---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1474a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1474a"
heading: "Security for direct or insured rural housing loans to farmer applicants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1474a"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Slum Clearance, Urban Renewal, and Farm Housing"
  - "Subchapter III — Farm Housing"
---

# §1474a. Security for direct or insured rural housing loans to farmer applicants


On and after August 8, 1968, farmer applicants for direct or insured rural housing loans shall be required to provide only such collateral security as is required of [owners](/usc/42/13641.md?p=4) of nonfarm tracts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–463, title II, § 201, Aug. 8, 1968, 82 Stat. 651.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1969, and not as part of the Housing Act of 1949 which comprises this chapter.