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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 943 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To establish a manufactured housing community improvement grant program, |
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| 6 | 6 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH11 (legislative day, MARCH10), 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. C |
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| 10 | 10 | | ORTEZMASTO(for herself, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. |
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| 11 | 11 | | H |
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| 12 | 12 | | ICKENLOOPER, and Ms. SMITH) introduced the following bill; which was |
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| 13 | 13 | | read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and |
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| 14 | 14 | | Urban Affairs |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To establish a manufactured housing community |
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| 17 | 17 | | improvement grant program, 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 ‘‘Preservation and Rein-4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | vestment Initiative for Community Enhancement Act’’ or 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | the ‘‘PRICE Act’’. 6 |
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| 27 | 27 | | SEC. 2. MANUFACTURED HOUSING COMMUNITY IMPROVE-1 |
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| 28 | 28 | | MENT GRANT PROGRAM. 2 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Title I of the Housing and Community Development 3 |
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| 30 | 30 | | Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) is amended— 4 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) in section 105(a) (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)), in 5 |
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| 32 | 32 | | the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 6 |
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| 33 | 33 | | ‘‘Activities’’ and inserting ‘‘Unless otherwise author-7 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ized under section 123, activities’’; and 8 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 9 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘SEC. 123. PRESERVATION AND REINVESTMENT FOR COM-10 |
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| 37 | 37 | | MUNITY ENHANCEMENT. 11 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(a) D |
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| 39 | 39 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ‘‘(1) C |
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| 41 | 41 | | OMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL IN -13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | STITUTION.—The term ‘community development fi-14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | nancial institution’ means an institution that has 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | been certified as a community development financial 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | institution (as defined in section 103 of the Riegle 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Community Development and Regulatory Improve-18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ment Act of 1994 (12 U.S.C. 4702)) by the Sec-19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | retary of the Treasury. 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(2) E |
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| 50 | 50 | | LIGIBLE MANUFACTURED HOUSING COM -21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | MUNITY.—The term ‘eligible manufactured housing 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | community’ means a manufactured housing commu-23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | nity that— 24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | ‘‘(A) is affordable to low- and moderate-in-25 |
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| 55 | 55 | | come persons, as determined by the Secretary, 26 |
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| 59 | 59 | | but not more than 120 percent of the area me-1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | dian income; and 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(B)(i) is owned by the residents of the 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | manufactured housing community through a 4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | resident-controlled entity such as a resident- 5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | owned cooperative; or 6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | ‘‘(ii) will be maintained as such a commu-7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | nity, and remain affordable for low- and mod-8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | erate-income persons, to the maximum extent 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | practicable and for the longest period feasible. 10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(3) E |
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| 70 | 70 | | LIGIBLE RECIPIENT.—The term ‘eligible 11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | recipient’ means— 12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | ‘‘(A) an eligible manufactured housing 13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | community; 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(B) a unit of general local government; 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ‘‘(C) a housing authority; 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | ‘‘(D) a resident-owned community; 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | ‘‘(E) a resident-owned cooperative; 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | ‘‘(F) a nonprofit entity with housing exper-19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | tise or a consortia of such entities; 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | ‘‘(G) a community development financial 21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | institution; 22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ‘‘(H) an Indian Tribe; 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | ‘‘(I) a tribally designated housing entity; 24 |
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| 84 | 84 | | ‘‘(J) a State; or 25 |
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| 88 | 88 | | ‘‘(K) any other entity that is— 1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | ‘‘(i) an owner-operator of an eligible 2 |
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| 90 | 90 | | manufactured housing community; and 3 |
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| 91 | 91 | | ‘‘(ii) working with an eligible manu-4 |
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| 92 | 92 | | factured housing community. 5 |
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| 93 | 93 | | ‘‘(4) I |
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| 94 | 94 | | NDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian Tribe’ 6 |
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| 95 | 95 | | has the meaning given the term ‘Indian tribe’ in sec-7 |
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| 96 | 96 | | tion 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance 8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 9 |
