To address the homelessness and housing crises, to move toward the goal of providing for a home for all Americans, and for other purposes.
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Lieu (for himself, Mr. Carbajal, Mrs. McIver, Mr. Fields, …
Primary Purpose
Authorizes over $150 billion in funding for affordable housing programs, expansion of housing choice vouchers to create an entitlement for extremely low-income families, and establishes new programs to address homelessness, racial equity in housing, and coordination between housing and behavioral health services.
Policy Domains
Legislative Strategy
"Massively expand federal investment in affordable housing and establish housing assistance as an entitlement for extremely low-income households while creating new coordination mechanisms between housing, homelessness services, and behavioral health"
Likely Beneficiaries
- Extremely low-income families and individuals
- Homeless individuals and families
- Elderly individuals needing supportive housing
- People with disabilities needing supportive housing
- Communities of color facing housing discrimination
- LGBTQ individuals experiencing housing instability
- Affordable housing developers and nonprofits
- Public housing agencies
- State housing finance agencies
- Continuum of Care organizations
- Hotels and motels being converted to permanent housing
Likely Burden Bearers
- Federal taxpayers (funding appropriations exceeding $150 billion)
- HUD administrative capacity (major expansion of program oversight)
- Property owners in high-opportunity areas (prioritized for project-based assistance)
- Local governments (reporting requirements and coordination mandates)
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- "the_administrator"
- → Administrator of Health Resources and Services Administration
- "the_attorney_general"
- → Attorney General
Note: The Secretary generally refers to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development throughout the bill, but Section 304 uses Attorney General for mobile crisis intervention grants and Section 305/506B uses Secretary of Health and Human Services for library consortium pilot grants
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Has the meaning given the term in section 401 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360)
Have the meanings given those terms in section 103 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302)
Includes individuals who are or have been incarcerated or held in municipal, State, or Federal jails, prisons, juvenile facilities, or other types of detention facilities, who have been held in pre-trial or post-conviction detention, who have an arrest or conviction regardless of whether they were detained or incarcerated, who have been held in immigration detention, or youth held in custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement
A group of individuals defined by a common characteristic that has been found to experience homelessness, housing instability, or to be cost-burdened at a rate higher than that of the general public, including Asian, Black, Latino, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and other communities of color, individuals with disabilities, elderly individuals, foster and former foster youth, LGBTQ individuals, veterans
Has the meaning given the term in section 3(b)(6) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(6))
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
A family who initially has an income that does not exceed 50 percent of the maximum income limitation for extremely low-income families or is an extremely low-income family that includes an individual who is a recipient of supplemental security income benefits
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