42 USC 12705d - Regulatory barriers clearinghouse

U.S Code last checked for updates: May 03, 2024

§ 12705d.

Regulatory barriers clearinghouse

(a)

Establishment

The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall establish a clearinghouse to serve as a national repository to receive, collect, process, assemble, and disseminate information regarding—

(1)

State and local laws, regulations, and policies affecting the development, maintenance, improvement, availability, or cost of affordable housing (including tax policies affecting land and other property, land use controls, zoning ordinances, building codes, fees and charges, growth limits, and policies that affect the return on investment in residential property), and the prevalence and effects on affordable housing of such laws, regulations, and policies;

(2)

State and local activities, strategies, and plans to remove or ameliorate the negative effects, if any, of such laws, regulations, and policies, including particularly innovative or successful activities, strategies, and plans; and

(3)

State and local strategies, activities and plans that promote affordable housing and housing desegregation, including particularly innovative or successful strategies, activities, and plans.

(b)

Functions

The clearinghouse established under subsection (a) shall—

(1)

respond to inquiries from State and local governments, other organizations, and individuals requesting information regarding State and local laws, regulations, policies, activities, strategies, and plans described in subsection (a);

(2)

provide assistance in identifying, examining, and understanding such laws, regulations, policies, activities, strategies, and plans; and

(3)

by making available through a World Wide Web site of the Department, by electronic mail, or otherwise, provide to each housing agency of a unit of general local government that serves an area having a population greater than 100,000, an index of all State and local strategies and plans submitted under subsection (a) to the clearinghouse, which—

(A)

shall describe the types of barriers to affordable housing that the strategy or plan was designed to ameliorate or remove; and

(B)

shall, not later than 30 days after submission to the clearinghouse of any new strategy or plan, be updated to include the new strategy or plan submitted.

(c)

Organization

(d)

Timing

(Pub. L. 102–550, title XII, § 1205, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3940; Pub. L. 106–569, title I, § 103, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2947.)

cite as: 42 USC 12705d