---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1437bbb"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1437bbb"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1437bbb"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Low-Income Housing"
  - "Subchapter II–B — Home Rule Flexible Grant Demonstration"
---

# §1437bbb. Purpose


The purpose of this subchapter is to demonstrate the effectiveness of authorizing local governments and municipalities, in coordination with the public housing [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for such [jurisdictions](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=1)—

- (1) to receive and combine program [allocations](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=2) of covered [housing assistance](/usc/42/13641.md?p=3); and
- (2) to design creative approaches for providing and administering Federal [housing assistance](/usc/42/13641.md?p=3) based on the particular needs of the [jurisdictions](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=1) that—
  - (A) provide incentives to low-income families with children whose head of the household is employed, seeking employment, or preparing for employment by participating in a job training or educational program, or any program that otherwise assists individuals in obtaining employment and attaining economic self-sufficiency;
  - (B) reduce costs of Federal [housing assistance](/usc/42/13641.md?p=3) and achieve greater cost-effectiveness in Federal [housing assistance](/usc/42/13641.md?p=3) expenditures;
  - (C) increase the stock of affordable housing and housing choices for low-income families;
  - (D) increase homeownership among low-income families;
  - (E) reduce geographic concentration of assisted families;
  - (F) reduce homelessness through providing permanent housing solutions;
  - (G) improve program management; and
  - (H) achieve such other purposes with respect to low-income families, as determined by the participating local governments and municipalities in coordination with the public housing [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1);[^1]

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The semicolon probably should be a period.

## Source credit

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 896, title IV, § 401, as added Pub. L. 105–276, title V, § 561, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2616.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Act Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 896, title IV, § 411, as added by Pub. L. 105–276, title V, § 561, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2624, provided that: “This title [enacting this subchapter] shall take effect on the date of the enactment of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 [Oct. 21, 1998].”