119-s1203

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1203 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 S. 1203

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 March 31, 2025

 Mr. Gallego (for himself, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Cortez Masto, and Mr. Kelly) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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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.--
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        (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 
 area served by the 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) .
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        (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, 
 which shall be available for renewals in each fiscal 
 year thereafter until expended.
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            (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
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            (ii) is one of 25 areas in the United 
 States that experienced the highest population 
 growth between 2012 to 2022.''.
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