S. 1481 

One Hundred Eleventh Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 

the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten 

An Act 

To amend section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act 

to improve the program under such section for supportive housing for persons 

with disabilities. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; REFERENCES. 

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Frank Melville 

Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010’’. 

(b) REFERENCES.—Except as otherwise expressly provided, 

wherever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in 

terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, section 811 or any other 

provision of section 811, the reference shall be considered to be 

made to section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 

Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013). 

SEC. 2. TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE. 

(a) RENEWAL THROUGH SECTION 8.—Section 811(d)(4) is 

amended to read as follows: 

‘‘(4) TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE.— 

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Tenant-based rental assistance provided under subsection (b)(1) shall be provided under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

U.S.C. 1437f(o)). 

‘‘(B) CONVERSION OF EXISTING ASSISTANCE.—There is 

authorized to be appropriated for tenant-based rental 

assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing 

Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for persons with disabilities 

an amount not less than the amount necessary to convert 

the number of authorized vouchers and funding under an 

annual contributions contract in effect on the date of enactment of the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment 

Act of 2010. Such converted vouchers may be administered 

by the entity administering the vouchers prior to conversion. For purposes of administering such converted 

vouchers, such entities shall be considered a ‘public housing 

agency’ authorized to engage in the operation of tenantbased assistance under section 8 of the United States 

Housing Act of 1937. 

‘‘(C) REQUIREMENTS UPON TURNOVER.—The Secretary 

shall develop and issue, to public housing agencies that 

receive voucher assistance made available under this subsection and to public housing agencies that received 

voucher assistance under section 8(o) of the United States 
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Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for non-elderly 

disabled families pursuant to appropriation Acts for fiscal 

years 1997 through 2002 or any other subsequent appropriations for incremental vouchers for non-elderly disabled 

families, guidance to ensure that, to the maximum extent 

possible, such vouchers continue to be provided upon turnover to qualified persons with disabilities or to qualified 

non-elderly disabled families, respectively.’’. 

(b) PROVISION OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary is 

authorized to the extent amounts are made available in future 

appropriations Acts, to provide technical assistance to public 

housing agencies and other administering entities to facilitate using 

vouchers to provide permanent supportive housing for persons with 

disabilities, help States reduce reliance on segregated restrictive 

settings for people with disabilities to meet community care requirements, end chronic homelessness, as ‘‘chronically homeless’’ is 

defined in section 401 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 

Act (42 U.S.C. 11361), and for other related purposes. 

SEC. 3. MODERNIZED CAPITAL ADVANCE PROGRAM. 

(a) PROJECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE CONTRACTS.—Section 811 is 

amended— 

(1) in subsection (d)(2)— 

(A) by inserting ‘‘(A) INITIAL PROJECT RENTAL ASSIST- ANCE CONTRACT.—’’ after ‘‘PROJECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE.— 

’’; 

(B) in the first sentence, by inserting after ‘‘shall’’ 

the following: ‘‘comply with subsection (e)(2) and shall’’; 

(C) by striking ‘‘annual contract amount’’ each place 

such term appears and inserting ‘‘amount provided under 

the contract for each year covered by the contract’’; and 

(D) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 

‘‘(B) RENEWAL OF AND INCREASES IN CONTRACT AMOUNTS.— ‘‘(i) EXPIRATION OF CONTRACT TERM.—Upon the expiration of each contract term, subject to the availability of 

amounts made available in appropriation Acts, the Secretary shall adjust the annual contract amount to provide 

for reasonable project costs, including adequate reserves 

and service coordinators as appropriate, except that any 

contract amounts not used by a project during a contract 

term shall not be available for such adjustments upon 

renewal. 

‘‘(ii) EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.—In the event of emergency situations that are outside the control of the owner, 

the Secretary shall increase the annual contract amount, 

subject to reasonable review and limitations as the Secretary shall provide.’’. 

