Local Solutions to End Homelessness Act of 2021
This bill reallocates to urban counties, under certain circumstances, Emergency Solutions Grant funds to help individuals and families regain permanent housing after experiencing a housing crisis or homelessness.
Currently, the Department of Housing and Urban Development typically reallocates the funds to the state in which a city or county is located if the funds going to a recipient metropolitan city or urban county are less than a specified amount. The bill generally maintains this reallocation arrangement but also establishes certain circumstances when these funds must go to the urban county in which a recipient metropolitan city is located or to the recipient urban county directly.
An urban county receiving reallocated funds designated for a recipient metropolitan city must spend these funds for the benefit of the metropolitan cities located within the county.
[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 213 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 213
To modify the minimum allocation requirement for the emergency
solutions grants program.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 5, 2021
Mr. Sires introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Financial Services
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A BILL
To modify the minimum allocation requirement for the emergency
solutions grants program.
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 ``Local Solutions to End Homelessness
Act of 2021''.
SEC. 2. MINIMUM ALLOCATION REQUIREMENT FOR EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANTS
PROGRAM.
Section 414(b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 11373(b)) is amended to read as follows:
``(b) Minimum Allocation Requirement.--
``(1) In general.--If, under the allocation provisions
applicable under this subtitle, a metropolitan city or an urban
county would receive a grant of less than .05 percent of the
amounts appropriated under section 408 and made available to
carry out this subtitle for any fiscal year, such amount shall
be reallocated to the State in which the metropolitan city or
urban county, as applicable, is located, except that--
``(A) in the case of the metropolitan city, such
amount shall be reallocated to the urban county in
which the metropolitan city is located, if the urban
county--
``(i) has previously received and
administered assistance under this section; and
``(ii) agrees to receive such amount; and
``(B) in the case of the urban county, such amount
shall be provided to the urban county if the urban
county has previously received and administered
assistance under this section.
``(2) Exception.--Notwithstanding paragraph (1), a
metropolitan city shall receive the grant amount described such
paragraph if the metropolitan city--
``(A) is located in a State that does not have
counties as local governments;
``(B) has a population greater than 40,000 but less
than 50,000 as used in determining the fiscal year 1987
community development block grant program allocation;
and
``(C) was allocated in excess of $1,000,000 in
community development block grant funds in fiscal year
1987.
``(3) Amounts reallocated to urban counties.--An urban
county that receives amounts reallocated under paragraph (1)(A)
shall expend those amounts for the benefit of metropolitan
cities located in the urban county.''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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