HOUSING ACT OF 1949

Domain	Definition
Agriculture	Title V of P.L. 81-171 (October 25, 1949) authorized USDA to make loans to farmers to construct, improve, repair, or replace dwellings and other farm buildings to provide decent, safe, and sanitary living conditions for themselves, their tenants, lessees, sharecroppers, and laborers. The USDA was authorized to make grants or combinations of loans and grants to farmers who could not qualify to repay the full amount of a loan, but who needed the funds to make the dwellings sanitary or to remove health hazards to the occupants or the community. Over time, the Act has been amended to authorize housing loans and grants to rural residents in general and these are administered by the Rural Housing Service (RHS). The rural housing programs are generally referred to by the section number under which they are authorized in the Housing Act of 1949, as amended. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: HOUSING ACT OF 1949

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Mr. and Mrs. Tom Stuart, (seated) of Hempstead County, Arkansas, are shown reading the news about their good fortune in becoming the first Negro family in the nation to receive a farm housing loan, authorized by the Housing Act of 1949, which Congress pas. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.