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Bill· SS. 664 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1977
Young Families' Housing Act - Graduated Payment Mortgage Insurance Act - Amends the National Housing Act to permit the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure, on a regular basis, mortgages and loans with provisions for varying rates of amortization corresponding to anticipated variations in family income. Sets a percentage limit on the mortgage value ratio of mortgages which will be insurable under this Act. Prescribes eligibility requirements for such insurance. States that mortgages or loans insured pursuant to this Act shall not be subject to State usury laws in most cases. Individual Housing Account Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for amounts paid in cash into an individual housing account. Defines the term "individual housing account" for the purposes of this Act. Limits annual tax deductions to $2,500 and lifetime deductions to $10,000. Makes provisions for tax treatment upon distribution of such accounts. Exempts individual housing accounts from taxation under the Internal Revenue Code.
Bill· HRH.R. 3449 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1968 to allow the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to initiate civil actions to enforce the provisions of such Act. Extends from 30 to 60 days the period during which no civil suits may be initiated and the Secretary must make efforts to obtain voluntary compliance with such Act. Permits courts to award attorneys' fees to prevailing plaintiffs without regard to his financial ability to assume such fees.
Bill· HRH.R. 3389 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Federal Housing Bank Act - Declares the finding of the Congress, including that: (1) decent, safe, and sanitary housing cannot be provided if interest rates on home mortgages are inordinately high; and (2) Congress must create an institution which can reduce the costs of financing the purchase of a home for the average American family. Creates a body corporate to be known as the Federal Housing Bank, which shall have succession until dissolved by an Act of Congress. Requires that the Bank shall be an agency of the United States Government and shall maintain such offices as may be necessary or appropriate. Sets forth the general powers of the Bank. Establishes the management of the Bank. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to facilitate the formation of the Bank, to pay initial organizing and operating expenses. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $500,00 for this purpose. Grants the Bank the authority: (1) to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase, service, and sell home mortgages on single family homes, or condominiums or cooperatives, from the Federal National Mortgage Association of the Federal Home Loan Bank system; and (2) to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase, hold, and refinance mortgages on homes of persons who certify that they have been unemployed for six months and do not have assets that could be used to pay the mortgage on their principal dwelling place. Authorizes the Bank to declare a moratorium on payments of principal, interest, or both for a period of 18 months on terms and conditions to be determined by the bank so as to alleviate hardship arising from unemployment. Authorizes the Bank to issue and have outstanding obligations having such maturities and leasing such interest as may be determined by the Bank. Permits the Bank to require the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase obligations of the Bank. Authorizes annual payments to the Bank by the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires an audit report to the Congress on an annual basis. Provides for an additional annual report to the Congress on the Bank's activities. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3396 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veteran's Affairs to assist veterans with a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss or loss of use of one upper and one lower extremity in acquiring specially adapted housing.
Bill· HRH.R. 3357 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to provide that units of general local government receiving grants, under the hold-harmless provisions of such Act, shall be entitled, after fiscal year 1977, to continue to receive the amount to which they are presently entitled.
Bill· HRH.R. 3379 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Foreclosure Forebearance Standards Act - Requires any person who makes a federally related mortgage loan to maintain facilities sufficient to assure availability to the mortgagor of information concerning such mortgage. States that within 60 days after payments on a mortgage become delinquent and within 30 days before the initiation of any foreclosure proceedings the following must occur: (1) a meeting with the mortgagor to work out a repayment plan; and (2) a transfer of information with respect to such proceedings to the mortgagor. Places restraints on the initiation of foreclosure proceedings, including the requirement that a mortgagee refrain from instituting such proceedings until at least three full monthly installments are due and unpaid, except where the mortgagor abandons the secured property. States that a mortgagee must cease foreclosure proceedings where a mortgagor tenders the total amount due plus attorneys fees. Provides that any mortgagee who fails to comply with such stated requirements shall no longer be eligible for Federal assistance.
