Nothing lets the Secretary override local zoning
What the document says“(1) to authorize the Secretary to mandate, supersede, or preempt any local zoning or land use policy; or (2) to affect the requirements of section 105(c)(1) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12705(c)(1)).”
The section states that nothing in it may be read as letting the Secretary order, override, or preempt any local zoning or land use policy, or as affecting the requirements of section 105(c)(1) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.
What the document actually says“(1) to authorize the Secretary to mandate, supersede, or preempt any local zoning or land use policy; or (2) to affect the requirements of section 105(c)(1) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12705(c)(1)).”
The housing agency may not order a town to change its zoning. It may not push that zoning aside. A rule in an older law is left as it was.
To preempt is for a federal rule to override a local one. Congress says that does not happen here. Towns keep control of their own land use.
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