Declaration of policy

Section 2(a) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437(a)) is amended to read as follows: (a) Declaration of policy It is the policy of the United States— (1) to modernize the intersections of Federal and local government by employing the funds and credit of the United States, as provided in this Act— (A) to guarantee the right to housing for every individual; (B) to assist States and political subdivisions of States in ensuring that— (i) all housing in the United States is habitable, highly energy-efficient, and safe; and (ii) housing conditions lead to good health, security, and adequate protection from the economic fears relating to old age, disability, sickness, accident, and unemployment; and (C) to protect, maintain, preserve, and expand public housing as a sustainable safety net for all people; (2) that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government, in conjunction with public housing agencies, to incentivize, promote, and protect the independent, collaborative, and collective actions of public housing residents and other private citizens to develop housing in a manner that strengthens entire neighborhoods; and (3) that the Federal Government should act and create new public housing where there is a serious need that the free market cannot address or is not addressing responsibly and support the staffing needed to maintain and sustain the quality of this public housing..