{"data":{"id":"us/42-u.s.c.-12702","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"42 U.S.C. § 12702","heading":"Objective of national housing policy","body":"The objective of national housing policy shall be to reaffirm the long-established national commitment to decent, safe, and sanitary housing for every American by strengthening a nationwide partnership of public and private institutions able—(1) to ensure that every resident of the United States has access to decent shelter or assistance in avoiding homelessness; (2) to increase the Nation’s supply of decent housing that is affordable to low-income and moderate-income families and accessible to job opportunities; (3) to improve housing opportunities for all residents of the United States, particularly members of disadvantaged minorities, on a nondiscriminatory basis; (4) to help make neighborhoods safe and livable; (5) to expand opportunities for homeownership; (6) to provide every American community with a reliable, readily available supply of mortgage finance at the lowest possible interest rates; and (7) to encourage tenant empowerment and reduce generational poverty in federally assisted and public housing by improving the means by which self-sufficiency may be achieved.","path":["Title 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","CHAPTER 130—NATIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc42@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T06:00:34Z","sha256":"c6e966a631863985ac6116a83ad6114cb779d577baa7246a40ab02431b87b456","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/42-u.s.c.-12701","next":"us/42-u.s.c.-12703"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}