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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2684 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Department of Housing and Urban Development to inspect |
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| 6 | 6 | | certain public housing developments to ensure compliance with housing |
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| 7 | 7 | | quality and safety standards, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL7, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. M |
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| 11 | 11 | | ALLIOTAKISintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on Financial Services |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To require the Department of Housing and Urban Develop- |
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| 15 | 15 | | ment to inspect certain public housing developments to |
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| 16 | 16 | | ensure compliance with housing quality and safety stand- |
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| 17 | 17 | | ards, and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Dignity in Housing 4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEC. 2. INSPECTIONS. 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Subsection (f) of section 6 of the United States Hous-2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | ing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437d(f)) is amended by add-3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | ing at the end the following new paragraph: 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘(4) L |
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| 31 | 31 | | ARGE PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOP -5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | MENTS.— 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘(A) B |
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| 34 | 34 | | IENNIAL INSPECTIONS.—The Sec-7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | retary shall make inspections of each public 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | housing project consisting of 100 dwelling units 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | or more not less frequently than biennially to 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | determine whether the project is, and units in 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | the project are, maintained in accordance with 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | the requirements under paragraph (1). 13 |
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| 41 | 41 | | ‘‘(B) I |
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| 42 | 42 | | NSPECTORS.—Inspections of a public 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | housing project required under this paragraph 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | shall be— 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ‘‘(i) in addition to inspections required 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | by paragraph (3); and 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(ii) conducted by employees of the 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Department of Housing and Urban Devel-20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | opment or such other inspectors as may be 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | obtained by the Secretary, but not includ-22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ing any officers or employees or a public 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | housing agency or any agent of a public 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | housing agency. 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | ‘‘(C) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The Sec-1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | retary shall make the results of inspections pur-2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | suant to this paragraph publicly available on-3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | line.’’. 4 |
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