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Bill· HRH.R. 14402 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 October 1978
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to assist units of general local government within metropolitan areas in the repair of physical defects in Federal public works projects (such as vaulted sidewalks).
Bill· HRH.R. 14315 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1978
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to guarantee those obligations incurred by units of local government to finance activities necessary to alleviate a shortage or potential shortage of potable water where the Secretary determines available grant funding is insufficient. Enables such a guarantee to be made even if the application and/or the total outstanding debt of a unit of local government fails to meet statutory requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to accept as security to assure repayment of such guaranteed debt: (1) a commitment by a local government to impose a unit surcharge on water; or (2) other financial resources of a local government.
Bill· HRH.R. 14284 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1978
Amends the National Housing Act to make officers in the Public Health Service eligible for mortgage insurance currently available to servicemen in the armed forces, Coast Guard, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Bill· SS. 3542 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1978
Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish an urban park and recreation recovery program to provide financial assistance to local governments for rehabilitation of recreation areas and facilities and for development of improved recreation programs. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) criteria for determining eligibility for assistance under this program; and (2) funding priority criteria for project selection and approval. Requires the Secretary to coordinate this program with the total urban recovery effort and to cooperate with other State and Federal departments and agencies which administer urban programs and policies. Authorizes the appropriation of $170,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1979 through 1980 to carry out the purposes of this Act, such sums to remain available until expended. Prohibits the use of such funds for the acquisition of land or interests in land.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 165 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1978
Amends the National Housing Act to extend specified Federal Housing Administration insurance programs for 30 days. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to extend for 30 days the authority for financial assistance to community development programs. Extends for 30 days the authority for the purchase of mortgages under the Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act of 1974. Amends the National Flood Insurance Act to extend the authority: (1) to enter into new flood insurance contracts; and (2) to provide subsidized flood insurance in emergencies. Extends the authority for rural housing programs under the Housing Act of 1949. Amends the National Housing Act to extend the Federal riot reinsurance program and the Federal crime insurance program for 30 days.
Bill· HRH.R. 14134 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify requirements regarding the use of structures for the housing, raising, or feeding of hogs, for purposes of the investment tax credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 14041 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a ten percent investment tax credit for the construction of enclosures or structures used exclusively for the housing, raising, or feeding of poultry or their produce.
Bill· HRH.R. 14054 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1978
Directs that a certain organization be relieved of liability to the United States for social security taxes paid during a specific time period, and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to repay to such organization the amount of taxes imposed during such time period.
Bill· HRH.R. 13977 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat an individual who conveys an apartment building or houses to a cooperative housing corporation and acquires stock in the cooperative and rights to the rental of one or more dwelling units in the cooperative, as a tenant- shareholder of the cooperative for purposes of the income tax deductions allowed to tenant-shareholders.
Bill· HRH.R. 13982 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify requirements regarding the use of structures for the housing, raising, or feeding of hogs, for purposes of the investment tax credit.
Bill· HRH.R. 13894 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to undertake programs, on an experimental basis, to demonstrate the feasibility of providing neighborhood self-help development funds, in the form of credit certificates of stimulated tax credit payments, directly to adult residents of selected urban neighborhoods, to permit residents to assign such resources directly to the public agency or private organization each resident chooses as worthy of support. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to redeem neighborhood improvement credits or to stimulate tax credit refunds. Requires the Secretary to establish standards for the qualification of neighborhood self-help organizations and public agencies to redeem credits made available under this Act. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the implementation of this Act.
Bill· SS. 3368 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1978
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to guarantee certain obligations of units of general local government eligible for urban development action grants under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977. Authorizes the guarantee of obligations incurred by such units of local government in financing specified community development activities, including: (1) the acquisition of real property; (2) the construction of public facilities, site improvements, and utilities; and (3) the equipping of commercial or industrial buildings and real property improvements.
Bill· HRH.R. 13694 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1978
Neighborhood Self-Help Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to provide other forms of assistance to neighborhood organizations for planning and carrying out housing, economic, and community development, and for neighborhood conservation and revitalization projects.
Bill· SS. 3312 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Blind Veterans Disability Housing Act - Removes the requirement that blind veterans also be unable to use one of their legs in order to be eligible for special housing for disabled veterans' assistance.
Bill· HRH.R. 13515 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to encourage each public housing agency to include at least one resident of a low-income housing project as a member of its governing board.
