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.
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill establishes comprehensive definitions for affordable housing, assisted housing, community development corporations, eligible entities, severely distressed housing, and other key terms that govern how the Choice, authorizes the Secretary of HUD to award competitive grants to eligible entities that submit transformation plans for distressed neighborhoods, establishing the core grant mechanism of the Choice Neighborhoods, and defines eligible grant recipients as local governments, public housing agencies, and nonprofits owning major housing projects. Allows community development corporations and for-profit entities with community presence. It relies on compliance mandates, grants, reporting requirements, and product standards. The main policy areas are Finance, Housing, and Social Welfare.
Who Benefits and How
Public housing residents could face reduced risk, Public housing agencies could gain revenue opportunities, and Local governments could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Grantees would take on compliance duties, Grant applicants would take on compliance duties, and Federal taxpayers could face higher costs.
Key Provisions
- Establishes comprehensive definitions for affordable housing, assisted housing, community development corporations, eligible entities, severely distressed housing, and other key terms that govern how the Choice...
- Authorizes the Secretary of HUD to award competitive grants to eligible entities that submit transformation plans for distressed neighborhoods, establishing the core grant mechanism of the Choice Neighborhoods...
- Defines eligible grant recipients as local governments, public housing agencies, and nonprofits owning major housing projects. Allows community development corporations and for-profit entities with community presence...
- Creates restricts grant eligibility to neighborhoods with both concentrated extreme poverty and severely distressed housing, targeting federal resources to the most distressed communities.
- Creates specifies mandatory and optional activities for transformation grants including housing rehabilitation/demolition/replacement, one-for-one unit replacement, economic self-sufficiency programs, resident return...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill establishes comprehensive definitions for affordable housing, assisted housing, community development corporations, eligible entities, severely distressed housing, and other key terms that govern how the Choice, authorizes the Secretary of HUD to award competitive grants to eligible entities that submit transformation plans for distressed neighborhoods, establishing the core grant mechanism of the Choice Neighborhoods, and defines eligible grant recipients as local governments, public housing agencies, and nonprofits owning major housing projects. Allows community development corporations and for-profit entities with community presence.
Key Policy Areas
Finance, Housing, Social Welfare
Primary Purpose
The bill establishes comprehensive definitions for affordable housing, assisted housing, community development corporations, eligible entities, severely distressed housing, and other key terms that govern how the Choice, authorizes the Secretary of HUD to award competitive grants to eligible entities that submit transformation plans for distressed neighborhoods, establishing the core grant mechanism of the Choice Neighborhoods, and defines eligible grant recipients as local governments, public housing agencies, and nonprofits owning major housing projects. Allows community development corporations and for-profit entities with community presence.
Policy Domains
Choice Neighborhoods Initiative Act
Identified Gains
- Public housing residents
- Public housing agencies
- Local governments
- Nonprofit housing organizations
- Residents of high-poverty neighborhoods
Identified Costs
- Grantees
- Grant applicants
- Federal taxpayers
- Non-compliant grantees
- Grantees undertaking demolition
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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