problems in urban and suburban development and created a national need to (1) provide special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community development, and (2) support research in new or improved methods of dealing with community development problems.
(b)Fellowships for specialists and personnel in urban affairs; grants to institutions of higher education; assistance to States and localities
It is the purpose of this chapter to provide fellowships for the graduate training of professional city and regional planning, management, and housing specialists, and professionally trained personnel with a general capacity in urban affairs and problems: to make grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education (or combinations of such institutions) to assist them in planning, developing, strengthening, improving, or carrying out programs or projects for the preparation of graduate or professional students to enter the public service; and to assist and encourage the States and localities, in cooperation with public and private universities and colleges and urban centers and with business firms and associations, labor unions, and other interested associations and organizations, to (1) organize, initiate, develop, and expand programs which will provide special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community development to those technical, professional, and other persons with the capacity to master and employ such skills who are, or are training to be, employed by a governmental or public body which has responsibility for community development, or by a private nonprofit organization which is conducting or has responsibility for housing and community development programs, and (2) support State and local research that is needed in connection with housing programs and needs, public improvement programing, code problems, efficient land use, urban transportation, and similar community development problems.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Pub. L. 93–383, § 402, provided for

Amendments

to title VIII of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1964. The

Amendments

of the enumerated sections of such title VIII have been executed to comparable sections of title VIII of the Housing Act of 1964 as the probable intent of Congress.

Amendments

1974—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93–383 expanded purposes of chapter to include graduate training in regional planning and for training of personnel with a general capacity in urban affairs and problems and authorizing grants and contracts with institutions of higher education for training of graduate or professional students. 1969—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91–152 inserted a comma before “and (2)”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91–152 inserted provision that it is the purpose of this chapter to grant fellowships for the graduate training of professional city planning and urban and housing technicians and specialists. 1968—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90–448 provided for cooperation with business firms and associations, labor unions, and other interested associations or organizations, included employment by a private nonprofit organization which is conducting or has responsibility for housing and community development programs, and substituted “technical, professional, and other persons with the capacity to master and employ such skills” for “technical and professional people.”

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 801

Title 20, Education

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110