relocation payments to displaced persons and businesses

relocation payments to displaced persons and businesses Sec. 310. (a) Title I of the Housing Act of 1949 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “relocation “Sec. 114. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, an urban renewal project may include the making of payments as prescribed in this section to displaced individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations; and any contract for financial assistance under this title shall provide that the capital grant otherwise payable for the project shall lie increased by an amount equal to such payments and that no part of the amount of such payments shall be required to be contributed as part of the local grant-in-aid. As used in this section, ‘displaced’ refers to displacement from an urban renewal area made necessary by (1) the acquisition of real property by a local public agency or by any other public body, (2) code enforcement activities undertaken in connection with an urban renewal project, or (3) a program of voluntary rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in accordance with an urban renewal plan. “(b) A local public agency may pay to any displaced business concern or nonprofit organization— “(1) its reasonable and necessary moving expenses and any actual direct losses of property except goodwill or profit (which 78 Stat. 789are incurred on and after August 7, 1956, and for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made): Provided, That such payment shall not exceed $3,000 (or, if greater, the total certified actual moving expenses); and “(2) an additional $1,500 in the case of a private business concern with average annual net earnings of less than $10,000 per year which (A) was doing business in a location in the urban renewal area on the date of local approval of the urban renewal plan (or of acquisition of real property under the third sentence of section 102(a)), (B) is displaced on or after January 27, 1964, and (C) is not part of an enterprise having establishments outside the urban renewal area. Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (1) of the preceding sentence, a business concern which is not being displaced from an urban renewal area shall be eligible for payments under such clause (1) of its certified actual moving expenses with respect to its outdoor advertising displays being removed from the urban renewal area in the same manner as though such business concern were being displaced. “(c) (1) A local public agency may pay to any displaced individual or family his or its reasonable and necessary moving expenses and any actual direct losses of property (which are incurred on and after August 7, 1956, and for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made): Provided, That such payment shall not exceed $200: And provided further, That the Administrator may authorize payment to individuals and families of fixed amounts (not to exceed $200 in any case) in lieu of their respective reasonable and necessary moving expenses and actual direct losses of property. “(2) A local public agency may pay (in addition to any amount under paragraph (1)), on behalf of any displaced family or any displaced individual sixty-two years of age or over, during the first five months after displacement, a relocation adjustment payment, not to exceed $500, to assist such displaced individual or family to acquire a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling. The relocation adjustment payment shall be an amount which, when added to 20 per centum of the annual income of the displaced individual or family at the time of displacement, equals the average rental required, for a 12-month period, for such a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of modest standards adequate in size to accommodate the displaced individual or family (in the urban renewal area or in other areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities): Provided, That such payment shall be made only to an individual or family who is unable to secure a dwelling unit in a low-rent housing project assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937, or under a State or local program found by the Administrator to have the same general purposes as the Federal program under such Act: Provided further, That, payments under this paragraph shall be available only in the case of families, and individuals sixty-two years of age or over, displaced on or after January 27, 1964. “(d) The Administrator is authorized to establish such rules and regulations as he may deem appropriate in carrying out the provisions of this section and may provide in any contract with a local public agency, or in regulations promulgated by the Administrator, that determinations of any duly designated officer or agency as to eligibility for and the amount of relocation assistance authorized by this section shall be final and conclusive for any purposes and not subject to redetermination by any court or any other officer. Such regulations shall include provisions to assure that relocation payments, as authorized by this section, shall be made as promptly as possible to all families, individuals, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations found to be 78 Stat. 790 eligible for such payments by reason of their having been displaced from property in the urban renewal area, without regard to any subsequent proceedings, determinations, or events relating to such property which do not bear upon whether such displacement in fact occurred.” (b) Any contract with a local public agency which was executed under title I of the Housing Act of 1949 before the date of the enactment of this Act may be amended to provide for payments authorized by section 114 of the Housing Act of 1949. (c) Section 106 of the Housing Act of 1949 is amended by striking out subsection (f).