3.0.0 2330 2023-01-11T14:50:58Z 2023-01-11T14:50:58Z Senate S S 2007-11-08 110 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-11-08T22:25:00Z Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act 110 4161 HR 2008-03-25 Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity. Related bill CRS 2007-11-08 ssbk00 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. IntroReferral 2007-11-08 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL N M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2007-11-08 True L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2008-08-01 False Housing and Community Development Armed Forces and National Security Families Family services Homeless Housing subsidies Low-income housing Nonprofit organizations Rent Social Welfare Veterans' benefits Housing and Community Development 00 2007-11-08 Introduced in Senate 2008-02-28T23:00:44Z Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to provide assistance to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives to expand the supply of supportive housing for certain very low-income veteran families.

Allows such assistance to be in the form of: (1) a grant for costs of planning a supportive housing project; (2) a capital advance for such project; and (3) project rental assistance.

Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to: (1) ensure that any housing assistance provided to veterans or veteran families includes a range of specified services tailored to the needs of very low-income veteran families; and (2) provide financial assistance for such services.

Requires HUD periodically to establish development cost limitations by market area for various types and sizes of such supportive housing.

Establishes a special housing account.

Requires the owner of such supportive housing to adopt HUD-approved tenant selection procedures.

]]> Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act Display Title Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize a pilot program within the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development with the goal of preventing at-risk veterans and veteran families from falling into homelessness, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act Introduced in Senate 2007-11-08T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2330is/xml/BILLS-110s2330is.xml 2007-11-08 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.