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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. James T. Lynn, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 501 F.2d 848 (1974)

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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. James T. Lynn, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 501 F.2d 848 (1974)
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. James T. Lynn, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 501 F.2d 848 (1974)
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1974-09-25

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More particularly, the rent supplement program was enacted for the benefit of those of the “8 million Americans who still live[d] in substandard housing” as of 1965 and the “estimated 300,000 families who [would] be displaced from their homes over the next four years” who “are within the income range where they are unable to afford decent housing,” H.Rep.No.365, 89th Cong., 1st Sess. 6 (1965), defined as those whose incomes make them eligible for public housing. 12 U.S.C. § 1701z(c)(1). Sec-, tions 235 and 236 were enacted to assist “lower income families,” specifically “families with incomes in the general range of $3,000 to $7,000,” 49 and the *863