(2) in subsection (e)(2)— 

(A) in the first sentence, by inserting before the period 

at the end the following: ‘‘, except that, in the case of 

the sponsor of a project assisted with any low-income 

housing tax credit pursuant to section 42 of the Internal 

Revenue Code of 1986 or with any tax-exempt housing 

bonds, the contract shall have an initial term of not less 

than 360 months and shall provide funding for a term 

of 60 months’’; and 
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(B) by striking ‘‘extend any expiring contract’’ and 

insert ‘‘upon expiration of a contract (or any renewed contract), renew such contract’’. 

(b) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—Section 811 is amended— 

(1) in subsection (e)— 

(A) by striking the subsection heading and inserting 

the following: ‘‘PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS’’; 

(B) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following new paragraph: 

‘‘(1) USE RESTRICTIONS.— ‘‘(A) TERM.—Any project for which a capital advance 

is provided under subsection (d)(1) shall be operated for 

not less than 40 years as supportive housing for persons 

with disabilities, in accordance with the application for 

the project approved by the Secretary and shall, during 

such period, be made available for occupancy only by very 

low-income persons with disabilities. 

‘‘(B) CONVERSION.—If the owner of a project requests 

the use of the project for the direct benefit of very lowincome persons with disabilities and, pursuant to such 

request the Secretary determines that a project is no longer 

needed for use as supportive housing for persons with 

disabilities, the Secretary may approve the request and 

authorize the owner to convert the project to such use.’’; 

and 

(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: 

‘‘(3) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—No assistance received 

under this section (or any State or local government funds 

used to supplement such assistance) may be used to replace 

other State or local funds previously used, or designated for 

use, to assist persons with disabilities. 

‘‘(4) MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS.— 

‘‘(A) LIMITATION.—Except as provided in subparagraph 

(B), of the total number of dwelling units in any multifamily 

housing project (including any condominium or cooperative 

housing project) containing any unit for which assistance 

is provided from a capital grant under subsection (d)(1) 

made after the date of the enactment of the Frank Melville 

Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010, the aggregate 

number that are used for persons with disabilities, 

including supportive housing for persons with disabilities, 

or to which any occupancy preference for persons with 

disabilities applies, may not exceed 25 percent of such 

total. 

‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—Subparagraph (A) shall not apply 

in the case of any project that is a group home or independent living facility.’’; and 

(2) in subsection (l), by striking paragraph (4). 

(c) DELEGATED PROCESSING.—Subsection (g) of section 811 (42 

U.S.C. 8013(g)) is amended— 

(1) by striking ‘‘SELECTION CRITERIA.—’’ and inserting 

‘‘SELECTION CRITERIA AND PROCESSING.—(1) SELECTION CRITERIA.—’’; 

(2) by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), 

and (7) as subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), (G), and (H), 

respectively; and 

(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 
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‘‘(2) DELEGATED PROCESSING.— 

‘‘(A) In issuing a capital advance under subsection (d)(1) 

for any multifamily project (but not including any project that 

is a group home or independent living facility) for which 

financing for the purposes described in the last sentence of 

subsection (b) is provided by a combination of the capital 

advance and sources other than this section, within 30 days 

of award of the capital advance, the Secretary shall delegate 

review and processing of such projects to a State or local 

housing agency that— 

‘‘(i) is in geographic proximity to the property; 

‘‘(ii) has demonstrated experience in and capacity for 

underwriting multifamily housing loans that provide 

housing and supportive services; 

‘‘(iii) may or may not be providing low-income housing 

tax credits in combination with the capital advance under 

this section; and 

‘‘(iv) agrees to issue a firm commitment within 12 

months of delegation. 

‘‘(B) The Secretary shall retain the authority to process 

capital advances in cases in which no State or local housing 

agency is sufficiently qualified to provide delegated processing 

pursuant to this paragraph or no such agency has entered 

into an agreement with the Secretary to serve as a delegated 

processing agency. 

‘‘(C) The Secretary shall— 

‘‘(i) develop criteria and a timeline to periodically assess 

the performance of State and local housing agencies in 

carrying out the duties delegated to such agencies pursuant 

to subparagraph (A); and 

‘‘(ii) retain the authority to review and process projects 

financed by a capital advance in the event that, after 

a review and assessment, a State or local housing agency 

is determined to have failed to satisfy the criteria established pursuant to clause (i). 

