---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12752"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12752"
heading: "Distribution of assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12752"
units:
  - "Chapter 130 — National Affordable Housing"
  - "Subchapter II — Investment in Affordable Housing"
  - "Part A — HOME Investment Partnerships"
---

# §12752. Distribution of assistance

- (a) **Local—** Each [participating jurisdiction](/usc/42/12704.md?p=4) shall, insofar as is feasible, distribute assistance under this part geographically within its boundaries and among different categories of [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8) need, according to the priorities of [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8) need identified in the [jurisdiction](/usc/42/12704.md?p=3)’s approved [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8) strategy.
- (b) **State—** Participating [States](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2) shall be responsible for distributing assistance throughout the [State](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2) according to the [State](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2)’s assessment of the geographical distribution of the [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8) need within the [State](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2), as identified in the [State](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2)’s approved [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8) strategy. Participating [States](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2) shall distribute assistance to rural areas in amounts that take into account the nonmetropolitan share of the [State](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2)’s total population and objective measures of rural [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8) need, such as poverty and substandard [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8), as set forth in the [State](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2)’s [housing](/usc/42/12704.md?p=8) strategy approved under [section 12705 of this title](/usc/42/12705.md). To the extent the need is within the boundaries of a participating [unit of general local government](/usc/42/12704.md?p=1), the [State](/usc/42/12704.md?p=2) and the [unit of general local government](/usc/42/12704.md?p=1) shall coordinate activities to address that need.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–625, title II, § 222, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4112.)