---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12897"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12897"
heading: "Limitation on selection criteria"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12897"
units:
  - "Chapter 130 — National Affordable Housing"
  - "Subchapter IV — Hope for Homeownership of Multifamily and Single Family Homes"
  - "Part B — HOPE for Homeownership of Single Family Homes"
---

# §12897. Limitation on selection criteria


In establishing criteria for selecting [applicants](/usc/42/12876.md?p=1) to receive assistance under this part, the [Secretary](/usc/42/12704.md?p=16) may not establish any selection criterion or criteria that grant or deny such assistance to an [applicant](/usc/42/12876.md?p=1) (or have the effect of granting or denying assistance) based on the implementation, continuation, or discontinuation of any public policy, regulation, or law of any [jurisdiction](/usc/42/12704.md?p=3) in which the [applicant](/usc/42/12876.md?p=1) or [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) is located.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–625, title IV, § 447, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4180.)