Bill· HRH.R. 13497 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1978
Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish an urban park and recreation recovery program to provide financial assistance for rehabilitation of recreation areas and facilities in the form of challenge grants to local governments. Sets the requirements for grant eligibility. Directs the Secretary to promulgate funding priority regulations, for processing and approval of grant proposals, which include the use of objective data to measure comparative need for assistance among local governments. Requires regulations to include criteria evaluating the extent to which local governments have demonstrated results in providing equal opportunity housing.
Bill· SS. 3289 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a ten percent investment tax credit for the construction of enclosures or structures used exclusively for the housing, raising, or feeding of poultry or their produce.
Bill· HRH.R. 13400 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1978
Individual Housing Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals an income tax deduction of up to $2,500 annually and $10,000 in a lifetime for contributions to an individual housing account. Makes such accounts tax exempt and allows distributions from such an account to be tax free if such distributions are used exclusively for the purchase of a principal residence for the distributee.
Bill· HRH.R. 13243 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to authorize the Council of the District of Columbia to delegate its authority to issue revenue bonds for housing undertakings to any housing finance agency established by it. Exempts payments of such bonds from Congressional approval.
Bill· HRH.R. 13224 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1978
Directs the Mayor of the District of Columbia, consistent with an urban renewal plan approved by the Council of the District of Columbia, to transfer all title and interest of the United States to and in specified property in Southwest Washington, D. C. to the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency. Authorizes the Agency, in accordance with the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, to lease or sell all or part of the transferred parcel.
Bill· SS. 3209 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
State Community Conservation and Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to contract to make and to make grants to States to assist in the implementation and execution of State community conservation and development strategies approved in accordance with the procedures of this Act. Stipulates that grants made pursuant to this Act shall serve as an incentive to States to implement and execute such strategies, and shall not be used by States to reduce existing levels of State assistance to distressed or declining communities. States that an application for a grant under this Act shall: (1) set forth a comprehensive State community conservation and development strategy; and (2) describe the process used for involving the legislature, the State's communities, and organizations of elected officials in the development of such strategy, and include other specified information. Directs the Secretary to establish the criteria to be used in the evaluation of and the awarding of grants for State community conservation and development strategies. Requires that communities be afforded an opportunity to object to any proposed plans before approval is granted by the Secretary.
Bill· SS. 3210 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
Livable Cities Act - States the purpose of this Act to be to further the efforts of urban communities and organizations to revitalize such communities both commercially and culturally. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to, or contract with, nonprofit organizations for projects which the Secretary, in consultation with the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, determines will carry out the purposes of this Act and which have substantial artistic, cultural, or urban design merit and represent community or neighborhood initiatives to revitalize such communities. Directs the Secretary and the Chairman to develop criteria for selecting programs to be assisted under this Act. Provides program guidelines and eligibility requirements for assistance under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for such programs for fiscal years 1979 and 1980.
Bill· SS. 3211 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
Neighborhood Self-Help Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants and to provide other forms of assistance to neighborhood organizations for planning and carrying out housing, economic, and community development, and for neighborhood conservation and revitalization projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 13194 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1978
Housing Opportunity Act - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to direct the Federal National Mortgage Association to make, and to contract to make, mortgage credit assistance payments to lenders who agree to make mortgage loans to eligible middle-income families purchasing new and rehabilitated homes. Limits qualifications for mortgage credit assistance payments.
Bill· HRH.R. 13170 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until January 1, 1984, the election to amortize, based on a 60-month period, expenditures to rehabilitate low- income rental housing.
Bill· HRH.R. 13156 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1978
Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish an urban park and recreation recovery program to provide financial assistance for rehabilitation of recreation areas and facilities in the form of challenge grants to local governments. Sets the requirements for grant eligibility. Directs the Secretary to promulgate funding priority regulations, for processing and approval of grant proposals, which include the use of objective data to measure comparative need for assistance among local governments. Requires regulations to include criteria evaluating the extent to which local governments have demonstrated results in providing equal opportunity housing.
Bill· HRH.R. 13147 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a ten percent investment tax credit for the construction of enclosures or structures used exclusively for the housing, raising, or feeding of poultry or their produce.
Bill· HRH.R. 13114 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Housing Opportunity Act - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to direct the Federal National Mortgage Association to make, and to contract to make, mortgage credit assistance payments to lenders who agree to make mortgage loans to eligible middle-income families purchasing new and rehabilitated homes. Limits qualifications for mortgage credit assistance payments.
Bill· HRH.R. 13124 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Individual Housing Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals an income tax deduction of up to $2,500 annually and $10,000 in a lifetime for contributions to an individual housing account. Makes such accounts tax exempt and allows distributions from such an account to be tax free if such distributions are used exclusively for the purchase of a principal residence for the distributee.
