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PUBLIC LAW 1020-AUG. 7, 1956

[70 S T A T.

HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY

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42 USC 1410.

63 Stat. 423.

63 Stat. 422.

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SEC. 404. (a) Paragraph (2) of section 2 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "The term 'families' means families consisting of two or more persons, a single person sixty-five years of age or over, or the remaining member of a tenant family. The term 'elderly families' means families the head of which (or his spouse) is sixty-five years of age or over." (b) Section 10 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (m) For the purpose of increasing the supply of low-rent housing for elderly families, the Authority may assist the construction of new housing or the remodeling of existing housing in order to provide accommodations designed specifically for such families. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 10(g), any public housing agency, in respect to dw^elling units suitable to the needs of elderly families, may extend a prior preference to such families and may waive the provisions of clause (ii) of section 15(8)(b) with respect to such units: Provided, That, as among such families, the 'First' preference in subsection 10(g) shall apply." (c) Section 15(5) of such Act is amended by inserting after the M'ord "Alaska" the following: "or $2,250 in the case of accommodations designed specifically for elderly families". FARM-LABOR CAMPS

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SEC. 405. Section 12(f) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the filing of a request therefor within eighteen months after the date of the enactment of this sentence, the Authority shall relinquish, transfer, and convey, without monetary consideration, all of its rights, title, and interest in and with respect to any such project or any part thereof (including such land as is determined by the Authority to be reasonably necessary to the operation of such project, and including contractual rights to revenues, reserves, and other proceeds therefrom), (1) in the case of any State other than Florida, to any public housing agency whose area of operation includes the project, upon a finding and certification by the public housing agency (which shall be conclusive upon the Authority) that the project is needed to house persons and families of low income and that preference for occupancy in the project will be given first to low-income agricultural workers and their families and second to other low-income persons and their families; and (2) in the case of Florida, to any public housing agency in the State whenever, under the laws of the State, such agency (A) is authorized to acquire and operate such project, (B) is required to give preference for occupancy in such project, first, to low-income agricultural workers and their families, and second, to other low-income persons and their families, (C) is required, in the event of the disposition of such project by sale or otherwise, to use the proceeds thereof and any available accumulated earnings to construct facilities (which shall be subject to the same preferences as those specified in clause (B)) for occupancy by low-income agricultural workers and their families in the same area, and (D) is required, so long as it continues to own or operate such project, to have on its managing board one or more members whose principal occupation is farming. Upon the relinquishment and transfer of any such project it shall cease to be a low-rent project within the meaning of this Act, and the Authority shall have no further jurisdiction over it, except

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