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PUBLIC LAW 8 9 - 1 1 7 - A U G U S T 10, 1965

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101(c) of the Housing Act of 1949, shall not apply to low-rent housing in private accommodations provided under this section." (b) The last sentence of section 2(1) of such Act is amended by striking out "Income limits for occupancy and rents" and inserting in lieu thereof "Except as otherwise provided in section 23, income limits for occupancy and rents". PARITY o r TREATMENT

FOR THE H A N D I C A P P E D

A N D ELDERLY I N

^"'*' P- ^^S. 73 Stat. 680. 42 USC 1402.

PUBLIC

HOUSING

SEC. 104. Section 2(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is ^s Stat. 794. amended to read as follows: "(2) The term 'families of low income' means families (including elderly and displaced families) who are in the lowest income group and who cannot afford to pay enough to cause private enterprise in their locality or metropolitan area to build an adequate supply of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for their use. The term 'families' includes families consisting of a single person in the case of elderly families and displaced families, and includes the remaining member of a tenant family. The term 'elderly families' means families whose heads (or their spouses), or whose sole members, have attained the age at which an individual may elect to receive an old-age benefit under title II of the Social Security Act, or are under a disability as defined in 7o'*stat^*8it^^' section 223 of that Act, or are handicapped within the meaning of sec- 42 USC 401tion 202 of the Housing Act of 1959. The term 'displaced families' "^^s. means families displaced by urban renewal or other governmental action, or families whose present or former dwellings are situated in areas determined by the Small Business Administration, subsequent to April 1, 1965, to have been affected by a natural disaster, and which have been extensively damaged or destroyed as the result of such disaster." DIRECT LOANS TO PROVIDE H O U S I N G

FOR THE ELDERLY OR

HANDICAPPED

SEC. 105. (a) Section 202(a)(4) of the Housing Act of 1959 is amended by striking out "$350,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$500,000,000". (b) Effective with respect to loans made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, section 202(a)(3) of such Act is amended by striking out "the higher of (A) 2 % per centum per annum, or" and inserting in lieu thereof "the lower of (A) 3 per centum per annum, or".

78 Stat. 783. ^^ "^^ ^'° ^3 Stat. 667.

R E H A B I L I T A T I O N G P ^ N T S TO H O M E O W N E R S I N U R B A N R E N E W A L AREAS

SEC. 106. (a) Title I of the Housing Act of 1949 is amended by ^ ^^^- ^^^^^ adding at the end thereof the following new section: i465. " R E H A B I L I T A T I O N GRANTS

"SEC. 115. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Administrator may authorize a local public agency to make grants (and the urban renewal project may include the making of such grants) as prescribed in this section. Any such grant may be made only to an individual or family, as described in subsection (b), who owns and occupies a structure in an urban renewal area, and only for the purpose of covering the cost of repairs and improvements necessary to make such structure conform to public standards for decent, safe, and sanitary housing as required by applicable codes or other requirements of the urban renewal plan for the area. Any contract for financial assistance under this title shall provide that the capital grant 49-850 0-66—32

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