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§1591c Expiration Date; Exception

Title 42 › CHAPTER 9 — HOUSING OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN NATIONAL DEFENSE › SUBCHAPTER VIII — CRITICAL DEFENSE HOUSING AREAS › § 1591c

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

After June 30, 1953, no new permanent housing projects under subchapter IX can be started. After July 31, 1954, no new mortgages can be insured under Title IX, and no new agreements to keep paying for community facilities or services or to start U.S. construction of temporary housing or community facilities under subchapter IX can be made — except for commitments already issued by those dates, for projects the President allows between July 31, 1954 and August 1, 1955, or commitments tied to those Presidential exceptions. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, after July 31, 1954, amend earlier agreements to spend remaining federal funds available on or before that date to finish facilities. Loans or purchases under 12 U.S.C. 1701g–1 are also barred, except for commitments made on or before June 30, 1953 or to refinance loans the Secretary already held on that date.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §1591c

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After June 30, 1953, no construction of permanent housing may be begun under subchapter IX of this chapter. After July 31, 1954, (a) no mortgage may be insured under title IX of the National Housing Act, as amended [12 U.S.C. 1750 et seq.] (except (i) pursuant to a commitment to insure issued on or before such date or (ii) after July 31, 1954, and until August 1, 1955, during such period, or for such project or projects, as the President may designate hereunder or (iii) pursuant to a commitment to insure issued pursuant to the preceding clause (ii)), (b) no agreement may be made to extend assistance for the provision of community facilities or services under subchapter IX of this chapter, and no construction of temporary housing or community facilities by the United States may be begun under such subchapter, except after July 31, 1954, and until August 1, 1955, during such period, or for such project or projects, as the President may designate hereunder: Provided, That to the extent necessary to assure the adequate completion of any facilities for which prior agreements have been made under subchapter IX, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, at any time after July 31, 1954, enter into amendatory agreements under such subchapter involving the expenditure of additional Federal funds within the balance available therefor on or before such date, (c) no loan may be made or obligations purchased by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under section 1701g–1 of title 12 (except pursuant to a commitment issued on or before June 30, 1953, or to refinance an existing loan or existing obligations held under such section by said Secretary on June 30, 1953).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The National Housing Act, referred to in text, is act
June 27, 1934, ch. 847, 48 Stat. 1246. Title IX of the National Housing Act is title IX of act
June 27, 1934, ch. 847, as added by act Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, title II, § 201, 65 Stat. 295, which is classified generally to subchapter X (§ 1750 et seq.) of chapter 13 of Title 12, Banks and Banking. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1701 of Title 12 and Tables. Section 1701g–1 of title 12, referred to in text, has been omitted from the Code.

Amendments

1955—Act Aug. 11, 1955, inserted item (iii) in cl. (a). Act
June 30, 1955, substituted “
August 1, 1955” for “
July 1, 1955” in two places in second sentence. 1954—Act Aug. 2, 1954, gave President standby authority to use mortgage insurance authority under title IX of the National Housing Act and the provisions in subchapter IX of this chapter for Federal aid in providing defense housing and community facilities and services in critical defense areas, in substitution for provisions under which authority for new projects under these two programs would have expired on
June 30, 1954, and authorized the Housing and Home Finance Administrator to enter into amendatory agreements after
June 30, 1954, to provide additional Federal assistance with respect to defense community facilities undertaken on or before such date where he finds it necessary to do so to assure the adequate completion of such facilities. Act
June 29, 1954, substituted “
July 31, 1954” for “
June 30, 1954” at beginning of second sentence. 1953—Act
June 30, 1953, inserted sentence prohibiting the beginning of permanent housing

Construction

under subchapter IX of this chapter, after
June 30, 1953; substituted “
June 30, 1954” for “
June 30, 1953” at beginning of present second sentence and “temporary housing” for “housing” in cl. (b) of present second sentence; struck a former cl. (c) out of existing second sentence which provided that (after
June 30, 1953) no land might be acquired by the Housing and Home Finance Administrator under subchapter X of this chapter; and redesignated cl. (d) as (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, see note set out under section 1581 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

42 U.S.C. § 1591c

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102