‘‘(D) An agency to which review and processing is delegated 

pursuant to subparagraph (A) may assess a reasonable fee 

which shall be included in the capital advance amounts and 

may recommend project rental assistance amounts in excess 

of those initially awarded by the Secretary. The Secretary shall 

develop a schedule for reasonable fees under this subparagraph 

to be paid to delegated processing agencies, which shall take 

into consideration any other fees to be paid to the agency 

for other funding provided to the project by the agency, 

including bonds, tax credits, and other gap funding. 

‘‘(E) Under such delegated system, the Secretary shall 

retain the authority to approve rents and development costs 

and to execute a capital advance within 60 days of receipt 

of the commitment from the State or local agency. The Secretary 

shall provide to such agency and the project sponsor, in writing, 

the reasons for any reduction in capital advance amounts or 

project rental assistance and such reductions shall be subject 

to appeal.’’. 

(d) LEVERAGING OTHER RESOURCES.—Paragraph (1) of section 

811(g) (as so designated by subsection (c)(1) of this section) is 

amended by inserting after subparagraph (E) (as so redesignated 

by subsection (c)(2) of this section) the following new subparagraph: 
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‘‘(F) the extent to which the per-unit cost of units 

to be assisted under this section will be supplemented 

with resources from other public and private sources;’’. 

(e) TENANT PROTECTIONS AND ELIGIBILITY FOR OCCUPANCY.— 

Section 811 is amended by striking subsection (i) and inserting 

the following new subsection: 

‘‘(i) ADMISSION AND OCCUPANCY.— 

‘‘(1) TENANT SELECTION.— ‘‘(A) PROCEDURES.—An owner shall adopt written tenant selection procedures that are satisfactory to the Secretary as (i) consistent with the purpose of improving 

housing opportunities for very low-income persons with 

disabilities; and (ii) reasonably related to program eligibility and an applicant’s ability to perform the obligations 

of the lease. Owners shall promptly notify in writing any 

rejected applicant of the grounds for any rejection. 

‘‘(B) REQUIREMENT FOR OCCUPANCY.—Occupancy in 

dwelling units provided assistance under this section shall 

be available only to persons with disabilities and households that include at least one person with a disability. 

‘‘(C) AVAILABILITY.—Except only as provided in 

subparagraph (D), occupancy in dwelling units in housing 

provided with assistance under this section shall be available to all persons with disabilities eligible for such occupancy without regard to the particular disability involved. 

‘‘(D) LIMITATION ON OCCUPANCY.—Notwithstanding any 

other provision of law, the owner of housing developed 

under this section may, with the approval of the Secretary, 

limit occupancy within the housing to persons with disabilities who can benefit from the supportive services offered 

in connection with the housing. 

‘‘(2) TENANT PROTECTIONS.— 

‘‘(A) LEASE.—The lease between a tenant and an owner 

of housing assisted under this section shall be for not 

less than one year, and shall contain such terms and conditions as the Secretary shall determine to be appropriate. 

‘‘(B) TERMINATION OF TENANCY.—An owner may not 

terminate the tenancy or refuse to renew the lease of 

a tenant of a rental dwelling unit assisted under this 

section except— 

‘‘(i) for serious or repeated violation of the terms 

and conditions of the lease, for violation of applicable 

Federal, State, or local law, or for other good cause; 

and 

‘‘(ii) by providing the tenant, not less than 30 

days before such termination or refusal to renew, with 

written notice specifying the grounds for such action. 

‘‘(C) VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION IN SERVICES.—A supportive service plan for housing assisted under this section 

shall permit each resident to take responsibility for 

choosing and acquiring their own services, to receive any 

supportive services made available directly or indirectly 

by the owner of such housing, or to not receive any supportive services.’’. 

