parity of treatment for the handicapped and elderly in public housing

parity of treatment for the handicapped and elderly in public housing Sec. 104. Section 2(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended to read as follows: “(2) The term ‘families of low income’ means families (including elderly and displaced families) who are in the lowest income group and who cannot afford to pay enough to cause private enterprise in their locality or metropolitan area to build an adequate supply of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for their use. The term ‘families’ includes families consisting of a single person in the case of elderly families and displaced families, and includes the remaining member of a tenant family. The term ‘elderly families’ means families whose heads (or their spouses), or whose sole members, have attained the age at which an individual may elect to receive an old-age benefit under title II of the Social Security Act, or are under a disability as defined in section 223 of that Act, or are handicapped within the meaning of section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959. The term ‘displaced families’ means families displaced by urban renewal or other governmental action, or families whose present or former dwellings are situated in areas determined by the Small Business Administration, subsequent to April 1, 1965, to have been affected by a natural disaster, and which have been extensively damaged or destroyed as the result of such disaster.”