§3103. Relocation services

The agency may provide a relocation advisory assistance program which may include such measures, facilities, or services as may be necessary or appropriate in order:

(1) To determine the needs, if any, of displaced persons for relocation assistance;

(2) To assure that, within a reasonable period of time, prior to displacement there will be available, to the extent that can be reasonably accomplished, in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and individuals displaced, housing meeting the standards established by the agency head for decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, equal in number to the number of, and available to, such displaced persons and reasonably accessible to their places of employment; except that the agency head may prescribe by regulation for instances where such requirements may be waived.

(3) To assist a displaced person displaced from his business or farm operation in obtaining and becoming established in suitable replacement locations;

(4) To supply current and continuing information concerning the Federal Housing Administration home acquisition program under Section 221(d)(2) of the National Housing Act,1 the small business disaster loan program under Section 7(b)(3) of the Small Business Act,2 and other programs of this State or the Federal Government, and information concerning availability, prices and rentals of comparable housing and commercial properties.

Added by Acts 1971, No. 116, §1, emerg. eff. June 14, 1971.

112 U.S.C.A. §1715 L (d)(2).

215 U.S.C.A. §636(b)(3).