(f) DEVELOPMENT COST LIMITATIONS.—Subsection (h) of section 

811 is amended— 

(1) in paragraph (1)— 
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(A) by striking the paragraph heading and inserting 

‘‘GROUP HOMES’’; 

(B) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘various types 

and sizes’’ and inserting ‘‘group homes’’; 

(C) by striking subparagraph (E); and 

(D) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) and (G) as 

subparagraphs (E) and (F), respectively; 

(2) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘established pursuant 

to paragraph (1)’’ after ‘‘cost limitation’’; and 

(3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 

‘‘(6) APPLICABILITY OF HOME PROGRAM COST LIMITATIONS.— 

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The provisions of section 212(e) of 

the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act 

(42 U.S.C. 12742(e)) and the cost limits established by 

the Secretary pursuant to such section with respect to 

the amount of funds under subtitle A of title II of such 

Act that may be invested on a per unit basis, shall apply 

to supportive housing assisted with a capital advance under 

subsection (d)(1) and the amount of funds under such subsection that may be invested on a per unit basis. 

‘‘(B) WAIVERS.—The Secretary may provide for waiver 

of the cost limits applicable pursuant to subparagraph (A)— 

‘‘(i) in the cases in which the cost limits established 

pursuant to section 212(e) of the Cranston-Gonzalez 

National Affordable Housing Act may be waived; and 

‘‘(ii) to provide for— 

‘‘(I) the cost of special design features to make 

the housing accessible to persons with disabilities; 

‘‘(II) the cost of special design features necessary to make individual dwelling units meet the 

special needs of persons with disabilities; and 

‘‘(III) the cost of providing the housing in a 

location that is accessible to public transportation 

and community organizations that provide supportive services to persons with disabilities.’’. 

(g) CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF WAIVER.—Section 811(k) 

is amended— 

(1) in paragraph (1), by adding the following after the 

second sentence: ‘‘Not later than the date of the exercise of 

any waiver permitted under the previous sentence, the Secretary shall notify the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 

Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial 

Services of the House of Representatives of the waiver or the 

intention to exercise the waiver, together with a detailed explanation of the reason for the waiver.’’; and 

(2) in paragraph (4)— 

(A) by striking ‘‘prescribe, subject to the limitation 

under subsection (h)(6) of this section)’’ and inserting ‘‘prescribe)’’; and 

(B) by adding the following after the first sentence: 

‘‘Not later than the date that the Secretary prescribes 

a limit exceeding the 24 person limit in the previous sentence, the Secretary shall notify the Committee on Banking, 

Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives of the limit or the intention to prescribe a limit 
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in excess of 24 persons, together with a detailed explanation 

of the reason for the new limit.’’. 

(h) MINIMUM ALLOCATION FOR MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS.—Paragraph (1) of section 811(l) is amended to read as follows: 

‘‘(1) MINIMUM ALLOCATION FOR MULTIFAMILY PROJECTS.— 

The Secretary shall establish a minimum percentage of the 

amount made available for each fiscal year for capital advances 

under subsection (d)(1) that shall be used for multifamily 

projects subject to subsection (e)(4).’’. 

SEC. 4. PROJECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE. 

Section 811(b) is amended— 

(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘is 

authorized—’’ and inserting ‘‘is authorized to take the following 

actions:’’; 

(2) in paragraph (1)— 

(A) by striking ‘‘(1) to provide tenant-based’’ and 

inserting ‘‘(1) TENANT-BASED ASSISTANCE.—To provide tenant-based’’; and 

(B) by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting a period; 

(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘(2) to provide assistance’’ 

and inserting ‘‘(2) CAPITAL ADVANCES.—To provide assistance’’; 

and 

(4) by adding at the end the following: 

‘‘(3) PROJECT RENTAL ASSISTANCE.— 

‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—To offer additional methods of 

financing supportive housing for non-elderly adults with 

disabilities, the Secretary shall make funds available for 

project rental assistance pursuant to subparagraph (B) for 

eligible projects under subparagraph (C). The Secretary 

shall provide for State housing finance agencies and other 

appropriate entities to apply to the Secretary for such 

project rental assistance funds, which shall be made available by such agencies and entities for dwelling units in 

eligible projects based upon criteria established by the Secretary. The Secretary may not require any State housing 

finance agency or other entity applying for such project 

rental assistance funds to identify in such application the 

eligible projects for which such funds will be used, and 

shall allow such agencies and applicants to subsequently 

identify such eligible projects pursuant to the making of 

commitments described in subparagraph (C)(ii). 

