Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§12702 Objective of National Housing Policy

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

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The law says the country must keep its long-standing promise to provide safe, decent housing for everyone by building stronger teamwork between government and private groups. It sets seven goals: make sure people have shelter or help to avoid homelessness; create more affordable housing near jobs; improve fair housing for disadvantaged minority groups; make neighborhoods safer; expand homeownership; offer low-cost mortgages; and help tenants 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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102