Bill· HRH.R. 3278 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1977
Revises the lower-income housing assistance program of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish a task force to evaluate housing for the elderly and report to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and to Congress on proposals for actions designed to improve such program. Requires the Secretary to submit periodical reports to Congress with respect to the operation of such program. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor in establishing the wages prevailing in an locality in which a project is located, to require wages to reflect the actual wages being paid in the immediate area in which the project is located.
Bill· HRH.R. 3238 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1977
Amends the Older Americans Act by adding the following title: Title VIII: Relief for Older Americans Who Own or Rent Their Homes. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to reimburse the States for real property tax relief programs aimed at elderly households with incomes of $15,000 or less. Provides that the amount of such reimbursement shall be a percentage (determined on the basis of the household income) of the tax relief provided multiplied by the aggregate number of households receiving such relief. Authorizes to be appropriated the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act for fiscal years 1977 through 1979.
Bill· HRH.R. 3212 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1977
Title I: Heating Fuel Subsidy Program - Heating Fuel Subsidy and Home Winterization Act - Establishes a heating fuel subsidy program to be administered by the Director of the Community Services Administration. Directs the Director to establish uniform national eligibility requirements for participation by households in the program in accordance with minimum prescribed criteria. Establishes procedures for submission and approval of State plans for the operation of such program. Details the responsibilities and obligations assumed by the States and the Federal Government in administration of the program. Authorizes the establishment of emergency heating fuel subsidy programs where determined necessary by the Director. Imposes criminal penalties for unauthorized use of subsidies granted under this title. Authorizes appropriations for the continuance of subsidies under this program through fiscal year 1983. Title II: Tax Credit for Insulation Expenditures - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow individuals a limited, refundable tax credit for expenditures for installation of insulation measures in residences.
Bill· SS. 609 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1977
Home-Heating Stamp Act - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to establish a home-heating stamp program to reduce the hardships imposed on low-income households by high home-heating costs and to permit such households to obtain reasonable amounts of home-heating fuels through normal channels of trade. Directs that such program be administered by the Department of Agriculture and the appropriate State agencies which administer the food stamp program. Defines a "household" for the purposes of this Act as a group of individuals who are not residents of an institution and are living as one economic unit, or a single individual living alone. Exempts recipients of supplemental security income benefits from the kinds of restrictions on their participation found in the food stamp program. Limits the home-heating fuel stamp program to the fifty States and the District of Columbia. Authorizes the issuance of home-heating coupons which shall have a greater monetary value than any charge paid by eligible households and which shall be used only: (1) to purchase home-heating fuels from approved providers; or (2) in the case of a household which rents its residence and does not pay its home-heating fuel bill directly to a provider, to offset any rent due its landlord. Requires landlords accepting such coupons as partial rent payment to use such coupons to pay all or part of their fuel bills and prohibits them from increasing rents in connection with or as a result of the use of home-heating coupons by an eligible household. Provides that such coupons shall be redeemable at face value, and that the coupon allotment for any household shall be in an amount reflecting the monthly equivalent of the minimal cost of a reasonable amount of home-heating fuel for a single heating season. Limits the validity of coupons to one heating season, not to exceed six months, which shall be established for a State by the State agency. Requires as a charge to participating households for their coupon allotments a standard percentage of the monthly household income in no event more than the percentage of personal consumption expenditures shown to be spent on home-heating fuels by the best information available to the Secretary. States that no such charge is to be made to households with an income of less than $30 per month for a family of four. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish uniform national standards of eligibility for participating households; and also allows the establishment of temporary emergency standards, for the duration of the emergency, without regard to income or other financial resources, for households that are victims of a disaster which disrupts the normal distribution of home-heating fuels. Directs the Secretary to approve home-heating providers under regulations patterned after those used to approve retail food stores and wholesale food concerns for participation in the food stamp program. States that the administrative provisions of the Food Stamp Act of 1964 shall apply equally to the home-heating fuel program. Requires, in the administration of such program, that all practicable efforts by made to insure that assistance provided does not induce unnecessary additional consumption of home-heating fuel.
Bill· SS. 605 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1977
Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for the establishment of escrow accounts for taxes and insurance by borrowers for farm housing.
Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 9 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1977
Declares it to be the sense of Congress that the Federal Home Loan Bank Board should adopt regulations permitting Federal savings and loan associations to offer Flexible mortgage instruments in states where State-chartered savings and loan associations are permitted to offer such types of mortgages and permits the Board to authorize a similar program in other States. Requires the Board to consider consumer safeguards, the existing competitive environment and the needs of Federal savings and loan associations before adopting such regulations.
Bill· SS. 575 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Amends the National Housing Act to require the payment of operating subsidies for projects subject to certain federally insured mortgages.
Bill· HRH.R. 3073 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited tax credit in an amount of $250 for each individual who is at least 65 years of age before the beginning of the taxable year, whose principal place of abode during the taxable year is the principal residence of the taxpayer, and who is not a lodger with the taxpayer.
Bill· HRH.R. 3025 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to determine that a multifamily housing facility for the elderly is equipped with an emergency generator or other emergency power equipment which is adequate to furnish electrical power for essential utilities in the event of power failure, before extending mortgage insurance, grants, loans or other assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to the owners or sponsors of multifamily housing facilities for the elderly and to insure loans made by financial institutions to the owners or sponsors of such facilities, to pay the full cost of providing such equipment. Authorizes the appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3068 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Amends the Housing Act of 1937 to reduce the amount of rent required to be paid by elderly families residing in dwelling units assisted by Federal contributions.
Bill· HRH.R. 3062 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans for rental or cooperative mobile home projects for elderly or handicapped families.
Bill· HRH.R. 3028 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Campuses for the Elderly Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to institute a program under which qualified organizations, public and private, will submit plans for the development of carefully conceived plans for the development of carefully conceived and innovative projects to meet the special health care, housing and related needs of elderly persons in the campus-type setting. Provides that from the plans submitted the Secretary shall select which he determines are most promising in furtherance of the objectives of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make, and contract to make, interest subsidy payments to the holder of any mortgage covering a project designed in accordance with a plan selected under this Act. Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary to insure and make commitments to insure mortgages on properties developed under this Act. Requires an evaluation of such projects not later than two years after their implementation to determine their effectiveness and suitability in meeting the needs of elderly persons. Provides that such evaluation shall be made by a committee which shall submit to the Secretary for transmittal to the Congress a report with respect to its findings and recommendations not later than six months after the date on which the committee is fully organized. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums (not to exceed $70,000) as may be necessary to carry out this evaluation.
Bill· HRH.R. 3024 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to give special emphasis to insuring mortgages covering group practice facilities or medical practice facilities which are to be used primarily for the purpose of providing preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services to elderly outpatients. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to entitle a grant recipient to an additional grant for the construction or maintenance of a senior center providing recreational, health, and nutritional services, regardless of whether such centers offer housing facilities. Directs the Secretary to prescribe eligibility requirements for block grants for senior centers. Redefines the term intermediate care facilities for purposes of the National Housing Act to include facilities that permit day health care services to the extent necessary to serve the needs of elderly persons served by the facility.
Bill· HRH.R. 3030 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Amends Title XVI (Supplemental Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) to require the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to pay a special housing allowance to each eligible individual whose housing expenses exceed 25 percent of income or $1,200 a year, whichever is less.
Bill· HRH.R. 3026 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1977
Amends the Housing Act of 1937 to prevent social security benefit increases from being considered as income or otherwise taken into account: (1) for purposes of determining the eligibility of any individual or family for admission to or occupancy of low-rent housing; or (2) for purposes of determining the amount of rental which an individual or family is required to pay. Amends the National Housing Act to provide that social security benefit increases shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining the following: (1) the eligibility of any individual or family for mortgage insurance or local housing assistance payments; (2) the eligibility of any individual or family for admission to or occupancy of rental housing projects; (3) whether an individual or family is a qualified-tenant for purposes of rent supplement payments; or (4) the eligibility of any individual or family for housing assistance under any other Federal program.
Bill· SS. 571 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1977
Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1968 to allow the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to initiate civil actions to enforce the provisions of such Act. Permits courts to award attorneys' fees to prevailing plaintiffs in civil rights actions without regard to financial ability to assume such fees.