‘‘(B) CONTRACT TERMS.— 

‘‘(i) CONTRACT TERMS.—Project rental assistance 

under this paragraph shall be provided— 

‘‘(I) in accordance with subsection (d)(2); and 

‘‘(II) under a contract having an initial term 

of not less than 180 months that provides funding 

for a term 60 months, which funding shall be 

renewed upon expiration, subject to the availability 

of sufficient amounts in appropriation Acts. 

‘‘(ii) LIMITATION ON UNITS ASSISTED.—Of the total 

number of dwelling units in any multifamily housing 

project containing any unit for which project rental 

assistance under this paragraph is provided, the aggregate number that are provided such project rental 

assistance, that are used for supportive housing for 
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persons with disabilities, or to which any occupancy 

preference for persons with disabilities applies, may 

not exceed 25 percent of such total. 

‘‘(iii) PROHIBITION OF CAPITAL ADVANCES.—The Secretary may not provide a capital advance under subsection (d)(1) for any project for which assistance is 

provided under this paragraph. 

‘‘(iv) ELIGIBLE POPULATION.—Project rental assistance under this paragraph may be provided only for 

dwelling units for extremely low-income persons with 

disabilities and extremely low-income households that 

include at least one person with a disability. 

‘‘(C) ELIGIBLE PROJECTS.—An eligible project under this 

subparagraph is a new or existing multifamily housing 

project for which— 

‘‘(i) the development costs are paid with resources 

from other public or private sources; and 

‘‘(ii) a commitment has been made— 

‘‘(I) by the applicable State agency responsible 

for allocation of low-income housing tax credits 

under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code 

of 1986, for an allocation of such credits; 

‘‘(II) by the applicable participating jurisdiction that receives assistance under the HOME 

Investment Partnership Act, for assistance from 

such jurisdiction; or 

‘‘(III) by any Federal agency or any State or 

local government, for funding for the project from 

funds from any other sources. 

‘‘(D) STATE AGENCY INVOLVEMENT.—Assistance under 

this paragraph may be provided only for projects for which 

the applicable State agency responsible for health and 

human services programs, and the applicable State agency 

designated to administer or supervise the administration 

of the State plan for medical assistance under title XIX 

of the Social Security Act, have entered into such agreements as the Secretary considers appropriate— 

‘‘(i) to identify the target populations to be served 

by the project; 

‘‘(ii) to set forth methods for outreach and referral; 

and 

‘‘(iii) to make available appropriate services for 

tenants of the project. 

‘‘(E) USE REQUIREMENTS.—In the case of any project 

for which project rental assistance is provided under this 

paragraph, the dwelling units assisted pursuant to 

subparagraph (B) shall be operated for not less than 30 

years as supportive housing for persons with disabilities, 

in accordance with the application for the project approved 

by the Secretary, and such dwelling units shall, during 

such period, be made available for occupancy only by persons and households described in subparagraph (B)(iv). 

‘‘(F) REPORT.—Not later than 3 years after the date 

of the enactment of this paragraph, and again 2 years 

thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a 

report— 
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‘‘(i) describing the assistance provided under this 

paragraph; 

‘‘(ii) analyzing the effectiveness of such assistance, 

including the effectiveness of such assistance compared 

to the assistance program for capital advances set forth 

under subsection (d)(1) (as in effect pursuant to the 

amendments made by such Act); and 

‘‘(iii) making recommendations regarding future 

models for assistance under this section.’’. 

SEC. 5. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS. 

Section 811 is amended— 

(1) in subsection (a)— 

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

(B) in paragraph (2)— 

(i) by striking ‘‘provides’’ and inserting ‘‘makes 

available’’; and 

(ii) by striking the period at the end and inserting 

‘‘; and’’; and 

(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 

‘‘(3) promotes and facilitates community integration for 

people with significant and long-term disabilities.’’; 

(2) in subsection (c)— 

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘special’’ and inserting 

‘‘housing and community-based services’’; and 

(B) in paragraph (2)— 

(i) by striking subparagraph (A) and inserting the 

following: 

‘‘(A) make available voluntary supportive services that 

address the individual needs of persons with disabilities 

occupying such housing;’’; and 

(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking the comma 

and inserting a semicolon; 

