The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may discretionally extend the benefits of this Title to persons who while meeting all other requisites, reside in the urban zones provided they earn their wages in agricultural tasks, and to persons who, while residing in the rural zones, do not earn wages in agricultural tasks; Provided, That as may be determined by regulations, the benefits of this Title may be extended to those persons who having moved from the rural to the urban zone wish to return to the rural zone, and to those residents of the urban zone whose houses were acquired by the Government through purchase or condemnation to carry out any project of public interest, utility or purpose, and to the veterans of the United States Armed Forces, regardless of their annual income, provided they do not own properties and their income, in the judgment of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, does not enable them to solve their housing problem through the private industry.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 79; Mar. 27, 1944, No. 10, p. 20; May 13, 1947, No. 357, p. 686; June 4, 1960, No. 35, p. 59, § 3; July 1, 1975, No. 142, p. 426, § 3.