Reading Room Document

Legal Authority to Approve Changes in Use of Property Under Section 414 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969

The proposed sale of property at its fair market value in order to raise funds to build low and moderate income housing on different property constitutes a change in the use of property under section 414 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1969 and the terms of the deed of the 1974 sale of the property. The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the General Services Administration could approve the proposed sale of property to a public body without violating section 414. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20076/download.

March 5, 1996