(3) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘provided under’’ and 

all that follows through ‘‘shall bear’’ and inserting ‘‘provided 

pursuant to subsection (b)(1) shall bear’’; 

(4) in subsection (f)— 

(A) in paragraph (3)— 

(i) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘receive’’ and 

inserting ‘‘be offered’’; 

(ii) by striking subparagraph (C) and inserting 

the following: 

‘‘(C) evidence of the applicant’s experience in— 

‘‘(i) providing such supportive services; or 

‘‘(ii) creating and managing structured partnerships with service providers for the delivery of appropriate community-based services;’’; 

(iii) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘such persons’’ and all that follows through ‘‘provision of such 

services’’ and inserting ‘‘tenants’’; and 

(iv) in subparagraph (E), by inserting ‘‘other Federal, and’’ before ‘‘State’’; and 

(B) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘special’’ and inserting 

‘‘housing and community-based services’’; 

(5) in subsection (g), in paragraph (1) (as so redesignated 

by section 3(c)(1) of this Act)— 
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(A) in subparagraph (D) (as so redesignated by section 

3(c)(2) of this Act), by striking ‘‘the necessary supportive 

services will be provided’’ and inserting ‘‘appropriate supportive services will be made available’’; and 

(B) by striking subparagraph (E) (as so redesignated 

by section 3(c)(2) of this Act) and inserting the following: 

‘‘(E) the extent to which the location and design of 

the proposed project will facilitate the provision of community-based supportive services and address other basic 

needs of persons with disabilities, including access to appropriate and accessible transportation, access to community 

services agencies, public facilities, and shopping;’’; 

(6) in subsection (j)— 

(A) by striking paragraph (4); and 

(B) by redesignating paragraphs (5), (6), and (7) as 

paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), respectively; 

(7) in subsection (k)— 

(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the period 

at the end of the first sentence the following: ‘‘, which 

provides a separate bedroom for each tenant of the residence’’; 

(B) in paragraph (2), by striking the first sentence, 

and inserting the following: ‘‘The term ‘person with disabilities’ means a household composed of one or more persons 

who is 18 years of age or older and less than 62 years 

of age, and who has a disability.’’; 

(C) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following new paragraph: 

‘‘(3) The term ‘supportive housing for persons with disabilities’ means dwelling units that— 

‘‘(A) are designed to meet the permanent housing needs 

of very low-income persons with disabilities; and 

‘‘(B) are located in housing that make available supportive services that address the individual health, mental 

health, or other needs of such persons.’’; 

(D) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘a project for’’; and 

(E) in paragraph (6)— 

(i) by inserting after and below subparagraph (D) 

the matter to be inserted by the amendment made 

by section 841 of the American Homeownership and 

Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (Public Law 106– 

569; 114 Stat. 3022); and 

(ii) in the matter inserted by the amendment made 

by subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, by striking 

‘‘wholly owned and’’; and 

(8) in subsection (l)— 

(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘subsection (c)(1)’’ 

and inserting ‘‘subsection (d)(1)’’; and 

(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘subsection (c)(2)’’ 

and inserting ‘‘subsection (d)(2)’’. 

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

Subsection (m) of section 811 is amended to read as follows: 

‘‘(m) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated for providing assistance pursuant to this 

section $300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015.’’. 
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SEC. 7. GAO STUDY. 

The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct 

a study of the supportive housing for persons with disabilities 

program under section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 

Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013) to determine the adequacy 

and effectiveness of such program in assisting households of persons 

with disabilities. Such study shall determine— 

(1) the total number of households assisted under such 

program; 

(2) the extent to which households assisted under other 

programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development that provide rental assistance or rental housing would 

be eligible to receive assistance under such section 811 program; 

and 

(3) the extent to which households described in paragraph 

(2) who are eligible for, but not receiving, assistance under 

such section 811 program are receiving supportive services 

from, or assisted by, the Department of Housing and Urban 

Development other than through the section 811 program 

(including under the Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency 

program) or from other sources. 

Upon the completion of the study required under this section, 

the Comptroller General shall submit a report to the Congress 

setting forth the findings and conclusions of the study. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.