42 U.S.C. § 9817

The Secretary of Agriculture or, where appropriate, the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration, or of the Rural Development Administration, after consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall take all necessary steps to ensure that community development corporations and local cooperative associations shall qualify for and shall receive— (1) such assistance in connection with housing development under the Housing Act of 1949, as amended [ 42 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.]; (2) such assistance in connection with housing, business, industrial, and community development under the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961 [ 7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.] and the Rural Development Act of 1972; and (3) such further assistance under all such programs of the United States Department of Agriculture; as shall further the purposes of this subchapter.