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The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Pub. L. 90–448, 82 Stat. 476, enacted August 1, 1968, was passed during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration.The act came on the heels of major riots across cities throughout the U.S. in 1967, the assassination of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968, and the publication of the report of the Kerner Commission, which ...
It was not until 1968, however, in response to a perceived need to further broaden the capital base available for mortgages, that the housing finance system began to resemble its current form. As part of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Congress partitioned Fannie Mae into two entities:
The idea of a department of Urban Affairs was proposed in a 1957 report to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, led by New York governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. [3] The idea of a department of Housing and Urban Affairs was taken up by President John F. Kennedy, with Pennsylvania Senator and Kennedy ally Joseph S. Clark Jr. listing it as one of the top seven legislative priorities for the ...
The Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (Pub. L. 89–117, 79 Stat. 451) is a major revision to federal housing policy in the United States which instituted several major expansions in federal housing programs. The United States Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the legislation on August 10, 1965. [1]
Rumford Fair Housing Act: 1963: Discrimination CA: Preceded Fair Housing Act, but repealed. Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965: 1965 [definition needed] Federal [definition needed] Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968: 1968: Mortgages Federal: Established Ginnie Mae to expand availability of mortgage funds for moderate income ...
In response to many of the emerging concerns regarding new public housing developments, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 attempt to shift the style of housing developments, looking to the Garden Cities model of Ebenezer Howard. The act prohibited the construction of high-rise developments for families with children.
The 1949 Act also required that targets of slum clearance (by then called "urban renewal") be given preference in public housing projects, further concentrating poverty. The federal government began to enmesh public housing with private development through a series of acts in 1959, 1961, 1965 , and 1968 , and 1970 .
Homeowners Refinancing Act; Housing Act of 1937; Housing Act of 1949; Housing Act of 1954; Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; Housing and Community Development Act of 1987; Housing and Community Development Act of 1992; Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008; Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965; Housing and Urban ...