[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 468 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 468

To amend section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide 
for rental assistance payments to assist certain owners of manufactured 
       homes who rent the lots on which their homes are located.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 1997

  Mr. Filner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Banking and Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide 
for rental assistance payments to assist certain owners of manufactured 
       homes who rent the lots on which their homes are located.

    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 ``Mobile Home Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO UNITED STATES HOUSING ACT OF 1937.

    Section 8(j) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(j)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by inserting after ``such real 
        property'' the following; ``or to make assistance payments as 
        provided in paragraph (9) to the families owning the 
        manufactured homes''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(9) In the case only of a low-income family that owns a 
manufactured home, rents the real property on which it is located, and 
to whom assistance under this subsection has been made available, the 
public housing agency making such assistance available shall enter into 
a contract to make assistance payments under this subsection directly 
to the family (rather than to the owner of such real property) if--
            ``(1) the owner of the real property refuses to enter into 
        a contract to receive assistance payments pursuant to paragraph 
        (1)(A);
            ``(2) the family was residing in such manufactured home on 
        such real property at the time such assistance was initially 
        made available on behalf of the family;
            ``(3) the family provides such assurances to the agency, as 
        the Secretary may require, to ensure that amounts from the 
        assistance payments are used for rental of the real property; 
        and
            ``(4) the rental of the real property otherwise complies 
        with the requirements for assistance under this subsection.
A contract pursuant to this paragraph shall be subject to the 
provisions of paragraph (2) and any other provisions applicable to 
contracts under this subsection, except that the Secretary may provide 
such exceptions as the Secretary considers appropriate to facilitate 
the provision of assistance under this paragraph.''.
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