Housing Act of 1949 DEMOLITION the income of the individual or family exceeds Demolition Sec. 116.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Secretary is authorized (b) No grant shall be made under this section 1 Sec. 116 was added by sec. 311(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 477. 2Sec. 510(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved August 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 524, inserted "a harborage or potential harborage of rats". Housing Act of 1949 CODE ENFORCEMENT GRANTS neighborhood basis and will further the over-all Sec. 117. 2 Code Enforcement Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts to make, and to make, grants as provided in this section (payable from any grant funds provided under section 103(b)) to cities, other municipalities, and counties for the purpose of assisting such localities in carrying out programs of concentrated code enforcement in deteriorated or deteriorating areas in which such enforcement, together with those public improvements to be provided by the locality, may be expected to arrest the decline of the area. Such grants shall not exceed two-thirds (or three-fourths in the case of any city, other municipality, or county having a population of 50,000 or less according to the most recent decennial census) of the cost of planning and carrying out such programs which may include the provision and repair of necessary streets, curbs, sidewalks, street lighting, tree planting, and similar improvements within such areas. The Secretary shall not make any grant under this 1The balance of clause (2) was inserted by sec. 510(b), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved August 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 524. 2 Sec. 117 was added by sec. 311(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 477. Housing Act of 1949 INTERIM section unless he has obtained adequate INTERIM ASSISTANCE FOR BLIGHTED AREAS 2 1 Sec. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts (in an aggregate amount not to exceed $15,000,000 in any fiscal year) to make, and to make, grants as provided in this section (payable from any grant funds provided under section 103(b)) to cities, other municipalities, and counties for the purpose of assisting such localities in carrying out programs to alleviate harmful conditions in slum and blighted areas which are planned for substantial clearance, rehabilitation, or federally assisted code enforcement in the near future but in which some immediate public action is needed until clearance, rehabilitation, or code enforcement activities can be undertaken. Such grants shall not exceed two-thirds (or threefourths in the case of any city, other municipality, This proviso was added by sec. 515, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved August 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 525. 2Sec. 118 was added by sec. 514, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved August 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 525. Housing Act of 1949 or county having a population of fifty thousand PART B-NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS1 2 PURPOSE AND AUTHORITY Sec. 131. (a) To facilitate more rapid renewal and development of urban areas on an effective scale, and to encourage more efficient and flexible utilization of public and private development opportunities by local communities in such areas, the This heading was inserted by sec. 501 (b), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved August 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 518. 2 sec Sec. 131 was added by sec. 501, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved August 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 518. Housing Act of 1949 Secretary is authorized to make financial (b) A neighborhood development program shall consist of urban renewal project undertakings and activities in one or more urban renewal areas which are planned and carried out on the basis of annual increments in accordance with the provisions of this title for planning and carrying out urban renewal projects, except as modified by the provisions of this part. (c) No application for financial assistance in planning and carrying out a neighborhood development program shall be approved by the Secretary unless- (1) the governing body of the locality has, (2) the Secretary has concluded that there FINANCIAL PROVISIONS Sec. 132.1(a) Upon the approval of a neighborhood development program by the Secretary, the cost of any undertakings and activities authorized as part of the program shall be financed in accordance with the loan, capital grant, and project cost provisions of part A, except that- (1) net project cost may be calculated on the Sec. 132 was added by sec 501, Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, approved August 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 476, 518. 1 |