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 79 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 89-174-SEPT. 9, 1965

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Public Law 89-174 AN ACT September 9, 1965 To establish a Department of Housing and Urban Development, and for other [H. R. 6927] purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate arid House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may H<^^s^n'^*'^nd\jrban be cited as the ''Department of Housing and I'rban Development Deveiopm."nt AC^" Act". DE!CX.\.R.VTION o r PURPOSE

SEC. 2. The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare and security of the Nation and the health and living standards of our people require, as a matter of national purpose, sound development of the Nation's communities and metropolitan areas in which the vast majority of its people live and work. To carry out such purpose, and in recognition of the increasing importance of housing and urban development in our national life, the Congress finds that establishment of an executive department is desirable to achieve the best administration of the principal programs of the Federal Government which provide assistance for housing and for the development of the Nation's communities; to assist the President in achieving maximum coordination of the various Federal activities which have a major effect upon urban community, suburban, or metropolitan development; to encourage the solution of problems of housing, urban development, and mass transportation through State, county, town, village, or other local and private action, including promotion of interstate, regional, and metropolitan cooperation; to encourage the maximum contributions that may be made by vigorous private homebuilding and mortgage lending industries to housing, urban development, and the national economy; and to provide for full and appropriate consideration, at the national level, of the needs and interests of the Nation's communities and of the people who live and work in them. ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT

SEC. 3. (a) There is hereby established at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referred to as the "Department"'). There shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (hereinafter referied to as the "Secretary"), who shall be appointed by the President by and wnth the advice and consent of the Senate. The Department shall be administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary. The Secretary shall receive compensation at the i*ate now or hereafter prescribed by law for the heads of executive departments. (b) The Secretary shall, among his responsibilities, advise the President with respect to Federal programs and activities relating to housing and urban development; develop and recommend to the President policies for fostering the orderly growth and development of the Nation's urban areas; exercise leadership at the direction of the President in coordinating Federal activities affecting housing and urban de>elopmeiit; pro^-ide technical assistance and information, including a clearinghouse service to aid State, county, town, village, or other local governments in developing solutions to community and metropolitan development problems; consult and cooperate with State Governors and State agencies, including, when appropriate, holding informal public hearings, with respect to Federal and !^tate programs

Appointment of Secretary.

Duties.

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