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| 98 | 98 | | 4103). 10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | ‘‘(5) M |
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| 100 | 100 | | ANUFACTURED HOUSING COMMUNITY .— 11 |
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| 101 | 101 | | The term ‘manufactured housing community’ 12 |
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| 102 | 102 | | means— 13 |
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| 103 | 103 | | ‘‘(A) any community, court, park, or other 14 |
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| 104 | 104 | | land under unified ownership developed and ac-15 |
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| 105 | 105 | | commodating or equipped to accommodate the 16 |
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| 106 | 106 | | placement of manufactured homes, where— 17 |
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| 107 | 107 | | ‘‘(i) spaces within such community are 18 |
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| 108 | 108 | | or will be primarily used for residential oc-19 |
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| 109 | 109 | | cupancy; 20 |
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| 110 | 110 | | ‘‘(ii) all homes within the community 21 |
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| 111 | 111 | | are used for permanent occupancy; 22 |
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| 112 | 112 | | ‘‘(iii) a majority of such occupied 23 |
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| 113 | 113 | | spaces within the community are occupied 24 |
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| 114 | 114 | | by manufactured homes, which may in-25 |
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| 118 | 118 | | clude homes constructed prior to enact-1 |
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| 119 | 119 | | ment of the Manufactured Home Construc-2 |
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| 120 | 120 | | tion and Safety Standards; or 3 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ‘‘(B) any community that meets the defini-4 |
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| 122 | 122 | | tion of manufactured housing community used 5 |
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| 123 | 123 | | for programs similar to the program under this 6 |
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| 124 | 124 | | section. 7 |
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| 125 | 125 | | ‘‘(6) R |
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| 126 | 126 | | ESIDENT HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ACCES-8 |
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| 127 | 127 | | SIBILITY ACTIVITIES.—The term ‘resident health, 9 |
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| 128 | 128 | | safety, and accessibility activities’ means the recon-10 |
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| 129 | 129 | | struction, repair, or replacement of manufactured 11 |
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| 130 | 130 | | housing and manufactured housing communities 12 |
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| 131 | 131 | | to— 13 |
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| 132 | 132 | | ‘‘(A) protect the health and safety of resi-14 |
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| 133 | 133 | | dents; 15 |
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| 134 | 134 | | ‘‘(B) address weatherization and reduce 16 |
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| 135 | 135 | | utility costs; or 17 |
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| 136 | 136 | | ‘‘(C) address accessibility needs for resi-18 |
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| 137 | 137 | | dents with disabilities. 19 |
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| 138 | 138 | | ‘‘(7) T |
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| 139 | 139 | | RIBALLY DESIGNATED HOUSING ENTI -20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | TY.—The term ‘tribally designated housing entity’ 21 |
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| 141 | 141 | | has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the 22 |
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| 142 | 142 | | Native American Housing Assistance and Self-De-23 |
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| 143 | 143 | | termination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4103). 24 |
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| 147 | 147 | | ‘‘(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall, by no-1 |
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| 148 | 148 | | tice, carry out a competitive grant program to award 2 |
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| 149 | 149 | | funds to eligible recipients to carry out eligible projects 3 |
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| 150 | 150 | | for development of or improvements in eligible manufac-4 |
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| 151 | 151 | | tured housing communities. 5 |
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| 152 | 152 | | ‘‘(c) E |
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| 153 | 153 | | LIGIBLEPROJECTS.— 6 |
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| 154 | 154 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 155 | 155 | | N GENERAL.—Amounts from grants 7 |
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| 156 | 156 | | under this section may be used for— 8 |
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| 157 | 157 | | ‘‘(A) community infrastructure, facilities, 9 |
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| 158 | 158 | | utilities, and other land improvements in or 10 |
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| 159 | 159 | | serving an eligible manufactured housing com-11 |
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| 160 | 160 | | munity; 12 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ‘‘(B) reconstruction or repair existing 13 |
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| 162 | 162 | | housing within an eligible manufactured hous-14 |
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| 163 | 163 | | ing community; 15 |
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| 164 | 164 | | ‘‘(C) replacement of homes within an eligi-16 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ble manufactured housing community; 17 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ‘‘(D) planning; 18 |
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| 167 | 167 | | ‘‘(E) resident health, safety, and accessi-19 |
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| 168 | 168 | | bility activities in homes in an eligible manufac-20 |
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| 169 | 169 | | tured housing community; 21 |
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| 170 | 170 | | ‘‘(F) land and site acquisition and infra-22 |
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| 171 | 171 | | structure for expansion or construction of an el-23 |
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| 172 | 172 | | igible manufactured housing community; 24 |
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| 176 | 176 | | ‘‘(G) resident and community services, in-1 |
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| 177 | 177 | | cluding relocation assistance, eviction preven-2 |
