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 112 STAT. 2520 PUBLIC LAW 105-276—OCT. 21, 1998 Sec. 556. Renewals. Sec. 557. Manufactured housing demonstration program. Sec. 558. Authorizations of appropriations. Sec. 559. Rulemaking and implementation. Subtitle D—Home Rule Flexible Grant Demonstration , Sec. 561. Home rule flexible grant demonstration program. Subtitle E—Accountability and Oversight of Public Housing Agencies Sec. 563. Study of alternative methods for evaluating public housing agencies. Sec. 564. Public housing management assessment program. Sec. 565. Expansion of powers for dealing with public housing agencies in substantial default. Sec. 566. Audits. Sec. 567. Advisory council for housing authority of New Orleans. Sec. 568. Treatment of troubled PHA^s. Subtitle F—Safety and Security in Public and Assisted Housing Sec. 575. Provisions applicable only to public housing and section 8 assistance. Sec. 576. Screening oi applicants for federally assisted housing. Sec. 577. Termination of tenancy and assistance for illegal drug users and alcohol abusers in federally assisted housing. Sec. 578. Ineligibility of dangerous sex offenders for admission to public housing. Sec. 579. Definitions. Subtitle G—Repeals and Related Provisions Sec. 581. Annual report. Sec. 582. Repeals relating to public housing and section 8 programs. Sec. 583. Public housing flexibility in CHAS. Sec. 584. Use of American products. Sec. 585. GAO study on housing assistance program costs. Sec. 586. Amendments to Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990. Sec. 587. Review of drug elimination program contracts. Sec. 588. Prohibition on use of assistance for employment relocation activities. Sec. 589. Treatment of occupancy standards. Sec. 590. Income eligibility for HOME and CDBG programs. Sec. 591. Report on single family and multifamily homes. Sec. 592. Use of assisted housing by aliens. Sec. 593. Protection of senior homeowners under reverse mortgage program. Sec. 594. Housing counseling. Sec. 595. Native American housing assistance. Sec. 596. CDBG public services cap. Sec. 597. Moderate rehabilitation program. Sec. 598. National cities in schools program. Sec. 599. Tenant participation in multifamily housing projects. Sec. 599A. Clarification regarding recreational vehicles. Sec. 599B. Determination of low-income eligibility for homeownership assistance. Sec. 599C. Amendments to rural housing programs. Sec. 599D. Reauthorization of national flood insurance program. Sec. 599E. Assistance for self-help housing providers Sec. 599F. Special mortgage insvu*ance assistance. Sec. 599G. Rehabilitation demonstration grant program. Sec. 599H. Assistance for certain localities. 42 USC 1437 SEC. 502. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. "** • (a) FINDINGS. —Congress finds that— (1) there exists throughout the Nation a need for decent, safe, and affordable housing; (2) the inventory of public housing units owned, assisted, or operated by public housing agencies, an asset in which the Federal Government has invested over $90,000,000,000, has traditionally provided rental housing that is affordable to low-income persons; (3) despite serving this critical function, the public housing system is plagued by a series of problems, including the concentration of very poor people in very poor neighborhoods and disincentives for economic self-sufficiency;

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