---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1490j"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1490j"
heading: "Conditions on rent increases in projects receiving assistance under other provisions of law"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1490j"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Slum Clearance, Urban Renewal, and Farm Housing"
  - "Subchapter III — Farm Housing"
---

# §1490j. Conditions on rent increases in projects receiving assistance under other provisions of law


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) may not approve any increase in rental payments, with respect to units in which the tenants are paying rentals in excess of 30 per centum of their incomes, in any [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) which is assisted under section [1484](/usc/42/1484.md), [1485](/usc/42/1485.md), or [1487](/usc/42/1487.md) of this title and under [section 1490a(a)(1)(B) of this title](/usc/42/1490a.md?p=a-1-B) unless the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) [owner](/usc/42/13641.md?p=4) is receiving, or has applied for (within the most recent period of 180 days prior to the effective date of such increase), assistance payments with respect to such [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) under section [1490a(a)(2)(A)](/usc/42/1490a.md?p=a-2-A) or [1490a(a)(5)](/usc/42/1490a.md?p=a-5) of this title or [section 1437f of this title](/usc/42/1437f.md).


## Source credit

(July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title V, § 530, as added Pub. L. 96–399, title V, § 509, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1670; amended Pub. L. 98–181, title I [title V, § 517(d)], Nov. 30, 1983, 97 Stat. 1248; Pub. L. 105–276, title V, § 599C(e)(2)(G), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2663.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–276 substituted “assistance payments with respect to such project under section 1490a(a)(2)(A) or 1490a(a)(5) of this title” for “rental assistance payments with respect to such project under section 1490a(a)(2)(A) of this title”.

1983—Pub. L. 98–181 substituted “30 per centum” for “25 per centum”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1983 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–181 effective six months after Nov. 30, 1983, or upon the earlier promulgation of implementing regulations, see section 517(f) of Pub. L. 98–181, set out as a note under section 1490a of this title.