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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2747
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish
a grant and loan program that provides amounts to eligible entities
to use to develop, create, or preserve qualifying affordable dwelling units,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL8, 2025
Ms. S
TEVENS(for herself and Mr. TORRESof New York) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
to establish a grant and loan program that provides
amounts to eligible entities to use to develop, create,
or preserve qualifying affordable dwelling units, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Healthy Affordable 4
Housing Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. GRANT AND LOAN PROGRAM FOR AFFORDABLE 1
DWELLING UNITS. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 3
Urban Development shall, not later than 1 year after the 4
date of the enactment of this section, establish a grant 5
and loan program that provides amounts to eligible enti-6
ties to use to develop, create, or preserve qualifying afford-7
able dwelling units in neighborhoods that the Secretary 8
has determined have shortages of affordable housing. 9
(b) A
PPLICATION ANDSELECTION.— 10
(1) I
N GENERAL.—To apply for a grant or loan 11
under this section, an eligible entity shall submit an 12
application to the Secretary at such time and in 13
such manner as the Secretary may reasonably re-14
quire. 15
(2) L
OCATION REQUIREMENT .— 16
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Grants and loans may 17
only be awarded to applicants that propose to 18
develop, create, or preserve qualifying afford-19
able dwelling units that are in a neighborhood 20
with— 21
(i) a Federally qualified health center; 22
(ii) a health care provider who, as de-23
termined by the Secretary accepts Med-24
icaid and provides primary care services; 25
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(iii) a grocery store that accepts Sup-1
plemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 2
or the Nutrition Assistance Program, bene-3
fits and Special Supplemental Nutrition 4
Program for Women, Infants, and Chil-5
dren benefits; 6
(iv) a State licensed child care pro-7
vider or an eligible child care provider 8
under the Child Care and Development 9
Block Grant Act that cares for at least one 10
child to whom the provider is not related; 11
(v) a pharmacy; or 12
(vi) public transportation, as such 13
term is defined in paragraph (15) of sec-14
tion 5302 of title 49, United States Code. 15
(B) P
REFERENCE.—The Secretary shall 16
give preference to applicants that are— 17
(i) developing, creating, or preserving 18
qualifying affordable dwelling units that 19
are not more than a mile from 2 or more 20
of the types of amenities listed in subpara-21
graph (A); or 22
(ii) developing, creating, or pre-23
serving, with or without the assistance of 24
a partnering entity, qualifying affordable 25
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dwelling units that are located in buildings 1
that have or will contain any of the amen-2
ities listed in subparagraph (A). 3
(C) S
ELECTION CRITERIA.—The Secretary, 4
in administering the grant and loan program, 5
may establish selection criteria relating to— 6
(i) how many qualifying affordable 7
housing units will be developed, created, or 8
preserved; 9
(ii) the boundaries of the neighbor-10
hood in which the qualifying affordable 11
dwelling units are to be developed, created, 12
or preserved; and 13
(iii) the area median income in the 14
area in which the qualifying affordable 15
housing units are to be developed, created, 16
or preserved. 17
(c) S
URVEY.— 18
(1) I
N GENERAL.— 19
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Two years after the 20
date that any qualifying affordable dwelling 21
unit is first occupied after being developed, cre-22
ated, or preserved using amounts provided 23
under this section, and every 2 years thereafter 24
for 10 years, the Secretary shall conduct a vol-25
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untary survey of residents in such dwelling unit 1
about any benefits they perceive associated with 2
being physically near the amenities listed in 3
subsection (b)(2)(A). 4
(B) C
ONTROL GROUP PERMITTED .—The 5
Secretary may, if the Secretary determines ap-6
propriate, survey persons who are not residents 7
in a qualifying affordable dwelling unit that re-8
ceived amounts under this section as part of a 9
control group for the survey required under 10
subparagraph (A). 11
(2) R
EPORT.— 12
(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, 13
not later than 1 year after the date on which 14
the Secretary completes a survey required 15
under paragraph (1), compile the results of 16
each survey conducted under paragraph (1) and 17
submit a report about such results to the Com-18
mittees on Appropriations and Financial Serv-19
ices of the House of Representatives and the 20
Committees on Appropriations and Banking, 21
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate. 22
(B) R
EQUIREMENT.—Each report sub-23
mitted under subparagraph (A) shall evaluate, 24
with respect to each qualifying affordable dwell-25
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ing unit developed, created, or preserved using 1
amounts provided under this section, whether 2
nearby the amenities identified in subsection 3
(b)(2)(A) have closed or changed location in the 4
time since the previous report submitted under 5
subparagraph (A). 6
(d) R
ULES OFCONSTRUCTION.— 7
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Nothing in this section may 8
be construed to prohibit the Secretary from award-9
ing a grant or loan under this section to a person 10
who has applied for another funding opportunity ad-11
ministered by the Secretary relating to the develop-12
ment, creation, or preservation of affordable housing 13
units. 14
(2) R
ENTAL ASSISTANCE.—Nothing in this sec-15
tion may be construed to prohibit a qualifying af-16
fordable dwelling unit that is developed, created, or 17
preserved using amounts provided under this section 18
from receiving tenant-based assistance or project- 19
based assistance under section 8(o) of the United 20
States Housing Act of 1937. 21
(e) A
UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 22
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary 23
$100,000,000 in each of fiscal years 2025 to 2029 carry 24
out this section. 25
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(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 1
(1) E
LIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti-2
ty’’ means— 3
(A) a unit of general local government, in-4
cluding county government; 5
(B) a tribe, tribal entity or tribally des-6
ignated housing entity; 7
(C) an owner or developer of a qualifying 8
affordable dwelling unit; 9
(D) a public housing agency; 10
(E) an organization with a mission that in-11
volves the development, creation, preservation, 12
renovation, operation, or maintenance of afford-13
able housing; or 14
(F) any combination of the entities de-15
scribed in subparagraphs (A) through (E). 16
(2) F
EDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CEN -17
TER.—The term ‘‘Federally qualified health center’’ 18
has the meaning given the term in section 19
1861(aa)(4) of the Social Security 22 Act (42 20
U.S.C. 1395x(aa)). 21
(3) Q
UALIFYING AFFORDABLE DWELLING 22
UNIT.—The term ‘‘qualifying affordable dwelling 23
unit’’ means a dwelling unit that— 24
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(A) qualifies as affordable housing under 1
215(a) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Af-2
fordable Housing Act; and 3
(B) meets the income targeting require-4
ments described in section 214(1) of such Act. 5
(4) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 6
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 7
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