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AICP Policy

Question	Answer
Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000	Seeks to expand pre-disaster planning to precipitate the widespread loss of life, damage to property, infrastructure and the environment. The Act does not assign any fiscal responsibilities of disasters to any entity.
Federal Aid Programs for Cities	Large scale federal aid programs did not begin until the 1930s and were implemented to spur recovery from the Great Depression.
The Federal Highway Act of 1956 (National Defense Highway Act)	Resulted in the interstate highway system.
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) (1991)	Included funding for scenic byways and historic preservation.
1949 Housing Act	Focused on slum clearance. It inaugurated the idea of urban redevelopment.
1906 Antiquities Act	Passed to protect archaeological sites.
1934 Federal Housing Act	In 1934, during the Great Depression, the Federal Housing Act instituted the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) to insure personal savings and established the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to provide mortgage insurance.
1968 New Communities Act	Provided funding for private development of new towns.
The Ordinance of 1785	Provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest. The rectangular survey has been called "the largest single act of national planning in our history and . . . the most significant in terms of continuing impact on the body politic".
1862 Homestead Act	Opened the lands of the Public Domain to settlers for a nominal fee and five years residence.
1891 General Land Law Revision Act	Gave the President power to create forest preserves by proclamation.
1862 Morrill Act	Authorized that proceeds from the sale of land were to be used to found colleges offering instruction in agriculture, engineering, and other practical arts.
1901 Tenement House Act
The Environmental Indicators Initiative	A creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to collect data to improve the Agency's ability to report on the status of and trends in environmental conditions and their impacts on human health and the nation's natural resources.
The Highway Act of 1962	Required Metropolitan Planning Organizations to be set up and assigned them to the task of creating a long range transportation plan among other things.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980	The “Superfund” bill, created a process and funding pool to deal with sites such as the notorious Love Canal in New York, where housing development was placed on a site that contained over 21,000 tons of contamination.
State Food Policy Councils	25 states now have food policy councils which focus on education and policy but not regulatory issues, which are handled by other state agencies.
The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards	The benchmark for what can and cannot be done to receive the tax credits for historic rehab and are useful in non- tax credit development as a guideline.
The Fair Housing Act	In response to redlining and other discriminatory practices that prevented people from buying, renting or financing housing.
1954 Housing Act	Focused more on slum prevention.

Created by: tbdougla

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