{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s12702","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f12702.","heading":"Objective of national housing policy","text":"\u00a7\u202f12702.\nObjective of national housing policy\nThe 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\u2014\n(1) to ensure that every resident of the United States has access to decent shelter or assistance in avoiding homelessness;\n(2) to increase the Nation\u2019s supply of decent housing that is affordable to low-income and moderate-income families and accessible to job opportunities;\n(3) to improve housing opportunities for all residents of the United States, particularly members of disadvantaged minorities, on a nondiscriminatory basis;\n(4) to help make neighborhoods safe and livable;\n(5) to expand opportunities for homeownership;\n(6) to provide every American community with a reliable, readily available supply of mortgage finance at the lowest possible interest rates; and\n(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.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s12702.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s12702","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f12702."},{"t":"heading","text":"Objective of national housing policy","tail":"\n"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"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\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s12702/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" to ensure that every resident of the United States has access to decent shelter or assistance in avoiding homelessness;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s12702/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" to increase the Nation\u2019s supply of decent housing that is affordable to low-income and moderate-income families and accessible to job opportunities;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s12702/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" to improve housing opportunities for all residents of the United States, particularly members of disadvantaged minorities, on a nondiscriminatory basis;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s12702/4","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(4)"},{"t":"content","text":" to help make neighborhoods safe and livable;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s12702/5","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(5)"},{"t":"content","text":" to expand opportunities for homeownership;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s12702/6","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(6)"},{"t":"content","text":" to provide every American community with a reliable, readily available supply of mortgage finance at the lowest possible interest rates; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s12702/7","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(7)"},{"t":"content","text":" 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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}