Housing for Physically Handicapped Families and Persons: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing ... Eighty-eighth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7394, a Bill to Amend Title II of the Housing Act of 1959 to Extend the Program of Loans for Housing for the Elderly So as to Include Housing for Handicapped Families and Persons

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Page 24 - ... nature that such ability could be improved by more suitable housing conditions. (h) Housing and related facilities means structures suitable for dwelling use by elderly or handicapped families, and structures suitable for use as cafeterias or dining halls, community rooms or buildings, workshops, or infirmaries or other inpatient or outpatient health facilities, or other essential service facilities. (i) Secretary means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or any officer authorized...
Page 2 - housing" means structures suitable for dwelling use by elderly or handicapped families which are (A) new structures, or (B) provided by rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, or improvement of existing structures which are otherwise inadequate for proposed dwelling use by such families. (2) The term "corporation...
Page 1 - ... structures suitable for the above uses provided by rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, or improvement of existing structures which are otherwise inadequate for such uses.
Page 1 - elderly or handicapped families" means families which consist of two or more persons and the head of which (or his spouse) is sixty-two years of age or over or is handicapped, and such term also means a single person who is sixty-two years of age or over or is handicapped. A person shall be considered handicapped if such person is determined, pursuant to regulations issued by the Secretary...
Page 12 - Housing for the elderly" means eight or more new or rehabilitated living units which are specially designed for the use and occupancy of elderly persons. (e) "Mortgagee" means the original lender under a mortgage, and Its successors and assigns, and Includes the holders of credit Instruments Issued under a trust Indenture, mortgage or deed of trust pursuant to which such holders act by and through a trustee therein named. (f) "Mortgagor...
Page 21 - Secretary" means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. (7) The term "construction" means erection of new structures or rehabilitation, alteration, conversion, or improvement of existing structures. (8) The term "related facilities...
Page 12 - Any person sixty-two years of age or over may be construed to be a family within the meaning of the terms 'family' or 'families' as those terms are used in this section 221.".
Page 3 - I welcome the opportunity to appear before you to explain the position of the Urban Renewal Administration with respect to the budget estimates for fiscal year 1963 recently acted on by the House of Representatives. I am most concerned that amounts provided in the House bill for salaries and expenses...
Page 12 - The other amendment modifies the title of the bill to read as follows: "A bill to prohibit discrimination in employment in certain cases because of race, religion, color, national origin, or ancestry.
Page 9 - MEANS, for purposes both of entitlement to benefits and establishment of a period of disability, the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to be of longcontinued and indefinite duration or to result in death.

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