Bill· HRH.R. 2934 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assist any veteran, who has a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, of one arm and one leg, including but not limited to cases of hemiplegia, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair, in acquiring a suitable housing unit with special fixtures or moveable facilities made necessary by the nature of the veteran's disability, and necessary land therefor.
Bill· HRH.R. 2935 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assist any veteran, who has a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, of one arm and one leg, including but not limited to cases of hemiplegia, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair, in acquiring a suitable housing unit with special fixtures or moveable facilities made necessary by the nature of the veteran's disability, and necessary land therefor.
Bill· HRH.R. 2855 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1977
National Condominium and Tenants Rights Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares the purposes of the Act, including to establish minimum national standards governing the sale, ownership, conversion to, and extension of credit for condominiums. States that no condominium housing loan shall be made: (1) to any developer unless the creditor received a written property statement containing specified names, addresses, legal descriptions, costs and assurances; or (2) to any prospective purchaser unless the same written property statement has been submitted to such purchaser 21 days prior to any legally obligating document's execution. Provides similar protection for tenants in cases of condominium conversions. Prohibits discrimination against condominium-unit purchasers in the extension of credit on the basis of age, sex, marital status, religion, race, or national origin. Provides for the designation of an Assistant Secretary for Condominiums in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and enumerates the duties to be performed. Requires each creditor subject to the provisions of this Act to file an annual report with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development showing the extent of compliance with the provisions of this Act. Creates a civil remedy against creditors by persons discriminated against in violation of this Act. States that any developer or creditor who violates the provisions of this Act shall be fined not more than $15,000 for each violation. Empowers the Secretary to encourage and make grants to State and local governments to help establish offices to administer and enforce State and local requirements with respect to condominiums. Enumerates the requirements to be met by any plan for the protection of purchasers of condominium units and those displaced by conversion to such units prior to the making of any grants.
Bill· HRH.R. 2793 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1977
Amends the Older Americans Act by adding the following title: Title VIII: Relief for Older Americans Who Own or Rent Their Homes. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to reimburse the States for real property tax relief programs aimed at elderly households with incomes of $15,000 or less. Provides that the amount of such reimbursement shall be a percentage (determined on the basis of the household income) of the tax relief provided multiplied by the aggregate number of households receiving such relief. Authorizes to be appropriated the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act for fiscal years 1977 through 1979.
Bill· HRH.R. 2819 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1977
Establishes an Office of Inspector General within each of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, and Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Energy Research and Development, General Services, National Aeronautics and Space, and Veterans' Administrations. Makes it the duty of such Offices to direct the auditing and investigation of the programs of the agency in which each such Office is established and to recommend policies to each respective agency to promote the efficiency and economy of and to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in the programs administered by each agency. Directs each such Office to coordinate the relationships between its agency and other Federal agencies, States, and local government agencies in carrying out its mission. Requires each such Office to keep Congress and the head of the respective agency fully informed concerning its activities and findings. Specifies the frequency and content of reports. Transfers to each Office specified existing audit and investigation offices within the appropriate agencies.
Bill· HRH.R. 2792 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1977
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to require that any lease or rental agreement entered into or renewed by a person aged 62 or over with respect to a dwelling unit assisted by a Federal housing program shall contain provisions entitling such person to terminate, without penalty, the lease or rental agreement if such person or his or her spouse dies or incurs any mental or physical disability during the period of the lease or rental agreement.
Bill· HRH.R. 2749 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Allows a tax deduction up to $750 for ordinary and necessary expenses incurred by a taxpayer under the Internal Revenue Code in making repairs and improvements to his residence during the taxable year. Allows the owner of rental housing to amortize at an accelerated rate (over a 60-month period) the cost of rehabilitating or restoring such housing. Authorizes the taxpayer to switch from such accelerated amortization to the regular depreciation deduction allowable under the Internal Revenue Code for property used in a trade or business or held for the production of income.
Bill· HRH.R. 2691 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a refundable income tax credit for 50 percent of the wages paid new employees during the taxable years for work done in the United States. Limits the credit taken to $80,000. Limits the number of employees for whom credit may be taken to ten new employees, or the maximum number of employees paid by the taxpayer during the calendar quarter ending the previous June 30th, whichever number is less. Directs the Secretary to submit reports to Congress, in 1978 and 1980 assessing the impact of this credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 2683 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to add a population-density factor to the definition of urban county.
