Community Awareness Act of 2010

Community Awareness Act of 2010 - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, with respect to supportive housing for persons with disabilities, to prohibit the Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD) from providing assistance to an applicant for such supportive housing unless the applicant has held at least one local public open community meeting regarding the application that meets specified requirements.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6178 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6178

To require applicants for assistance under section 811 of the Cranston-
  Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act for supportive housing for 
   persons with disabilities to hold public meetings regarding such 
                             applications.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 2010

   Mr. Djou introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require applicants for assistance under section 811 of the Cranston-
  Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act for supportive housing for 
   persons with disabilities to hold public meetings regarding such 
                             applications.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Community Awareness Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. COMMUNITY MEETING REQUIREMENT.

    Section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing 
Act (42 U.S.C. 8013) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (j), by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(8) Community meeting.--The Secretary may not provide 
        assistance under this section with respect to an application 
        unless the applicant has held at least one meeting regarding 
        the application that meets the following requirements:
                    ``(A) Public notice of such meeting shall be 
                provided in advance of the meeting in accordance with 
                standards that the Secretary shall establish.
                    ``(B) The meeting shall be open to the public.
                    ``(C) The meeting shall be held in the neighborhood 
                in which the housing proposed to be assisted under this 
                section is to be located.
                    ``(D) The meeting shall provide interested persons 
                an opportunity to obtain information from the applicant 
                regarding, and to comment on, the application for 
                assistance under this section and the housing proposed 
                to be assisted.
                    ``(E) The meeting shall be conducted by a 
                representative of the applicant.''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (6), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (7) as paragraph 
                (8); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following 
                new paragraph:
            ``(7) a certification from the applicant that the applicant 
        has held a public meeting regarding the application in 
        accordance with subsection (i)(8); and''.
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