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42 U.S.C. § 1982 — Property rights of citizens

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42 U.S.C. § 1982 — Property rights of citizens

All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property.

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All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every State and Territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property.

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42 U.S.C. § 3608 — Administration

**(a) Authority and responsibility** The authority and responsibility for administering this Act shall be in the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. **(b) Assistant Secretary** The Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be provided an additional Assistant Secretary. **(c) Delegation of authority; appointment of administrative law judges; location of conciliation meetings; administrative review** The Secretary may delegate any of his functions, duties, and powers to employees of the Department of Housing and Urban Development or to boards of such employees, including functions, duties, and powers with respect to investigating, conciliating, hearing, determining, ordering, certifying, reporting, or otherwise acting as to any work, business, or matter under this subchapter. The person to whom such delegations are made with respect to hearing functions, duties, and powers shall be appointed and shall serve in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in compliance with sections 3105, 3344, 5372, and 7521 of title 5. Insofar as possible, conciliation meetings shall be held in the cities or other localities where the discriminatory housing practices allegedly occurred. The Secretary shall by rule prescribe such rights of appeal from the decisions of his administrative law judges to other administrative law judges or to other officers in the Department, to boards of officers or to himself, as shall be appropriate and in accordance with law. **(d) Cooperation of Secretary and executive departments and agencies in administration of housing and urban development programs and activities to further fair housing purposes** All executive departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to housing and urban development (inclu

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42 U.S.C. § 1441 — Congressional declaration of national housing policy

The Congress declares that the general welfare and security of the Nation and the health and living standards of its people require housing production and related community development sufficient to remedy the serious housing shortage, the elimination of substandard and other inadequate housing through the clearance of slums and blighted areas, and the realization as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family, thus contributing to the development and redevelopment of communities and to the advancement of the growth, wealth, and security of the Nation. The Congress further declares that such production is necessary to enable the housing industry to make its full contribution toward an economy of maximum employment, production, and purchasing power. The policy to be followed in attaining the national housing objective established shall be: (1) private enterprise shall be encouraged to serve as large a part of the total need as it can; (2) governmental assistance shall be utilized where feasible to enable private enterprise to serve more of the total need; (3) appropriate local public bodies shall be encouraged and assisted to undertake positive programs of encouraging and assisting the development of well-planned, integrated residential neighborhoods, the development and redevelopment of communities, and the production, at lower costs, of housing of sound standards of design, construction, livability, and size for adequate family life; (4) governmental assistance to eliminate substandard and other inadequate housing through the clearance of slums and blighted areas, to facilitate community development and redevelopment, and to provide adequate housing for urban and rural nonfarm families with incomes so low th

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12 U.S.C. § 1715z–21 — Federal Housing Administration operations

**(a) Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund** (1) **Establishment** — Subject to the provisions of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 [[2 U.S.C. 661](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section661&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], there is hereby created a Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (in this subchapter referred to as the “Fund”), which shall be used by the Secretary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter with respect to mortgages insured under [section 1709 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section1709&num=0&edition=prelim). The Secretary may enter into commitments to guarantee, and may guarantee, such insured mortgages. (2) **Limit on loan guarantees** — The authority of the Secretary to enter into commitments to guarantee such insured mortgages shall be effective for any fiscal year only to the extent that the aggregate original principal loan amount under such mortgages, any part of which is guaranteed, does not exceed the amount specified in appropriations Acts for such fiscal year. (3) **Fiduciary responsibility** — The Secretary has a responsibility to ensure that the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund remains financially sound. (4) **Annual independent actuarial study** — The Secretary shall provide for an independent actuarial study of the Fund to be conducted annually, which shall analyze the financial position of the Fund. The Secretary shall submit a report annually to the Congress describing the results of such study and assessing the financial status of the Fund. The report shall recommend adjustments to underwriting standards, program participation, or premiums, if necessary, to ensure that the Fund remains financially sound. The report shall also include an evaluation

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42 U.S.C. § 1982 — Property rights of citizens

Page 5234 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 1982 (3) Reasonable accommodation and good faith effort In cases where a discriminatory practice in- volves the provision of a reasonable accommo- dation pursuant to section 102(b)(5) of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 [42 U.S.C. 12112(b)(5)] or regulations implementing section 791 of title 29, damages may not be awarded under this section where the covered entity demonstrates good faith efforts, in con- sultation with the person with the disability who has informed the covered entity that ac- commodation is needed, to identify and make a reasonable accommodation that would pro- vide such individual with an equally effective opportunity and would not cause an undue hardship on the operation of the business. (b) Compensatory and punitive damages (1) Determination of punitive damages A complaining party may recover punitive damages under this section against a respond- ent (other than a government, government agency or political subdivision) if the com- plaining party demonstrates that the respond- ent engaged in a discriminatory practice or discriminatory practices with malice or with reckless indifference to the federally protected rights of an aggrieved individual. (2) Exclusions from compensatory damages Compensatory damages awarded under this section shall not include backpay, interest on backpay, or any other type of relief authorized under section 706(g) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [42 U.S.C. 2000e–5(g)]. (3) Limitations The sum of the amount of compensatory damages awarded under this section for future pecuniary losses, emotional pain, suffering, in- convenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoy- ment of life, and other nonpecuniary losses, and the amount of punitive dama

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