Bill· HRH.R. 13115 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Urban Grant University Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for, and establish a program of grants to, urban universities for (1) development of urban-oriented educational, research, or service programs; and (2) assistance in carrying out such programs. Establishes a five year comprehensive grant to a university qualifying as an "urban grant university" and establishes criteria for such designation. Creates an Urban University Advisory Council to (1) review, along with the Commissioner of Education, "urban grant university " applications; (2) advise the Commissioner; and (3) make recommendations to the President and to the Congress.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1226 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1978
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 12936 (Appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and certain independent Federal entities).
Law· HRH.R. 12936 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1978
Department of Housing and Urban Development - Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1979 - Title I: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes the following appropriations for fiscal year 1979: (1) Housing Programs: (a) for annual contributions for assisted housing; (b) for housing for the elderly or handicapped, (c) for housing payments (appropriation to liquidate contract authority), (d) for payments for operation of low-income housing projects; and (e) for the Federal Housing Administration Fund; (2) Government National Mortgage Association: for payment of participation sales insufficiencies; (3) Community Planning and Development: (a) for community development grants, (b) for urban development action grants, (c) for comprehensive planning grants, (d) for the rehabilitation loan fund, and (e) for the urban homesteading programs; (4) Federal Insurance Administration: for flood insurance; (5) Neighborhoods, Voluntary Associations and Consumer Protection: for housing counseling assistance; (6) Policy Development and Research; (7) Management and Administration: Department of Housing and Urban Development; and (8) Funds Appropriated to the President: Federal Disaster Assistance Administration (disaster relief). Title II: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1979 to the following: American Battle Monuments Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Cemeterial expenses, Army, Environmental Protection Agency, Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Science and Technology, Consumer Information Center, Office of Consumer Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Institute of Building Sciences, National Science Foundation, Selective Service System, Treasury Department, Veterans' Administration, and National Commission on Air Quality. Title III: Corporations - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1979 within the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to the following: for the limitation on the administrative expenses; for the limitation on nonadministrative expenses; and for the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on appropriations including those for travel expenses which shall be limited to budget estimates without express authorization to the contrary.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1214 (95th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1978
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 12433 (Housing and Community Development).
Bill· HRH.R. 12893 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1978
State Community Conservation and Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to contract to make and to make grants to States to assist in the implementation and execution of State community conservation and development strategies approved in accordance with the procedures of this Act. Stipulates that grants made pursuant to this Act shall serve as an incentive to States to implement and execute such strategies, and shall not be used by States to reduce existing levels of State assistance to distressed or declining communities. States that an application for a grant under this Act shall: (1) set forth a comprehensive State community conservation and development strategy; and (2) describe the process used for involving the legislature, the State's communities, and organizations of elected officials in the development of such strategy, and include other specified information. Directs the Secretary to establish the criteria to be used in the evaluation of and the awarding of grants for State community conservation and development strategies. Requires that communities be afforded an opportunity to object to any proposed plans before approval is granted by the Secretary.
Bill· HRH.R. 12861 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Urban Recreation Act - Establishes an urban park and recreation recovery program to provide financial assistance for the rehabilitation and development of recreation areas and facilities to local governments in urban and insular areas. Authorizes rehabilitation grants directly to eligible general purpose local governments for 50 percent of the cost of the development of such areas and facilities. Sets forth criteria for eligibility for such grants, and establishes priority criteria for project selection. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1979-1983 for the grants authorized by this Act. Terminates the authority for new appropriations under this Act on September 30, 1983.
Bill· HRH.R. 12858 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Neighborhood Self-Help Development Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants and to provide other forms of assistance to neighborhood organizations for planning and carrying out housing, economic, and community development, and for neighborhood conservation and revitalization projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 12859 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Livable Cities Act - States the purpose of this Act to be to further the efforts of urban communities and organizations to revitalize such communities both commercially and culturally. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, to make grants to, or contract with nonprofit organizations for programs under this Act. Directs the Secretary and the Chairman to develop criteria for selecting programs to be assisted under this Act. Provides program guidelines and eligibility requirements for assistance under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for such programs for fiscal years 1979 and 1980.
Bill· HRH.R. 12846 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a ten percent investment tax credit for the construction of enclosures or structures used exclusively for the housing, raising, or feeding of poultry or their produce.
