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175 records in 1979
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow the income tax deduction for depreciation to a landlord who has been convicted of violating a housing code.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit to taxpayers who maintain a household in which individuals age 61 or older reside as their principal place of residence. Limits the credits to $250 multiplied by the number of aged individuals residing in the household.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Prohibits the consideration of any cost of living or general benefit increase of Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits after May 1979 for purposes of determining the eligibility for or amount of assistance which any individual or family is provided under the United States Housing Act of 1937, the National Housing Act, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, or the Housing Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Requests the President to declare June 3 through 9, 1979, as "National Neighborhood Week."
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
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 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 those 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.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to give special emphasis to insuring mortgages covering medical practice facilities which are primarily for the purpose of providing preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services to elderly outpatients. Directs the Secretary to insure mortgages made in connection with senior centers offering health, nutritional, recreational, and social facilities to elderly persons, regardless of whether such centers offer housing facilities. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to entitle a grant recipient to an additional grant if such recipient plans to use such additional grant for the construction or maintenance of a senior center providing recreational, health, and nutritional services.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
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.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
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.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act 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.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
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.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Individual Housing Account 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 cash contributions to an individual housing account (IHA) established to finance the purchase of a principal residence for the taxpayer. Exempts IHA's from income taxation. Excludes from gross income distributions to a taxpayer from an individual housing account used to purchase a principal residence.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Economic Disaster Community Assistance Act - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 by adding title VI: Emergency Economic Disaster Community Relief. Establishes within the Department of Commerce an Office of Aid to Economic Disaster Communities, to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the President to designate as an economic disaster community, any area without regard to political or geographic boundaries where: (1) the average unemployment rate for at least three consecutive months is 150 percent of the average national unemployment rate for the preceding calendar year; (2) the current unemployment rate exceeds the national unemployment rate for the prior month and has increased by at least 100 percent within the past 12 months; or (3) the current unemployment rate is at least six percent and there are such other critical economic conditions as the President determines to warrant assistance under this Act. Directs the appointment of Federal and State coordinating officers for areas designated economic disaster communities. Authorizes all Federal agencies to assist such areas by making available real property, personnel, equipment, and other resources. Authorizes the President, with the concurrence of the Director of the Office, to direct any Federal agency charged with the administration of a Federal grant-in-aid program to modify conditions for assistance in order to facilitate the delivery of aid to economic disaster communities. Establishes a separate Federal Economic Recovery Fund within the Treasury. Directs the heads of Federal agencies and the Director of the Office to select existing Federal grant-in-aid and loan and loan guarantee programs to be assisted by the fund. Authorizes the allocation of fund monies for certain other purposes, including: (1) loans to individuals and businesses to enable them to meet mortgage payments; (2) unrestricted grants to States and local governments to implement local initiatives and projects designed to relieve unemployment and stimulate the economy but which are not eligible for existing grants; (3) grants to accelerate Federal, State, or local projects; (4) relocation assistance for unemployed individuals and their families; (5) unemployment assistance; (6) housing assistance; (7) grants to States and local governments to enable them to pay the State share of other Federal grant-in-aid programs; and (8) grants or loans to nonprofit organizations and loan guarantees to private profitmaking organizations for job creation and holding major employers in the area. Directs that areas designated as economic disaster communities shall remain eligible for assistance under this Act for at least one year after which time benefits will be phased out if the area no longer meets eligibility criteria.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
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.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
National Condominium Act of 1975 - Provides for the designation of an Assistant Secretary for Condominiums under the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to assist in the planning, development, construction, or operation of condominiums or the purchase of condominium units. Establishes minimum national standards for all condominium units the sale of which is financed with Federal assistance in any form, and encourages the States through a new program of Federal grants to establish such standards to protect both the residents of previously leased units to be converted and the potential purchasers of such units from undue hardships and unexpected economic expenses. States that any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this Act shall be fined not less than $15,000 and be imprisoned for not less than two years.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
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.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Individual Housing Act of 1979 - 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 cash contributions to an individual housing account (IHA) established to finance the purchase of a principal residence for the taxpayer. Exempts IHA's from income taxation. Excludes from gross income distributions to a taxpayer from an individual housing account used to purchase a principal residence.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Authorizes advance payments of station housing allowances for members of the uniformed services assigned to duty outside of the continental United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Appalachian development highway system through fiscal year 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from approving any application for rental increases in federally assisted housing unless the amount of such increase is permitted under State and local law.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
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 attorney's fees. Provides that any mortgagee who fails to comply with such stated requirements shall no longer be eligible for Federal assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits the consideration of any cost of living or general benefit increase of Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits after May, 1977 for purposes of determining the eligibility for or amount of assistance which any individual or family is provided under the United States Housing Act of 1937, the National Housing Act, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, or the Housing Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to give special emphasis to insuring mortgages covering medical practice facilities which are primarily for the purpose of providing preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services to elderly outpatients. Directs the Secretary to insure mortgages made in connection with senior centers offering health, nutritional, recreational, and social facilities to elderly persons, regardless of whether such centers offer housing facilities. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to entitle a grant recipient to an additional grant if such recipient plans to use such additional grant for the construction or maintenance of a senior center providing recreational, health, and nutritional services.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Community Restoration Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to local governments for the purpose of funding qualified nonprofit neighborhood organizations engaged in activities designed to improve housing and prevent neighborhood deterioration. Limits to $50,000 any grant made by a unit of general local government to any organization in any fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to oversee the auditing and accounting of all moneys received and spent by units of local government and community organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide a supplementary housing allowance to eligible individuals under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act whose annual housing expenses consisting of rent, mortgage payments, real estate taxes, and gas, electric, home and water heating charges exceed 33 1/3 percent of an individual's annual income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
American Dream Act - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 to authorize the Home Loan Bank Board to permit Federal savings and loan associations to offer graduated payment and reverse-annuity mortgages. Requires provisions in any reverse-annuity mortgage to protect the mortgagor from loss of the property involved in the event funds available under such annuity are depleted. Directs each savings and loan association to offer a fixed-rate mortgage along with the offer to extend a graduated-payment or reserve-annuity mortgage and to make a comparison of the terms of such instruments. Stipulates that any graduated-payment mortgage must provide the mortgagor with an option to convert such mortgage to a fixed-rate mortgage. Prohibits any annual increase in the payment due under a graduated-payment mortgage from exceeding seven-and-one-half percent of the total payment during the preceding year. Prohibits any savings and loan association from investing in any variable-rate or rollover mortgage after January 1, 1979. Grants any individual who received such a mortgage after such date the option to convert it to a fixed-rate mortgage bearing interest at the rate available when the alternative instrument was received or at the prevailing rate on the date of enactment, whichever is lower. Exempts any director from criminal penalties for violation of an order from the Board with respect to variable rate or rollover mortgages between January 1, 1979, and the date of enactment of this Act.