To authorize the Department of Housing and Urban Development to transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty into sustainable, mixed-income neighborhoods with access to economic opportunities, by revitalizing severely distressed housing, and investing and leveraging investments in well-functioning services, educational opportunities, public assets, public transportation, and improved access to jobs, and for other purposes.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, authorizing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to award competitive grants to local governments, public housing agencies, and nonprofit organizations to transform severely distressed neighborhoods with concentrated extreme poverty. The program aims to replace deteriorating public and assisted housing with new mixed-income developments while investing in education, job access, and community services.
Who Benefits and How
Public housing residents benefit from one-for-one replacement guarantees ensuring they can return to newly constructed or rehabilitated housing in their communities. Local governments and public housing agencies receive federal funding (up to $1 billion/year authorized) to revitalize distressed areas. Community development corporations and nonprofit housing developers can participate as co-applicants to receive grant funding. Low-income households gain access to new affordable housing with 30-50 year affordability restrictions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal taxpayers fund the program through authorized appropriations of $1 billion annually plus additional sums for relocation assistance. Property owners receiving grants must maintain affordability restrictions for 30-50 years, limiting their ability to convert properties to market-rate housing. Grantees face extensive reporting, planning, and compliance requirements including annual reports to Congress and fair housing mandates.
Key Provisions
- Authorizes $1 billion annually for competitive transformation grants, with 80% reserved for public housing
- Requires one-for-one replacement of any demolished public or assisted housing units
- Mandates resident involvement in planning and guarantees residents the right to return to replacement housing
- Exempts certain demolitions from standard public housing disposition rules under Section 18 of the Housing Act of 1937
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Authorizes HUD to provide competitive grants to transform severely distressed neighborhoods with concentrated poverty into sustainable, mixed-income communities through housing revitalization, economic opportunities, and public services.
Key Policy Areas
Housing, Urban Development, Community Development, Social Services
Primary Purpose
Authorizes HUD to provide competitive grants to transform severely distressed neighborhoods with concentrated poverty into sustainable, mixed-income communities through housing revitalization, economic opportunities, and public services.
Policy Domains
Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Act
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Public housing residents
- Public housing agencies
- Local governments
- Nonprofit housing developers
- Community development corporations
- Low-income households
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal taxpayers
- Property owners receiving grants
- Grantees with reporting requirements
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMs. Blunt Rochester (for herself and Mr. Van Hollen) introduced …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Affordable housing stock, Capable alternative entities in same locality, Existing grantees under the Act
Positive-direction: Affordable housing stock, Capable alternative entities in same locality, Existing grantees under the Act, For-profit housing developers with community presence, Grantees with multi-phase projects, Nonprofit housing organizations, Project lenders and investors, Public housing agencies, Public housing agencies in distressed areas, Public housing agencies seeking to demolish distressed housing, Replacement administrators
Negative-direction: Grant applicants, Grantees, Grantees undertaking demolition, Non-compliant grantees, Property owners receiving grant assistance, Property owners receiving grants, Underperforming grantees
Assisted housing residents, Low-income residents, Protected classes under fair housing laws
HUD
HUD faces effects in multiple directions
Construction contractors, Construction industry
Community development corporations
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Includes public housing under Section 9 of the Housing Act of 1937, assisted housing, rural housing through USDA, LIHTC housing, state/local assisted housing with long-term affordability restrictions, and private housing for low/moderate income households with 30+ year affordability requirements
Rental housing assisted under Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937, sections 221(d)(3) or 236 of the National Housing Act, section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, or section 811 of Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act
As defined in section 204(b) of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and HUD Appropriations Act, 1997
Development or improvement of community facilities to promote neighborhood transformation
Local government, public housing agency, or nonprofit entity that owns a major housing project proposed to be assisted
Housing projects in neighborhoods with concentrated extreme poverty requiring substantial rehabilitation or replacement
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