Law· SS. 3119 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Directs the Mayor of the District of Columbia, consistent with an urban renewal plan approved by the Council of the District of Columbia, to transfer all title and interest of the United States to and in specified property in Southwest Washington, D.C. to the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency. Authorizes the Agency, in accordance with the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, to lease or sell all or part of the transferred parcel.
Bill· HRH.R. 12749 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1978
Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to exempt from the Congressional approval requirement: (1) the expenditure of funds derived from the sale of any revenue bond, note, or other obligation issued solely to finance, or assist in the financing of, the activities of any housing finance authority established by the City Council; or (2) the payment of principal, interest, or both on any such bond, note, or other obligation.
Bill· HRH.R. 12751 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1978
Urban Grant University Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for, and establish a program of grants to, urban universities for (1) development of urban-oriented educational, research, or service programs; and (2) assistance in carrying out such programs. Establishes a five year comprehensive grant to a university qualifying as an "urban grant university" and establishes criteria for such designation. Creates an Urban University Advisory Council to (1) review, along with the Commissioner of Education, "urban grant university " applications; (2) advise the Commissioner; and (3) make recommendations to the President and to the Congress.
Law· SS. 3084 (95th)open
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1978
Housing and Community Development Amendments - Title I: Community and Neighborhood Development and Conservation - Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to extend the rehabilitation loan program through fiscal year 1980. Places additional conditions on multifamily property loans assisted under such Act. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend the Urban Homesteading program through fiscal year 1979. Changes the requirements for application and eligibility for assistance under the Community Development Block Grant program. Title II: Housing Assistance Programs - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize funds to be appropriated for annual contributions for low-income housing projects through fiscal year 1979. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make assistance payments for the upgrading of low-income housing so as to make and keep such housing decent, safe, and sanitary without substantial rehabilitation. Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to set aside a specified amount of the funds appropriated for housing for the handicapped to be made available for loans for the development of rental housing and related facilities specifically designed to meet the needs of handicapped (primarily non-elderly). Public Housing Security Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement a demonstration program to provide increased security for public housing projects. Directs the Secretary to survey and report to Congress on crime in public housing projects. Authorizes the Secretary to make rental assistance payments with respect to real property on which is located a mobile home owned by a lower income family and used by such family as its principal residence. Provides supplementary rental assistance for very low-income families. Directs the Secretary to adopt measures which encourage tenant participation in multifamily housing projects. Makes other provisions for management and preservation of HUD-owned multifamily projects. Title III: Program Extensions - Amends the National Housing Act to extend specified Federal Housing Administration insurance programs including the following: (1) housing renovation and modernization; (2) general insurance authorization; (3) housing for moderate income and displaced families; (4) membership in cooperative associations for lower income families; (5) rental housing for low-income families; (6) coinsurance of mortgages; (7) experimental housing; (8) armed services housing; (9) group practice facilities and medical practice facilities; (10) new communities; and (11) crime and riot reinsurance. Permits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure, on a permanent basis, mortgages and loans with provisions for varying rates of amortization through fiscal year 1979. Extends the Emergency Home Purchase Assistance program through fiscal year 1979. Amends the Housing Act of 1954 to authorize appropriations for comprehensive planning for urban and rural development through fiscal year 1979. Calls for triennial, instead of biennial, review of the comprehensive plans developed by recipients of assistance under such Act. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to extend research authorizations through fiscal year 1979. Authorizes the Secretary of such Department to conduct demonstrations to determine the feasibility of expanding home ownership opportunities in urban areas including encouraging the conversion of multifamily housing properties to cooperative or condominium ownership by individuals and families. Amends the National Flood Insurance Act to extend the National Flood Insurance program and flood insurance through fiscal year 1980. Amends the National Housing Act to increase the authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 1979 for losses sustained by the General Insurance fund. Amends the National Housing Act to increase: (1) the total amount of purchase authority of the Government National Mortgage Association; and (2) the limits on the amounts of principal obligations of various classes of mortgages which such Association may purchase. Title IV: Congregate Services - Congregate Housing Services Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to enter into contracts with public housing agencies for the establishment of congregate housing projects which are supplemented by supportive services for handicapped and temporarily disabled households. Requires assisted public housing authorities to maintain any financial effort they are making in furtherance of congregate services prior to contract authority approval, unless the Secretary waives such requirement. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to permit the provision of congregate services in existing public housing. Makes provisions for the administration of services and requires assisted public housing agencies to employ elderly and physically disabled residents to the maximum extent practicable. Sets forth application procedures, requirements for eligibility for services, and rules for the setting of fees for congregate services. Directs assisted public housing agencies to review this program with eligible residents and with the professional assessment committee within the 12-month period prior to the submission of an application for renewed funding. Title V: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend the following housing programs until September 30, 1979: (1) low-income repair loans and grants; (2) low rent housing for domestic farm labor; (3) rural rental housing loans; (4) rural housing loans; and (5) mutual self-help housing loans and grants. