[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7901 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7901

 To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers 
           for high population areas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2024

Mr. Gallego (for himself and Ms. Titus) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers 
           for high population areas, 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 Vouchers Fairness Act''.

SEC. 2. RENTAL VOUCHERS FOR HIGH GROWTH POPULATION AREAS.

     Section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(23) Rental vouchers for high growth population areas.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall, each year, 
                using amounts appropriated pursuant to subparagraph 
                (B), provide additional assistance in an equitable 
                manner to each eligible public housing agency for 
                tenant-based assistance, based on the population in the 
                eligible public housing agency, the extent to which 
                existing voucher allocations of the eligible public 
                housing agency do not meet its housing affordability 
                needs, and historical shortfalls in providing 
                assistance to such eligible public housing agency as a 
                result of voucher formula allocations not keeping pace 
                with population growth over the period identified in 
                subparagraph (C)(ii).
                    ``(B) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
                authorized to be appropriated to Secretary to carry out 
                this paragraph $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2025, and 
                for renewals in each fiscal year thereafter.
                    ``(C) Eligible public housing agency defined.--For 
                the purposes of this paragraph, the term `eligible 
                public housing agency' means a public housing agency 
                that administers Federal housing assistance for an area 
                that, as determined by the Secretary--
                            ``(i) has a population of greater than 
                        100,000; and
                            ``(ii) is one of 25 areas in the United 
                        States that experienced the highest population 
                        growth between 2012 to 2022.''.
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