12 U.S.C. § 1701z — New technologies in the development of housing for lower income families
submitted 58 years ago by Pub. L. 90-448 to r/title-12-BANKS-AND-BANKING · 627 words · no verdicts yet
This section creates a program for testing new housing technologies for lower-income families. It sets limits and evaluation requirements for approved plans, allows suitable excess Federal land to be transferred, and requires a report.
(a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the “Secretary”) must create a program to encourage new housing technologies for decent, safe, and sanitary housing for lower-income families. The program must encourage large-scale experiments, allow comparisons with existing technologies, and evaluate how local housing codes and zoning rules affect large-scale use of new technologies. Qualified public and private organizations may submit plans to develop this housing with new and advanced technologies on Federal land the Secretary makes available, or on other land where local rules allow experimental housing or State* or local law allows exceptions from building rules to test and develop new technologies.
(b) The Secretary shall approve no more than five plans submitted under subsection (a) that the Secretary finds most promising in advancing this section’s purposes. The Secretary must consider: (1) whether the technology could produce lower-income housing on a large scale at moderate cost; (2) the plan’s expected environmental quality; (3) whether the technology could be mass-produced; and (4) the submitting organization’s financial soundness and its ability, alone or with others, to produce at least 1,000 dwelling units each year using the proposed technology.
(c) When approving mortgage-insurance projects under section 1715x(a)(2), the Secretary must seek at least 1,000 dwelling units each year for five years for each different type of technology in approved plans. The Secretary must evaluate every assisted project to determine its detailed cost per unit, the environmental quality achieved in each unit, and how local housing codes and zoning rules affect or would affect the cost per unit.
(d) Despite the cited property laws, excess land covered by those laws that the Secretary determines would advance this section may be transferred to the Secretary when requested.
(e) As soon as practicable, the Secretary must report findings about assisted projects, including the subsection (c) evaluations, and recommendations for legislation the Secretary considers necessary or desirable to expand decent, safe, and sanitary lower-income housing through technologies shown to work under this section.
In order to encourage the use of new housing technologies in providing decent, safe, and sanitary housing for lower income families; to encourage large-scale experimentation in the use of such technologies; to provide a basis for comparison of such technologies with existing housing technologies in providing such housing; and to evaluate the effect of local housing codes and zoning regulations on the large-scale use of new housing technologies in the provision of such housing, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the “Secretary”) shall institute a program under which qualified organizations, public and private, will submit plans for the development of housing for lower income families, using new and advanced technologies, on Federal land which has been made available by the Secretary for the purposes of this section, or on other land where (1) local building regulations permit the construction of experimental housing, or (2) State* or local law permits variances from building regulations in the construction of experimental housing for the purpose of testing and developing new building technologies.
The Secretary shall approve not more than five plans utilizing new housing technologies which are submitted to him pursuant to the program referred to in subsection (a) and which he determines are most promising in furtherance of the purposes of this section. In making such determination the Secretary shall consider—
the potential of the technology employed for producing housing for lower income families on a large scale at a moderate cost;
the extent to which the plan envisages environmental quality;
the possibility of mass production of the technology; and
the financial soundness of the organization submitting the plan, and the ability of such organization, alone or in combination with other organizations, to produce at least one thousand dwelling units a year utilizing the technology proposed.
In approving projects for mortgage insurance under section 1715x(a)(2) of this title, the Secretary shall seek to achieve the construction of at least one thousand dwelling units a year over a five-year period for each of the various types of technologies proposed in approved plans under subsection (b). The Secretary shall evaluate each project with respect to which assistance is extended pursuant to this section with a view to determining (1) the detailed cost breakdown per dwelling unit, (2) the environmental quality achieved in each unit, and (3) the effect which local housing codes and zoning regulations have, or would have if applicable, on the cost per dwelling unit.
Notwithstanding the provisions of chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41, any land which is excess property within the meaning of chapters 1 to 11 of title 40 and division C (except sections 3302, 3307(e), 3501(b), 3509, 3906, 4710, and 4711) of subtitle I of title 41 and which is determined by the Secretary to be suitable in furtherance of the purposes of this section may be transferred to the Secretary upon his request.
The Secretary shall, at the earliest practicable date, report his findings with respect to projects assisted pursuant to this section (including evaluations of each such project in accordance with subsection (c)), together with such recommendations for additional legislation as he determines to be necessary or desirable to expand the available supply of decent, safe, and sanitary housing for lower income families through the use of technologies the efficacy of which has been demonstrated under this section.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 90–448, title I, § 108(a)–(e), Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 495, 496.)
- 1968Enacted · Pub. L. 90-448 · 82 Stat. 495, 496
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