Campus Housing Affordability Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill removes a prior appropriations-law prohibition on housing assistance to students and amends Section 8 tenant-based assistance rules. The HUD Secretary may waive Section 8 requirements for an eligible student enrolled in an institution of higher education and residing in an institutional housing facility. Housing assistance received through the waiver is not counted as income for federal or institutional student financial aid, cooperative education income, National and Community Service Act living allowances, or child support owed by the student.
Who Benefits and How
Low-income college students in campus or institutional housing benefit from potential access to Section 8 tenant-based assistance that current rules may block. Colleges with student housing, public housing agencies, financial aid administrators, and AmeriCorps-style service programs benefit from clearer income-treatment rules for assistance received through the waiver.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HUD, public housing agencies, college housing administrators, financial aid offices, child support agencies, and federal taxpayers must absorb the administrative and fiscal effects of making more students eligible. HUD must administer waivers, housing agencies must process eligibility, and aid offices must exclude the assistance from income calculations.
Key Provisions
- Removes the prior statutory prohibition on housing assistance to students.
- Authorizes HUD to waive Section 8 tenant-based assistance requirements for eligible students in institutional housing.
- Protects waiver-based housing assistance from counting as income for federal and institutional student aid.
- Protects the assistance from cooperative education income, service living allowance, and child support calculations.
- Defines eligible students by higher education enrollment and residence in institutional housing facilities.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Remove barriers to Section 8 tenant-based assistance for eligible students in institutional housing and protect that assistance from being counted as income for financial aid, service allowances, cooperative education income, or child support calculations.
Key Policy Areas
Housing, Education, Student Aid
Primary Purpose
Remove barriers to Section 8 tenant-based assistance for eligible students in institutional housing and protect that assistance from being counted as income for financial aid, service allowances, cooperative education income, or child support calculations.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Low-income college students
- Colleges with student housing
- Public housing agencies
- Financial aid administrators
- Service program participants
Identified Costs
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Public housing agencies
- College housing administrators
- Financial aid offices
- Child support agencies
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Landsman (for himself, Mr. Nunn of Iowa, and Mrs. …
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Colleges operating student housing, Low-income college students in institutional housing
Department of Housing and Urban Development waiver staff
Public housing agencies administering Section 8
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "Cost bearers"
- → ['Federal taxpayers']
- "Beneficiaries"
- → ['Students', 'Colleges', 'Public housing agencies', 'Administrators', 'Participants']
- "Administrators"
- → ['Department of Housing and Urban Development', 'Public housing agencies', 'College housing administrators', 'Financial aid offices', 'Child support agencies']
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
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