[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5108 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5108

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 23, 2008

  Mr. Filner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on 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(o)(12) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f(o)(12)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting after ``, or to 
        (pursuant to subparagraph (C)),'' after ``on behalf of''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Assistance payments directly to family.--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 paragraph 
                has been made available, the public housing agency 
                making such assistance available shall enter into a 
                contract to make assistance payments under this 
                paragraph directly to the family (rather than to the 
                owner of such real property) if--
                            ``(i) the owner of the real property 
                        refuses to enter into a contract to receive 
                        assistance payments pursuant to this paragraph;
                            ``(ii) 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;
                            ``(iii) 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
                            ``(iv) the rental of the real property 
                        otherwise complies with the requirements for 
                        assistance under this paragraph.
                A contract pursuant to this subparagraph shall be 
                subject to the provisions of subparagraph (B) and any 
                other provisions applicable to contracts under this 
                paragraph, except that the Secretary may provide such 
                exceptions as the Secretary considers appropriate to 
                facilitate the provision of assistance under this 
                subparagraph.''.
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