42 USC § 12702 - Objective of national housing policy

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s12702"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 12702 - Objective of national housing policy"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "12702"
section_name: "Objective of national housing policy"
chapter_number: 130
chapter_name: "NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "GENERAL PROVISIONS AND POLICIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 101–625, title I, § 102, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4085.)"
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# § 12702. Objective of national housing policy

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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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 101–625, title I, § 102, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4085.)