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Housing and Related Legislation
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Tenement House Act
This improved conditions in already constructed and for building tenment houses. -
Housing for Veterans
The U.S. Housing Corporation was etablished to provide housing for veterans. -
Federal Home Bank Act of 1932
The Federal Home Bank Act established 12 district Federal Home Loan Banks as the framework of a reserve credit organization for home-financing institutions. -
Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933
This Act established a corporation to refinance the mortgages of distressed homeowners. -
Federal Housing Administreation
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Housing Act of 1937
It started the public housing program with the objective of providing decent, sanitary housing for low-income families. The Housing Act of 1937 set the principle of basing rental payments on a family's ability to pay. -
The Lanham Act
This provided for federal financing of housing for those involved in the war effort. Two million home were built due to this Act. -
National Housing Agency
This agency was created by executive order was the first attempt to coordinate all federal housing programs. -
Veteran's Emergency Housing Act and Farmers Home Administeration (now called Rural Development Administration)
The Veteran's Emergency Housing Act established the VA program for mortgage insurance. The Farmers Housing Administration was created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture; it offers assistance in rural areas to help families obtain housing. -
The President's "Recognization Plan No. 3"
This created the Housing and Home Finance Agency,. The Federal Housing Administration, the Public Housing Administration, and the Home Loan Bank were all brought under the supervision of the Housing Administrator. -
Housing Act of 1949
It developed the now well-known expression of a "decent home and suitable enviroment for every American family." -
Government and Housing Policies
The objective was to create a total program to prevent housing blight. -
Housing Act of 1954
This included the "Workable Program" and established the Urban Planning Assistance Program (701 Program.) -
Housing Act of 1956
It established relocation payments for families and businesses, aid for housing for older people, and the General Neighborhood Renewal Program. -
Housing Act of 1959
It extended the urban renewal program and created the Community Renewal Program. -
Housing Act of 1961
This shifted more of the financial burden from local communities to the federal government. -
Housing Act of 1964
The Housing Act of 1964 authorized code enforcement of urban renewal projects intended to attack the beginnings of blight in basically sound areas. -
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965
This authorized the formation of cabinet-level federal agency, named the U.S. Department of Housing and Ubran Development (HUD). It approved a variety of new approaches to urban improvement. -
Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966
This Act required the provision of a substantial number of low- and moderate-cost standard housing units in the development of an urban renewal area. -
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
It added two new programs to house low- and moderate-income families whose incomes were above the level permitted by public housing. The government helped pay home mortgage and mortgage interest of the housing project sponser. -
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970
This authorized the establishment of a national urban growth policy to encourage and support orderly growth of populated areas. -
Housing and Community Development Act
Funds were provided to begin and continue urban renewal or neighborhood development programs. -
Energy Policy and Conversation Act, Emergency Homeowner's Relief Act of 1975
It mandated appliance labeling. This authorized temporary assistance to help defray mortgage payments on homes owned by persons who were temporarily unemployed or underemployed as the result of adverse economics conditions. -
Housing Authorization Act of 1976
The Act amended and extended many laws relating to fields of housing and commerical development. -
Housing and Community Development Act
This made it easier for people to buy and improve their dwellings; it revised many loan regulations. Other improvement for other Acts:
-programs for weatherization
-regulating discharges of pollutants
-setting water quality standards for all contaminants in surface waters -
National Energy Conservation Policy Act
It required energy-saving measures nationwide and reduce the country's dependence on oil from other nations. -
Housing and Community Development Act
It extended programs and appropriate funds to carry out the initial purpose of the Act. -
Household Moving Bill
This movers to offer binding estimates of what a move would cost. -
Reagan Admistration
They agreed to increase subsides to builders of low-income housing. -
President Reagan's Measures To Help People Buy Homes
-eased regulations on mortgage revenue bonds
-increased money available for homebuyers
-more first-time homebuyers to qualify for loans
-reduced processing time for FHA loan applications
-relaxed government restrictions that limited real estate firms' participation in related businesses -
Bill Worth $760 Million Dollars
This bill was to provide federal loans to homeowners facing foreclosure or falling far behind on mortgage payments because of the recession. -
Housing and Community Development Act
The Act provided emergency food and shelter to the homeless. -
Eviromental Protection Agency
Programs to clean hazardous waste sites were expanded. -
Federal Omnibus Act and McKinney Homeless Assistance Act
Reforms in residents' rights and care standards in nursing homes. Created to protect and improve their lives and safety of the homeless. -
Fair Housing Act
-gave HUD the authority to penalize those practicing discrimination in housing sales and rentals
-provided architectural accessibility and adaptable design requirements in new multifamily housing -
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act and Clean Air Act
-to help families purchase homes -provided measures to reduce pollution for benefit tot he health of the general public -
Cranston-Gonzalez Act
The Ast was amended to include war veterans and residents of Indian Reservations. -
Residental Lead-Based Paint Hazard Act and Energy Policy Act of 1992
-requires sellers, landlords, and agents to warn homebuyers and tenants of lead-based paint and its hazards in housing built prior to 1978 -required that states adopt a residential building code for energy efficency that meets or exceeds the Council of American Building Officials (CABO) Mode Energy Code -
Housing Act for Older Persons Act of 1995
This was passed to exempt housing communities of older persons from the Fair Housing Act discrimination charges. -
Federal Law, Native American Housing Assistance Act, Self-Determination Act, Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974
-disclosure of lead-based paint -improving the delivery of housing assistance to Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of tribal self-governance and other priorities -amended to go beyond just the treatment of water for safety -
Housing Opportunity and Responsibility Act of 1997, Clean Air Act
-provided for the demolition of deteriorating public housing and replacement with mixed-income housing through parnerships with the public sector -established air quality standards -
Federal Housing Assistance
It was increased to Native Hawaiians. -
Federal Omnibus Act of 1987
It was amended and expanded to require skilled nursing facilities to provide services to meet the highest practical physical, medical, and psychological well-being of every resident. -
American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000, Energy Conservation and Production Act of 1976
-provides removal of barriers to homeowernship, including down payment provisions
-tribal housing, people with special needs, and others benefit from the law -expanded to include a model program for weatherizing housing of low-income families -
Administration on the Aging
This administration helped vulnerable older persons remain in their own homes by providing support services.
