42 U.S.C. § 12702: Objective of national housing policy

to ensure that every resident of the United States has access to decent shelter or assistance in avoiding homelessness; to increase the Nation’s supply of decent housing that is affordable to low-income and moderate-income families and accessible to job opportunities; to improve housing opportunities for all residents of the United States, particularly members of disadvantaged minorities, on a nondiscriminatory basis; to help make neighborhoods safe and livable; to expand opportunities for homeownership; to provide every American community with a reliable, readily available supply of mortgage finance at the lowest possible interest rates; and to encourage tenant empowerment and reduce generational poverty in federally assisted and public housing by improving the means by which self-sufficiency may be achieved.