findings and purpose

findings and purpose Sec. 801. (a) The Congress finds that the rapid expansion of the Nation’s urban areas and urban population has caused severe problems in urban and suburban development and created a national need to (1) provide special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community development and (2) support research in new or improved methods of dealing with community development problems. (b) It is the purpose of this part to assist and encourage the States, in cooperation with public or private universities and colleges and urban centers, to (1) organize, initiate, develop, and expand programs which will provide special training in skills needed for economic and efficient community development to those technical and professional people who are, or are training to be, employed by a governmental or, in body which has responsibilities for community development; and (2) support State and local research that is needed in connection with housing programs and needs, public improvement programing, code problems, efficient land use, urban transportation, and similar community development problems.