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| 178 | 178 | | tion, and down payment assistance; and 3 |
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| 179 | 179 | | ‘‘(H) any other activity that— 4 |
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| 180 | 180 | | ‘‘(i) is approved by the Secretary con-5 |
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| 181 | 181 | | sistent with the requirements under this 6 |
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| 182 | 182 | | section; 7 |
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| 183 | 183 | | ‘‘(ii) improves the overall living condi-8 |
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| 184 | 184 | | tions of an eligible manufactured housing 9 |
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| 185 | 185 | | community, which may include the addi-10 |
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| 186 | 186 | | tion or enhancement of shared spaces such 11 |
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| 187 | 187 | | as community centers, recreational areas, 12 |
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| 188 | 188 | | or other facilities that support resident 13 |
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| 189 | 189 | | well-being and community engagement; 14 |
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| 190 | 190 | | and 15 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ‘‘(iii) is necessary to protect the 16 |
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| 192 | 192 | | health and safety of the residents of the el-17 |
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| 193 | 193 | | igible manufactured housing community 18 |
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| 194 | 194 | | and the long-term affordability and sus-19 |
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| 195 | 195 | | tainability of the community. 20 |
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| 196 | 196 | | ‘‘(2) R |
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| 197 | 197 | | EPLACEMENT.—For purposes of sub-21 |
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| 198 | 198 | | paragraphs (B) and (C) of paragraph (1), grants 22 |
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| 199 | 199 | | under this section— 23 |
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| 203 | 203 | | ‘‘(A) may not be used for rehabilitation or 1 |
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| 204 | 204 | | modernization of units that were built before 2 |
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| 205 | 205 | | June 15, 1976; and 3 |
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| 206 | 206 | | ‘‘(B) may only be used for disposition and 4 |
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| 207 | 207 | | replacement of units described in subparagraph 5 |
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| 208 | 208 | | (A), provided that any replacement housing 6 |
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| 209 | 209 | | complies with the Manufactured Home Con-7 |
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| 210 | 210 | | struction and Safety Standards or is another al-8 |
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| 211 | 211 | | lowed home, as determined by the Secretary. 9 |
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| 212 | 212 | | ‘‘(d) P |
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| 213 | 213 | | RIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-10 |
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| 214 | 214 | | tion, the Secretary shall prioritize applicants that will 11 |
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| 215 | 215 | | carry out activities that primarily benefit low- and mod-12 |
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| 216 | 216 | | erate-income residents and preserve long-term housing af-13 |
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| 217 | 217 | | fordability for residents of eligible manufactured housing 14 |
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| 218 | 218 | | communities. 15 |
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| 219 | 219 | | ‘‘(e) W |
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| 220 | 220 | | AIVERS.—The Secretary may waive or specify 16 |
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| 221 | 221 | | alternative requirements for any provision of law or regu-17 |
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| 222 | 222 | | lation that the Secretary administers in connection with 18 |
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| 223 | 223 | | use of amounts made available under this section other 19 |
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| 224 | 224 | | than requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimina-20 |
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| 225 | 225 | | tion, labor standards, and the environment, upon a finding 21 |
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| 226 | 226 | | that the waiver or alternative requirement is not incon-22 |
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| 227 | 227 | | sistent with the overall purposes of this section and that 23 |
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| 228 | 228 | | the waiver or alternative requirement is necessary to facili-24 |
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| 229 | 229 | | tate the use of amounts made available under this section. 25 |
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| 233 | 233 | | ‘‘(f) IMPLEMENTATION.— 1 |
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| 234 | 234 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 235 | 235 | | N GENERAL.—Any grant made under this 2 |
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| 236 | 236 | | section shall be made pursuant to criteria for selec-3 |
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| 237 | 237 | | tion of recipients of such grants that the Secretary 4 |
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| 238 | 238 | | shall by regulation establish and publish together 5 |
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| 239 | 239 | | with any notification of availability of amounts 6 |
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| 240 | 240 | | under this section. 7 |
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| 241 | 241 | | ‘‘(2) S |
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| 242 | 242 | | ET ASIDE OF GRANT AMOUNTS .—The 8 |
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| 243 | 243 | | Secretary may set aside amounts provided under 9 |
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| 244 | 244 | | this section for grants to Indian Tribes and tribally 10 |
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| 245 | 245 | | designated housing entities. 11 |
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| 246 | 246 | | ‘‘(g) A |
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| 247 | 247 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 12 |
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| 248 | 248 | | is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such 13 |
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| 249 | 249 | | sums as may be necessary to carry out this section, which 14 |
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| 250 | 250 | | shall be in addition to any other funds appropriated to 15 |
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| 251 | 251 | | pursuant to this title.’’. 16 |
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