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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1203 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers for |
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| 6 | 6 | | high population areas, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH31, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. G |
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| 10 | 10 | | ALLEGO(for himself, Ms. ROSEN, Ms. CORTEZMASTO, and Mr. KELLY) |
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| 11 | 11 | | introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the |
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| 12 | 12 | | Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental |
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| 15 | 15 | | vouchers for high population areas, and for other purposes. |
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| 16 | 16 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Housing Vouchers 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Fairness Act’’. 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEC. 2. RENTAL VOUCHERS FOR HIGH GROWTH POPU-6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | LATION AREAS. 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) is amended by adding at the 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | end the following: 10 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 1203 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | ‘‘(23) RENTAL VOUCHERS FOR HIGH GROWTH 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | POPULATION AREAS.— 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(A) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | each year, using amounts appropriated pursu-4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ant to subparagraph (B), provide additional as-5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | sistance in an equitable manner to each eligible 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | public housing agency for tenant-based assist-7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ance, based on the population in the area 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | served by the public housing agency, the extent 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | to which existing voucher allocations of the eli-10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | gible public housing agency do not meet its 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | housing affordability needs, and historical 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | shortfalls in providing assistance to such eligi-13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ble public housing agency as a result of voucher 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | formula allocations not keeping pace with popu-15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | lation growth over the period identified in sub-16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | paragraph (C)(ii). 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(B) A |
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| 48 | 48 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA -18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | TIONS.—There are authorized to be appro-19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | priated to Secretary to carry out this paragraph 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2025, which 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | shall be available for renewals in each fiscal 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | year thereafter until expended. 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ‘‘(C) E |
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| 55 | 55 | | LIGIBLE PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | DEFINED.—For the purposes of this paragraph, 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | •S 1203 IS |
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| 60 | 60 | | the term ‘eligible public housing agency’ means 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | a public housing agency that administers Fed-2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | eral housing assistance for an area that, as de-3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | termined by the Secretary— 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ‘‘(i) has a population of greater than 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | 100,000; and 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | ‘‘(ii) is one of 25 areas in the United 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | States that experienced the highest popu-8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | lation growth between 2012 to 2022.’’. 9 |
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