Orrego v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MORAN, District Judge.

For the last half century Congress has made periodic efforts to provide housing assistance to the nation’s low and moderate income families. Congressional measures in large part have been incremental, springing from historical contexts that present pending crises. Federal endeavors began in response to widespread mortgage foreclosures, the drying up of mortgage credit and the lack of construction activity created by the “great depression.” Congress enacted the National Housing Act of 1937 “to remedy ... the acute shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary…