---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13604"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13604"
heading: "Assisted applications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13604"
units:
  - "Chapter 135 — Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing"
  - "Subchapter I — Standards and Obligations of Residency in Federally Assisted Housing"
---

# §13604. Assisted applications

- (a) **Authority—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall provide that any individual or family applying for occupancy in [federally assisted housing](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-2) may include in the application for the housing the name, address, phone number, and other relevant information of a family member, friend, or social, health, advocacy, or other organization, and that the [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) shall treat such information as confidential.
- (b) **Maintenance of information—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall require the [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) of any [federally assisted housing](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-2) receiving an application including such information to maintain such information for any applicants who become tenants of the housing, for the purposes of facilitating contact by the [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) with such person or organization to assist in providing any services or special care for the tenant and assist in resolving any relevant tenancy issues arising during the tenancy of such tenant.
- (c) **Limitations—** An [owner](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) of [federally assisted housing](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-2) may not require any individual or family applying for occupancy in the housing to provide the information described in [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 644, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3823.)