Housing Access Improvement Act

Housing Access Improvement Act

This bill increases from 20% to 50% the amount of funding for the Housing Choice Voucher program that a public housing agency (PHA) may use for project-based vouchers. (This program subsidizes rent for low-income recipients.)

Under current law, a PHA must use at least 80% of its funding for tenant-based vouchers (which subsidize recipients' rental of any private apartment that meets program guidelines) and may use up to 20% of its funding for project-based vouchers (which attach to a specific rental unit that the landlord commits to make available for voucher recipients for a contracted term).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8539 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8539

 To increase the percentage of authorized units that a public housing 
  agency may use for project-based assistance, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2022

Mr. Panetta (for himself, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Chu, Ms. Eshoo, Ms. Lee of 
  California, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Lofgren, and Mr. Swalwell) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial 
                                Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To increase the percentage of authorized units that a public housing 
  agency may use for project-based assistance, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Housing Access Improvement Act''.

SEC. 2. PROJECT-BASED ASSISTANCE .

    Section 8(o)(13)(B)(i) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) is amended by striking ``not more than 20 
percent'' and inserting ``not more than 50 percent''.
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