---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13604"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13604"
heading: "Assisted applications"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13604"
units:
  - "Chapter 135 — Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing"
  - "Subchapter I — Standards and Obligations of Residency in Federally Assisted Housing"
---

# §13604. Assisted applications

- (a) **Authority—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall provide that any individual or [family](/usc/42/290ff–4.md?p=d-2) applying for occupancy in [federally assisted housing](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) may include in the application for the [housing](/usc/42/1490p–2.md?p=r-3) the name, address, phone number, and other relevant information of a [family member](/usc/42/1320d–9.md?p=b-1), friend, or social, health, advocacy, or other organization, and that the [owner](/usc/42/13641.md?p=4) shall treat such information as confidential.
- (b) **Maintenance of information—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall require the [owner](/usc/42/13641.md?p=4) of any [federally assisted housing](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) receiving an application including such information to maintain such information for any applicants who become tenants of the [housing](/usc/42/1490p–2.md?p=r-3), for the purposes of facilitating contact by the [owner](/usc/42/13641.md?p=4) with such [person](/usc/42/1320a–7k.md?p=d-4-C-i) or organization to assist in providing any services or special care for the tenant and assist in resolving any relevant tenancy issues arising during the tenancy of such tenant.
- (c) **Limitations—** An [owner](/usc/42/13641.md?p=4) of [federally assisted housing](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) may not require any individual or [family](/usc/42/290ff–4.md?p=d-2) applying for occupancy in the [housing](/usc/42/1490p–2.md?p=r-3) to provide the information described in [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 644, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3823.)