Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/1142

 93 STAT. 1110

PUBLIC LAW 96-153—DEC. 21, 1979

Code. Any such information received pursuant to this subsection shall remain confidential and shall be used only for the purpose of verifying incomes in order to determine eligibility of families for benefits (and the amount of such benefits, if any) under this section.". PRESERVATION OF LOW-INCOME CHARACTER OF ASSISTED HOUSING 42 USC 1437g.

Ante, p. 1105, 1109.

42 USC 1437f.

92 Stat. 2084.

12 USC

1715z-la.

SEC. 211. (a) Section 9(a) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended— (1) by inserting 'XD" after "(a)"; (2) by striking out "(D" and "(2)" in the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "(A)" and "(B)"; (3) by inserting the following before the period at the end of the third sentence: ", and such contract shall provide that no disposition of the low-income housing project, with respect to which the contract is entered into, shall occur during and for ten years after the period when contributions were made pursuant to such contract unless approved by the Secretary"; and (4) by adding the following new paragraph at the end thereof: "(2) The Secretary may not make assistance available under this section for any low-income housing project unless such project is being assisted by an annual contributions contract authorized by section 5(c) but not subject to section 8, except that after the duration of any such annual contributions contract with respect to a lowincome housing project, the Secretary may provide assistance under this section with respect to such project as long as the low-income nature of such project is maintained.". (b) The first sentence of section 8(e)(1) of such Act is amended by striking out "one month" and inserting in lieu thereof "two hundred and forty months". (c) Section 201(d)(1) of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 is amended by inserting the following before the semicolon at the end thereof: ", and the owner has agreed to maintain the low- and moderate-income character of such project for a period at least equal to the remaining term of the project mortgage". RENT STUDIES

42 USC 1437f note.

31 USC 11.

SEC. 212. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall conduct a study of the feasibility and financial desirability of requiring minimum rent payments from tenants in low-income housing assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937. The study shall examine (1) the extent to which tenants in such housing are not required to or do not pay rent, (2) the incentives for greater tenant care of such housing which minimum rents may create, (3) the administrative costs of assessing and collecting minimum rents, and (4) for each of the five fiscal years beginning on October 1, 1980, and ending September 30, 1984, the reductions in appropriations for the payment of annual contributions for assisted housing and for payments for the operation of low-income housing projects which several alternative specifications of minimum rent requirements would allow. The Secretary shall submit a report to the Congress containing the findings and conclusions of such study not later than ten days after the Budget for fiscal year 1981 is transmitted pursuant to section 201 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921. (b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall conduct a study to provide detailed comparisons between the rents paid by tenants occupying low-income housing assisted under the United

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