Generational Residences and Nurturing Dwellings Act or GRAND Act - Establishes in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a program to provide need-based assistance for each fiscal year, made available on a competitive basis, to up to five eligible nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of specialized housing and social services for qualified elderly relatives, age 60 or older, who are raising a child of which they are not a parent either by blood or marriage.
Provides such assistance in the form of:
[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3501 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3501
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide
assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide specialized
housing and supportive services for elderly persons who are the primary
caregivers of children that are related to such persons.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 14, 2013
Mr. Serrano introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Financial Services
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A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide
assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide specialized
housing and supportive services for elderly persons who are the primary
caregivers of children that are related to such persons.
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 ``Generational Residences and
Nurturing Dwellings Act'' or the ``GRAND Act''.
SEC. 2. HOUSING FOR ELDERLY CAREGIVERS.
(a) Establishment.--There is established in the Department of
Housing and Urban Development a program to provide assistance to
eligible nonprofit organizations to expand the supply of specialized
housing for qualified relatives raising a child.
(b) Application.--To receive assistance under the program under
this section, an eligible nonprofit organization shall submit an
application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and
containing such information as the Secretary may require, which in the
case of an application for assistance to be provided as described in
subsection (e)(2) shall include such provisions ensuring coordination
with a public housing agency that will administer such assistance as
the Secretary shall require.
(c) Need-Based; Competition.--Assistance provided under the program
under this section shall be need-based and made available on a
competitive basis.
(d) Limit on Organizations Selected.--For each fiscal year, the
Secretary may select not more than 5 eligible organizations to receive
assistance under the program under this section.
(e) Forms of Assistance.--Under the program under this section,
assistance shall be made available in the following forms:
(1) New housing.--Financing for the construction,
reconstruction, moderate or substantial rehabilitation, or
acquisition of a structure or a portion of a structure to be
used as specialized housing in accordance with the program.
(2) Rental voucher assistance.--To provide tenant-based
rental assistance under section 8(o) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for use only by
qualified relatives who are raising a child and are eligible
for such assistance for rental of a dwelling unit that
qualifies as specialized housing.
(3) Elderly housing project rental assistance.--To provide
project rental assistance under section 202(b)(2) of the
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(b)(2)) in connection with
dwelling units that qualify as specialized housing and are made
available for occupancy only by qualified relatives who are
raising a child and are eligible for occupancy in such housing;
and notwithstanding any other provision of law, any qualified
relative who is raising a child who is otherwise eligible for
occupancy in such housing may not be excluded from such
occupancy because the household includes such child.
(4) Operational expenses and supportive services.--
Assistance for ongoing operational expenses of any specialized
housing, including costs of supportive services required for
such housing.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) Child.--The term ``child'' means an individual who--
(A) is not attending school and is not more than 18
years of age; or
(B) is attending school and is not more than 19
years of age.
(2) Elderly person.--The term ``elderly person'' means a
person who is 60 years of age or more.
(3) Eligible nonprofit organization.--
(A) In general.--The term ``eligible nonprofit
organization'' means an organization that--
(i) provides specialized housing and social
services for qualified relatives who are
raising a child; and
(ii) is described in section 501(c)(3) of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt
from tax under section 501(a) of such Code.
(B) Political divisions included.--Such term
includes organizations that provide such services in
each of the several States, the District of Columbia,
and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the
United States.
(4) Qualified relative.--
(A) In general.--The term ``qualified relative''
means, with respect to a child, an individual who is--
(i) an elderly person;
(ii) is not a parent of the child by blood
or marriage; and
(iii) is a relative of the child by blood
or marriage.
(B) Adopted children.--In the case of a child who
was adopted, the term includes an individual who, by
blood or marriage, is a relative of the family who
adopted the child.
(5) Raising a child.--The term ``raising a child'' means,
with respect to an individual, that the individual--
(A) resides with the child; and
(B) is the primary caregiver (or is, together with
a spouse or other household member, a primary
caregiver) for the child--
(i) because the biological or adoptive
parents of the child do not reside with the
child or are unable or unwilling to serve as
the primary caregiver for the child; and
(ii) regardless of whether the individual
has a legal relationship to the child (such as
guardianship or legal custody) or is caring for
the child informally and has no such legal
relationship with the child.
(6) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development.
(7) Specialized housing.--The term ``specialized housing''
means housing that--
(A) is affordable (as the Secretary shall define
for purposes of this Act) for low-income families (as
such term is defined in section 3(b) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b));
(B) is restricted to occupancy only by low-income
families;
(C) is designed to meet the special physical needs
of elderly persons;
(D) accommodates the provision of supportive
services that are expected to be needed, either
initially or over the useful life of the housing, by
elderly persons and children that the housing is
intended to serve; and
(E) provides a range of such services that are
tailored to the needs of elderly persons and children
occupying such housing.
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2018.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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