§ 801. — Congressional findings and purpose.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC801]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 23--TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Sec. 801. Congressional findings and purpose
(a) Need for training and research related to community development
The Congress finds that the rapid expansion of the Nation's urban
areas and urban population has caused severe problems in urban and
suburban development and created a national need to (1) provide special
training in skills needed for economic and efficient community
development, and (2) support research in new or improved methods of
dealing with community development problems.
(b) Fellowships for specialists and personnel in urban affairs; grants
to institutions of higher education; assistance to States and
localities
It is the purpose of this chapter to provide fellowships for the
graduate training of professional city and regional planning,
management, and housing specialists, and professionally trained
personnel with a general capacity in urban affairs and problems: to make
grants to and contracts with institutions of higher education (or
combinations of such institutions) to assist them in planning,
developing, strengthening, improving, or carrying out programs or
projects for the preparation of graduate or professional students to
enter the public service; and to assist and encourage the States and
localities, in cooperation with public and private universities and
colleges and urban centers and with business firms and associations,
labor unions, and other interested associations and organizations, to
(1) organize, initiate, develop, and expand programs which will provide
special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community
development to those technical, professional, and other persons with the
capacity to master and employ such skills who are, or are training to
be, employed by a governmental or public body which has responsibility
for community development, or by a private nonprofit organization which
is conducting or has responsibility for housing and community
development programs, and (2) support State and local research that is
needed in connection with housing programs and needs, public improvement
programing, code problems, efficient land use, urban transportation, and
similar community development problems.
(Pub. L. 88-560, title VIII, Sec. 801, Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 802; Pub.
L. 90-448, title XVII, Sec. 1707(a), Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 605; Pub. L.
91-152, title III, Sec. 307, Dec. 24, 1969, 83 Stat. 392; Pub. L. 93-
383, title IV, Sec. 402(a), Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 691.)
Codification
Pub. L. 93-383, Sec. 402, provided for amendments to title VIII of
the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1964. The amendments of the
enumerated sections of such title VIII have been executed to comparable
sections of title VIII of the Housing Act of 1964 as the probable intent
of Congress.
Amendments
1974--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93-383 expanded purposes of chapter to
include graduate training in regional planning and for training of
personnel with a general capacity in urban affairs and problems and
authorizing grants and contracts with institutions of higher education
for training of graduate or professional students.
1969--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91-152 inserted a comma before ``and
(2)''.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 91-152 inserted provision that it is the
purpose of this chapter to grant fellowships for the graduate training
of professional city planning and urban and housing technicians and
specialists.
1968--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 90-448 provided for cooperation with
business firms and associations, labor unions, and other interested
associations or organizations, included employment by a private
nonprofit organization which is conducting or has responsibility for
housing and community development programs, and substituted ``technical,
professional, and other persons with the capacity to master and employ
such skills'' for ``technical and professional people.''
