---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 11922"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "11922"
heading: "Clearinghouse on drug abuse in public housing"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/11922"
units:
  - "Chapter 124 — Public Housing Drug Elimination"
  - "Subchapter II — Drug-Free Public Housing"
---

# §11922. Clearinghouse on drug abuse in public housing

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/11905.md?p=3) of Housing and Urban Development shall establish, in the Office of Public Housing in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a clearinghouse to receive, collect, process, and assemble information regarding the abuse of [controlled substances](/usc/42/11905.md?p=1) in public housing [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2).
- (b) **Functions—** The clearinghouse established under [subsection (a)](#a) shall—
  - (1) respond to inquiries by members of the public requesting assistance in investigating, studying, and working on the problem of the abuse of [controlled substances](/usc/42/11905.md?p=1); and
  - (2) receive, collect, process, assemble, and provide information on programs, authorities, institutions, and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), that may further assist members of the public requesting information from the clearinghouse.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–690, title V, § 5143, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4303.)