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The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (12 U.S.C. 1706e) is a United States federal law that, among other provisions, amended the Housing Act of 1937 to create Section 8 housing, [1] authorizes "Entitlement Communities Grants" to be awarded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and created the National Institute of Building Sciences. [2]
The National Health Planning and Resources Development Act, or Public Law 93-641 is a piece of 1974 American Congressional legislation. Many Certificate of Need programs trace their origin to the act which offered incentives for states to implement these programs.
The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." [1] It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local ...
In the 1970s, when studies showed that the worst housing problem afflicting low-income people was no longer substandard housing, but the high percentage of income spent on housing, Congress passed the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, further amending the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 to create the Section 8 Program. In the Section 8 ...
Another predecessor of the definition was the 1979 Healthy People report of the Surgeon General of the United States, [10] which noted that health promotion "seeks the development of community and individual measures which can help... [people] to develop lifestyles that can maintain and enhance the state of well-being".
Economic development has existed even at a basic level since the earliest recorded communities. However, in the US and several other countries, the concept of community economic development emerged "in response to tenacious poverty and the need for affordable housing, good jobs, affordable health care and quality of life matters needed for human existence."
“Healthy” is a loaded, confusing term when used to describe foods, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to put an end to that. The organization recently redefined the term as ...
Healthy community design is planning and designing communities that make it easier for people to live healthy lives. [1] Healthy community design offers important benefits: [ citation needed ] Decreases dependence on the automobile by building homes, businesses, schools, churches and parks closer to each other so that people can more easily ...