---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1701z–12"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1701z–12"
heading: "Housing access"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1701z-12"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — National Housing"
---

# §1701z–12. Housing access


The [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) shall require any purchaser of a [multifamily housing](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=1) project owned by the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) which is sold on or after October 1, 1978, to agree not to refuse unreasonably to lease a vacant dwelling unit in the project which rents for an amount not greater than the fair market rent for a comparable unit in the area as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) under [section 1437f of title 42](/usc/42/1437f.md) to a holder of a certificate of eligibility under that section solely because of such prospective tenant’s status as a certificate holder.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–557, title II, § 204, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2090.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978, and not as part of the National Housing Act which comprises this chapter.