[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3313 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3313

 To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to consider 
   the availability of affordable housing in allocating amounts made 
   available for fiscal year 2017 for the Veterans Affairs-Supported 
                Housing program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2017

 Mr. Meadows introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to consider 
   the availability of affordable housing in allocating amounts made 
   available for fiscal year 2017 for the Veterans Affairs-Supported 
                Housing program, 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 ``Prioritize Housing for Homeless 
Veterans Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. CONSIDERATION OF AVAILABILITY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN MAKING 
              VASH FUNDS AVAILABLE.

    In making the amounts appropriated by paragraph (6) under the 
heading ``Public and Indian Housing--Tenant-Based Rental Assistance'' 
in title II of division K of Public Law 115-31 available among public 
housing agencies, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
consider as a factor, together with the factors identified in such 
paragraph (6), the extent of availability, in the area served by a 
public housing agency, of housing that is affordable to low-income 
families, giving priority to metropolitan areas having an efficiency 
fair market rent that has increased by more than 10 percent over the 
most recent 5-year period for which such information is available, as 
determined according to the Fair Market Rent Documentation System of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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