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Show able to obtain credit they need from private lenders at reason, able rates and terms. Applications for Farmers Home Administration rural housing loans may be made at the Iron County office, 55 North Main Street, in Cedar City. FHflto Offer Housing Credit To More People The U. S. Department of Agriculture's Agri-culture's Farmers Home Administration Admin-istration is better equipped to handle the housing credit needs of low and moderate income Iron County families as a result of legislation recently signed into law, according to June S. Barron, Farmers Home Administration county supervisor. Barron said the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Develop-ment Act, signed last month by President Johnson, makes it possible pos-sible for a broader range of Iron County families to qualify for housing credit under expanded housing loan authorities of the Farmers Home Administration. The new legislation Barron continued, makes more mortgage credit available to low and moderate mod-erate income families in Iron County by increasing the level of activity of the agency's rural housing loan program. Here are some of the other changes in the rural housing loan program administered by Iron County Farmers Home Administration. Ad-ministration. Many Iron County families who had to go the long route of planning, plan-ning, contracting and building a house can now buy newly constructed con-structed buildings. Before the new legislation, these families could only purchase previously occupied buildings. Qualified low-income families can now obtain housing credit from Farmers Home Administration Administra-tion on the basis of a cosigner. Previously, only those rural persons per-sons G2 years and older qualified for this assistance. The new legislation increases from $1,000 to $1,500 the maximum max-imum amount of assistance the agency can make for emergency repairs or improvements to owner-occupied rural housing or farm service buildings. This credit is not designed to upgrade a building build-ing but only to remove hazards to the health and safety of the family and the community. Rural families on the verge of losing their homes through foreclosure may save their homes if a sound basis can be developed develop-ed by the Farmers Home Administration, Admin-istration, to refinance their debts. Loans by the Farmers Home Administration are made to Iron County applicants who are un- |