H.R. 1724, Emergency Housing Voucher Act of 2021
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H.R. 1724, the Emergency Housing Voucher Act of 2021, was introduced in the House of Representatives on March 9, 2021, by Waters and referred to the Committee on Financial Services. It appropriates $5,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2021 to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, available through fiscal year 2030, for incremental emergency vouchers, renewals of those vouchers, administrative fees and adjustments in the calendar year 2021 section 8 renewal funding allocation. The Secretary may use not more than $10,000,000, without competition, for awards to existing technical assistance providers to increase capacity building for public housing agencies.
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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1724
To provide emergency rental assistance vouchers to respond to the COVID–
19 pandemic, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 9, 2021
Ms. WATERS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To provide emergency rental assistance vouchers to respond
to the COVID–19 pandemic, and for other purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency Housing
5 Voucher Act of 2021’’.
6 SEC. 2. EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE VOUCHER PRO-
7 GRAM.
8 (a) APPROPRIATION.—In addition to amounts other-
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9 wise made available, out of any money in the Treasury
10 not otherwise appropriated, there is appropriated for an
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1 additional amount to the Secretary of Housing and Urban
2 Development (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
3 retary’’), $5,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2021, to remain
4 available through fiscal year 2030, for—
5 (1) incremental emergency vouchers under sub-
6 section (b);
7 (2) renewals of the vouchers under subsection
8 (b);
9 (3) fees for the costs of administering vouchers
10 under subsection (b) and other eligible expenses de-
11 fined by notice to prevent, prepare, and respond to
12 coronavirus to facilitate the leasing of the emergency
13 vouchers, such as security deposit assistance and
14 other costs related to retention and support of par-
15 ticipating owners; and;
16 (4) adjustments in the calendar year 2021 sec-
17 tion 8 renewal funding allocation, including main-
18 stream vouchers, for public housing agencies that ex-
19 perience a significant increase in voucher per-unit
20 costs due to extraordinary circumstances or that, de-
21 spite taking reasonable cost savings measures, would
22 otherwise be required to terminate rental assistance
23 for families as a result of insufficient funding.
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24 (b) EMERGENCY VOUCHERS.—
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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide
2 emergency rental assistance vouchers under sub-
3 section (a), which shall be tenant-based rental assist-
4 ance under section 8(o) of the United States Hous-
5 ing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)).
6 (2) QUALIFYING INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILIES DE-
7 FINED.—For the purposes of this section, qualifying
8 individuals or families are those who are—
9 (A) homeless (as such term is defined in
10 section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Home-
11 less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302(a));
12 (B) at risk of homelessness (as such term
13 is defined in section 401(1) of the McKinney-
14 Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C.
15 11360(1)));
16 (C) fleeing, or attempting to flee, domestic
17 violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalk-
18 ing, or human trafficking; or
19 (D) recently homeless, as determined by
20 the Secretary, and for whom providing rental
21 assistance will prevent the family’s homeless-
22 ness or having high risk of housing instability.
23 (3) ALLOCATION.—Public housing agencies
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24 shall be notified of the number of emergency vouch-
25 ers allocated to the agency not later than 60 days
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1 after the date of the enactment of this Act, in ac-
2 cordance with a formula that includes public housing
3 agency capacity and ensures geographic diversity, in-
4 cluding with respect to rural areas, among public
5 housing agencies administering the Housing Choice
6 Voucher program.
7 (4) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—
8 (A) ELECTION TO ADMINISTER.—The Sec-
9 retary shall establish a procedure for public
10 housing agencies to accept or decline the emer-
11 gency vouchers allocated to the agency in ac-
12 cordance with the formula under subparagraph
13 (3).
14 (B) FAILURE TO USE VOUCHERS PROMPT-
15 LY.—If a public housing agency fails to lease
16 its authorized vouchers under subsection (b) on
17 behalf of eligible families within a reasonable
18 period of time, the Secretary may revoke and
19 redistribute any unleased vouchers and associ-
20 ated funds, including administrative fees and
21 costs referred to in subsection (a)(3), to other
22 public housing agencies according to the for-
23 mula under paragraph (3).
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24 (5) WAIVERS AND ALTERNATIVE REQUIRE-
25 MENTS.—Any provision of any statute or regulation
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1 used to administer the amounts made available
2 under this section (except for requirements related
3 to fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards,
4 and the environment), shall be waived upon a find-
5 ing that any such waivers or alternative require-
6 ments are necessary to expedite or facilitate the use
7 of amounts made available in this section.
8 (6) TERMINATION OF VOUCHERS UPON TURN-
9 OVER.—After September 30, 2023, a public housing
10 agency may not reissue any vouchers made available
11 under this section when assistance for the family as-
12 sisted ends.
13 (c) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND OTHER COSTS.—
14 The Secretary may use not more $20,000,000 of the
15 amounts made available under this section for the costs
16 to the Secretary of administering and overseeing the im-
17 plementation of this section and the Housing Choice
18 Voucher program generally, including information tech-
19 nology, financial reporting, and other costs. Of the
20 amounts set aside under this subsection, the Secretary
21 may use not more than $10,000,000, without competition,
22 to make new awards or increase prior awards to existing
23 technical assistance providers to provide an immediate in-
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24 crease in capacity building and technical assistance to
25 public housing agencies.
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1 (d) IMPLEMENTATION.—The provisions of this sec-
2 tion may be implemented by notice.
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