Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Secretary of/and U. S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided September 3, 1981No. Civ. A. No. 77-3746PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CASSIBRY, District Judge:
In 1968 Congress declared that the national goal of “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family” had not been fully realized for many of the nation’s lower income families. Accordingly, it amended the National Housing Act of 1934 by enacting the Housing *928and Urban Development Act of 1968,1 “to assist families with incomes so low that they could not otherwise decently house themselves ...” 12 U.S.C. § 1701t (1976). Section 236 of the National Housing Act (“Section 236”)2 is designed, in furtherance of this goal, first to encourage private…
2Cases cited51 opinions
- United States v. SherwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Land v. DollarSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Dugan v. RankSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. BurrSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- United States v. NeustadtSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Johnson v. Secretary of/and U.S. Department of Housing & Urban DevelopmentDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1984
- Lewis E. Johnson v. The Secretary of and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing AdministrationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1983