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