Bill· HRH.R. 2645 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from applying regulations affecting permanent housing for agricultural workers to mobile housing in the range sheep industry or temporary range cattle camps.
Bill· HRH.R. 2643 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Condominium Consumer Protection Act - Stipulates that it shall be unlawful for any developer or agent, directly or indirectly, to make use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce, or of the mails, to sell or offer to sell any condominium unit in a condominium project unless such developer or agent complies with provisions of this Act. States that any contract or agreement for the purchase or leasing of a condominium in a project covered by this Act, shall be voidable at the option of the purchaser for a specified period of time. Stipulates that a sale or offer to sell a condominium unit in a condominium project which is subject to this Act may be made only if: (1) any deposit or downpayment will be held in trust or escrow pursuant to regulations of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development until delivered at settlement or returned to, or otherwise credited to, the purchaser, or forfeited; (2) except in his capacity as an owner of unsold condominium units, the developer or agent will not retain an interest in any common element (including any recreational area or facility) after control of the condominium project is assumed by the owners' association unless, in the case of a leasehold condominium project, he will also retain that same type of interest in the entire condominium project; (3) the unit owners will assume control of the common elements and of the condominium owners' association not later than one year after initial occupancy of the condominium project, or as soon as 80 percent of the Units are occupied, whichever is earlier; (4) the condominium owners' association or the unit owners will not be subject to any management contract or other agreement enforceable against them after the expiration of six months after control of the common elements by the condominium owners' association becomes vested in such owners' association or owners, unless such a contract or agreement is renewed by a vote of the unit owners in accordance with the by-laws; (5) the developer has furnished, as a minimum, a two-year warranty (from the time of initial occupancy of the project) covering the full cost of labor and materials for any repair or replacement of roof and structural components, and mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and common service elements serving the condominium project as a whole, and a one-year warranty (from the time of initial occupancy of any unit thereof) covering the full cost of labor and materials for any repair or replacement of structural, mechanical, and other elements which pertain to such unit; (6) the developer will assume the rights and obligations of a condominium unit owner in his capacity as owner of condominium units not yet sold prior to the assumption of control under clause (3); and (7) in the case of a conversion condominium project, all tenants were offered an option, exercisable within not less than 90 days after notice, to purchase a condominium unit in the condominium project. Sets forth standards for disclosure by condominium developers of all material circumstances or features affecting their projects. Allows for State plans of condominium consumer protection plans. Authorizes State enforcement of provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide technical assistance and information to the States to assist them in their plans under the provisions of this Act. Establishes criminal and civil penalties for failures to comply with specified provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $10,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act. Grants jurisdiction to United States District Courts over any suit or action which may be brought to enforce any liability or duty created by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2638 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to provide that units of general local government receiving grants, under the hold-harmless provisions of such Act, shall be entitled, after fiscal year 1977, to continue to receive the amount to which they are presently entitled.
Bill· HRH.R. 2631 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a limited tax credit in an amount of $250 for each individual who is at least 61 years of age before the beginning of the taxable year, whose principal place of abode during the taxable year is the principal residence of the taxpayer, and who is not a lodger with the taxpayer.
Bill· HRH.R. 2626 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to assist any veteran, who has a permanent and total service-connected disability due to the loss, or loss of use, of one arm and one leg, including but not limited to cases of hemiplegia, such as to preclude locomotion without the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a wheelchair, in acquiring a suitable housing unit with special fixtures or moveable facilities made necessary by the nature of the veteran's disability, and necessary land therefor.
Bill· HRH.R. 2577 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to provide that units of general local government receiving grants, under the hold-harmless provisions of such Act, shall be entitled, after fiscal year 1977, to continue to receive the amount to which they are presently entitled.
Bill· HRH.R. 2532 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1968 to allow the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to initiate civil actions to enforce the provisions of such Act. Extends from 30 to 60 days the period during which no civil suits may be initiated and the Secretary must make efforts to obtain voluntary compliance with such Act. Permits courts to award attorneys' fees to prevailing plaintiffs without regard to his financial ability to assume such fees.