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of housing which is available to migrant farmworkers. Requires that adequate written notification of the reasons for which assistance was denied be given to anyone who has applied for and been denied rural housing assistance. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide additional assistance to persons receiving aid for rural housing under the interest credit program who are unable to afford a dwelling. Prescribes the formula for determining the amount of such additional assistance. Provides for the recapture of all or a portion of the assistance rendered upon the disposition or nonoccupancy of the property by the borrower. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to study the following: (1) the effect of remote encumbrances or claims on persons in rural areas obtaining title insurance; and (2) the implementation of an emergency potable water and sewage program. Title VI: Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation - Neighborhood Reinvestment CorporationAct - Establishes the National Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Opens all meetings of the Board to public observation unless a Board majority votes to close a specific meeting. Empowers the Corporation to continue the work of the Urban Reinvestment Task Force in establishing neighborhood housing services programs, in providing grants and technical assistance to selected neighborhood preservation projects, and in supporting Neighborhood Housing Services of America. Requires the Corporation, in making grants, to determine reporting and management restrictions or requirements on recipients and to assure that recipients make information necessary to determine compliance with Federal laws available to the Corporation. Authorizes specified Federal departments and Federal banks to provide services to the Corporation with or without reimbursement. Directs the Corporation to publish an annual report to the President and the Congress. Requires an annual audit of the Corporation. Requires the Corporation to prepare annual business-type budgets for submission to the Office of Management and Budget. Requires inclusion of such budget as part of the President's annual budget to Congress. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Amends the National Housing Act to increase the maximum mortgage amounts for multifamily units of the Federal Housing Administration. Authorizes the Secretary to bid on specified properties which are not insured under the National Housing Act at foreclosure sales. Amends the National Housing Act to extend mortgage insurance to nonresident care facilities. Changes the eligibility requirements for condominium mortgage insurance under the National Housing Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure loans for the acquisition of fee simple title to residential property from lessors beyond limits established by the National Housing Act, if such property is located in Hawaii. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to authorize the establishment of more than one day care facility for the children of employees of such Department. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969 to remove certain restrictions on the purchase or lease of surplus real property for use in providing housing for low- and moderate-income families and individuals. States the policy of Congress that in the administration of Federal housing and community development programs, the utmost care should be taken to minimize the displacement of persons from their homes and neighborhoods. Directs the Secretary to develop guidelines for rehabilitation of property. Amends the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act to expand the authority of such Corporation. Revises certain disclosure requirements applicable to the sale of real estate under the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 12720 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1978
Public Housing Security Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to implement a demonstration program to provide increased security for public housing projects. Directs the Secretary to survey and report to Congress on crime in public housing projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 12711 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1978
Individual Housing Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals an income tax deduction of up to $2,500 annually and $10,000 in a lifetime for contributions to an individual housing account. Makes such accounts tax exempt and allows distributions from such an account to be tax free if such distributions are used exclusively for the purchase of a principal residence for the distributee.
Bill· HRH.R. 12681 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
Permits the provision of low-income housing assistance under the Housing Act of 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, without regard to criteria which restrict new construction of housing in areas where 30 percent or more of the population is nonwhite.
Bill· SS. 3053 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
Housing Opportunity Act - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to direct the Federal National Mortgage Association to make, and to contract to make, mortgage credit assistance payments to lenders who agree to make mortgage loans to eligible middle-income families purchasing new and rehabilitated homes. Lists qualifications for mortgage credit assistance payments.
Bill· HRH.R. 12617 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1978
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to direct the President to give preference, in the issuance of housing project guaranties, to foreign projects utilizing solar energy technology. Directs that such preference also be given to projects using other specified renewable energy technologies.
Bill· HRH.R. 12570 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1978
Revises the definition of "income" for purposes of determining eligibility for low-income housing under the Housing Act of 1937.
Bill· HRH.R. 12580 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1978
American Dream Act - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 to authorize Federal savings and loan associations to make and invest in graduated payment mortgages and reverse annuity mortgages. Directs the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to consider consumer safeguards in adopting regulations allowing the making of and investment in such mortgages.
Bill· HRH.R. 12576 (95th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1978
Authorizes the advance payment of station housing allowances for members of the uniformed services assigned overseas.