---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8142"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8142"
heading: "Statement of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8142"
units:
  - "Chapter 90 — Neighborhood and City Reinvestment, Self-Help and Revitalization"
  - "Subchapter III — Livable Cities"
---

# §8142. Statement of purpose


The primary purpose of this subchapter is to assist the efforts of [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), local governments, neighborhood and other organizations to provide a more suitable living environment, expand cultural opportunities, and to the extent practicable, stimulate economic opportunities, primarily for the low and moderate income residents of communities and neighborhoods in need of conservation and revitalization, through the utilization, design or development of artistic, cultural, or historic resources.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–557, title VIII, § 803, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2122.)