Bill· HRH.R. 2534 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans to individuals and families owning and occupying one-to-four family residential structures to assist them in purchasing and installing qualified solar heating and cooling equipment. Stipulates that such loans may be made in an amount covering up to 75 percent of the cost of purchasing and installing the necessary equipment, and not exceeding amounts specified in this Act. Sets forth the terms and conditions governing the loans. Specifies eligibility criteria for solar heating and cooling equipment in order to qualify for loans under this Act. Directs the Energy Research and Development Administration to establish procedures for periodic inspection and review of solar heating and cooling equipment models and certifications. Directs the Secretary to disseminate full, complete, and current information concerning recommended standards and types of qualified solar heating or solar heating and cooling equipment appropriate for use in residential structures of varying sizes and types and in various regions of the country. Imposes criminal penalties for making false or misleading statements in attempting to obtain loans under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $100,000,000 into a revolving fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2487 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to increase relocation payments to individuals, families, and business concerns displaced from urban renewal areas. Sets forth the method for determining losses of property for purposes of this Act.
Bill· SS. 411 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Neighborhood Preservation Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to require localities to provide as part of their housing assistance plans a plan to identify and reclaim deteriorated housing stock where feasible. Lists acceptable approaches for achieving such objective. Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to require the designation of concentrated revitalization areas in which 90 percent of rehabilitation loan funds must be allocated. Replaces the three percent interest rate on such loans with a sliding scale interest rate between three and seven percent. Limits such loans to homeowners with incomes of less than $20,000.
Bill· SS. 395 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans to individuals and families owning and occupying one-to-four family residential structures to assist them in purchasing and installing qualified solar heating and cooling equipment. Stipulates that such loans may be made in an amount covering up to 75 percent of the cost of purchasing and installing the necessary equipment, and not exceeding amounts specified in this Act. Sets forth the terms and conditions governing the loans. Specifies eligibility criteria for solar heating and cooling equipment in order to qualify for loans under this Act. Directs the Energy Research and Development Administration to establish procedures for periodic inspection and review of solar heating and cooling equipment models and certifications. Directs the Secretary to disseminate full, complete, and current information concerning recommended standards and types of qualified solar heating or solar heating and cooling equipment appropriate for use in residential structures of varying sizes and types and in various regions of the country. Imposes criminal penalties for making false or misleading statements in attempting to obtain loans under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $100,000,000 into a revolving fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2344 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1977
Amends the Housing Act of 1937 to require that before any tenant is evicted from a low-rent housing project, such tenant be afforded a public hearing before the public housing authority after written notice of the proposed eviction determines whether the eviction is legally justified. States that such determination shall be made on the record and shall be subject to judicial review.
Bill· SS. 387 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1977
Includes unpledged deposits in the Bank of North Dakota, maintained by any institution which is a member of a Federal home loan bank or is an insured institution as defined in the National Housing Act, as part of the assets required for purposes of meeting specified liquidity requirements of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2274 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans to individuals and families owning and occupying one-to-four family residential structures to assist them in purchasing and installing qualified solar heating and cooling equipment. Stipulates that such loans may be made in an amount covering up to 75 percent of the cost of purchasing and installing the necessary equipment, and not exceeding amounts specified in this Act. Sets forth the terms and conditions governing the loans. Specifies eligibility criteria for solar heating and cooling equipment in order to qualify for loans under this Act. Directs the Energy Research and Development Administration to establish procedures for periodic inspection and review of solar heating and cooling equipment models and certifications. Directs the Secretary to disseminate full, complete, and current information concerning recommended standards and types of qualified solar heating or solar heating and cooling equipment appropriate for use in residential structures of varying sizes and types and in various regions of the country. Imposes criminal penalties for making false or misleading statements in attempting to obtain loans under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $100,000,000 into a revolving fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· SS. 374 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Federal Housing Bank Act - Declares the findings of the Congress, including that: (1) decent, safe, and sanitary housing cannot be provided if interest rates on home mortgages are inordinately high; and (2) Congress must create an institution which can reduce the costs of financing the purchase of a home for the average American family. Creates a body corporate to be known as the Federal Housing Bank, which shall have succession until dissolved by Act of Congress. Requires that the Bank shall be an agency of the United States Government and shall maintain such offices as may be necessary or appropriate. Sets forth the general powers of the Bank. