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§12784 Research in Housing Affordability

Title 42 › Chapter 130— NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING › Subchapter II— INVESTMENT IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING › Part C— Other Support for State and Local Housing Strategies › § 12784

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may fund research and publish reports to help expand and preserve energy‑efficient, affordable housing. Research can study how federal, state, and local policies affect incentives to build and keep such housing, especially where affordability is severe. Federal agencies, mortgage finance corporations, and qualified research groups can get contracts.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §12784

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The Secretary is authorized to support, through contracts with eligible organizations and otherwise, such research and to publish such reports as will assist in the achievement of the purposes of this subchapter. Activities authorized by the previous sentence may include an ongoing analysis of the impact of public policies at the Federal, State, and local levels, both individually and in the aggregate, on the incentives to expand and maintain the supply of energy-efficient affordable housing in the United States, particularly in areas with severe problems of housing affordability, through the use of cost-saving innovative building technology and construction techniques. For purposes of this section, agencies of the United States, government-sponsored mortgage finance corporations, and qualified research organizations shall be included as eligible organizations in addition to eligible organizations specified under section 12783 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1992—Pub. L. 102–550 inserted before period at end of second sentence “, through the use of cost-saving innovative building technology and

Construction

techniques”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1992 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 102–550 applicable to unexpended funds allocated under subchapter II of this chapter in fiscal year 1992, except as otherwise specifically provided, see section 223 of Pub. L. 102–550, set out as a note under section 12704 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 12784

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60