§ 4131.
(a)
Primary objective
The national objectives of this chapter are—
(1)
to assist and promote affordable housing activities to develop, maintain, and operate affordable housing in safe and healthy environments on Indian reservations and in other Indian areas for occupancy by low-income Indian families;
(2)
to ensure better access to private mortgage markets for Indian tribes and their members and to promote self-sufficiency of Indian tribes and their members;
(3)
to coordinate activities to provide housing for Indian tribes and their members with Federal, State, and local activities to further economic and community development for Indian tribes and their members;
(4)
to plan for and integrate infrastructure resources for Indian tribes with housing development for tribes; and
(5)
to promote the development of private capital markets in Indian country and to allow such markets to operate and grow, thereby benefiting Indian communities.
([Pub. L. 104–330, title II, § 201], Oct. 26, 1996, [110 Stat. 4031]; [Pub. L. 105–276, title V, § 595(e)(7)], Oct. 21, 1998, [112 Stat. 2657]; [Pub. L. 106–377, § 1(a)(1) [title II, § 210]], Oct. 27, 2000, [114 Stat. 1441], 1441A–26; [Pub. L. 106–568, title X, § 1003(e)], Dec. 27, 2000, [114 Stat. 2926]; [Pub. L. 110–411, title II, § 201], Oct. 14, 2008, [122 Stat. 4324].)