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in order to facilitate the formation of the Bank, to pay initial organizing and operating expenses. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $500,000 for this purpose. Grants the Bank the authority: (1) to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase, service, and sell home mortgages on single family homes, or condominiums or cooperatives, from the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Bank system, and (2) to make commitments to purchase, and to purchase, hold, and refinance mortgages on homes of persons who certify that they have been unemployed for six months and do not have assets that could be used to pay the mortgage on their principal dwelling place. Authorizes the Bank to declare a moratorium on payments of principal, interest, or both for a period of 18 months on terms and conditions to be determined by the Bank so as to alleviate hardship arising from unemployment. Authorizes the Bank to issue and have outstanding obligations having such maturities and bearing such interest as may be determined by the Bank. Permits the Bank to require the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase obligations of the Bank. Authorizes annual payments to the Bank by the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires an audit report to the Congress on an annual basis. Provides for an additional annual report to the Congress on the Bank's activities.
Bill· HRH.R. 2178 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
National Condominium and Tenants Rights Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares the purposes of the Act, including to establish minimum national standards governing the sale, ownership, conversion to, and extension of credit for condominiums. States that no condominium housing loan shall be made: (1) to any developer unless the creditor received a written property statement containing specified names, addresses, legal descriptions, costs and assurances; or (2) to any prospective purchaser unless the same written property statement has been submitted to such purchaser 21 days prior to any legally obligating document's execution. Provides similar protection for tenants in cases of condominium conversions. Prohibits discrimination against condominium-unit purchasers in the extension of credit on the basis of age, sex, marital status, religion, race, or national origin. Provides for the designation of an Assistant Secretary for Condominiums in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and enumerates the duties to be performed. Requires each creditor subject to the provisions of this Act to file an annual report with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development showing the extent of compliance with the provisions of this Act. Creates a civil remedy against creditors by persons discriminated against in violation of this Act. States that any developer or creditor who violates the provisions of this Act shall be fined not more than $15,000 for each violation. Empowers the Secretary to encourage and make grants to State and local governments to help establish offices to administer and enforce State and local requirements with respect to condominiums. Enumerates the requirements to be met by any plan for the protection of purchasers of condominium units and those displaced by conversion to such units prior to the making of any grants.
Bill· HRH.R. 2166 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Allows a tax deduction up to $750 for ordinary and necessary expenses incurred by a taxpayer under the Internal Revenue Code in making repairs and improvements to his residence during the taxable year. Allows the owner of rental housing to amortize at an accelerated rate (over a 60-month period) the cost of rehabilitating or restoring such housing. Authorizes the taxpayer to switch from such accelerated amortization to the regular depreciation deduction allowable under the Internal Revenue Code for property used in a trade or business or held for the production of income.
Bill· HRH.R. 2125 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to provide that units of general local government receiving grants, under the hold-harmless provisions of such Act, shall be entitled, after fiscal year 1977, to continue to receive the amount to which they are presently entitled.
Bill· HRH.R. 2113 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to revise the allocation formula for community development assistance to metropolitan cities and urban counties in order to insure that the areas of greatest need will receive the most assistance. Extends, by one year, the period during which the hold-harmless amount of any metropolitan city, urban county or unit of local government is applicable. Sets forth the method by which such hold-harmless amount shall be computed. Increases and extends over a period of eight fiscal years the amount of funds authorized to be appropriated for grants to States and local governments. Expands the uses to which discretionary funds may be put. Requires that a special discretionary fund be set aside for use by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in making grants to States and local governments which join in carrying out housing and community development programs that are areawide in scope. Sets priorities which recipients of grants must follow in utilizing the funds from such grants including: areas with high concentrations of impoverished and unemployed persons, and areas with high concentrations of dwelling units which were constructed before 1939 and are currently being used for dwelling units.