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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3501 

To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide 

assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide specialized housing and supportive services for elderly persons who are the primary 

caregivers of children that are related to such persons. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 14, 2013 

Mr. SERRANO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide assistance to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide specialized housing and supportive services for elderly persons who are the primary caregivers 

of children that are related to such persons. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Generational Resi5 dences and Nurturing Dwellings Act’’ or the ‘‘GRAND 

6 Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. HOUSING FOR ELDERLY CAREGIVERS. 

2 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 

3 Department of Housing and Urban Development a pro4 gram to provide assistance to eligible nonprofit organiza5 tions to expand the supply of specialized housing for quali6 fied relatives raising a child. 

7 (b) APPLICATION.—To receive assistance under the 

8 program under this section, an eligible nonprofit organiza9 tion shall submit an application to the Secretary at such 

10 time, in such manner, and containing such information as 

11 the Secretary may require, which in the case of an applica12 tion for assistance to be provided as described in sub13 section (e)(2) shall include such provisions ensuring co14 ordination with a public housing agency that will admin15 ister such assistance as the Secretary shall require. 

16 (c) NEED-BASED; COMPETITION.—Assistance pro17 vided under the program under this section shall be need18 based and made available on a competitive basis. 

19 (d) LIMIT ON ORGANIZATIONS SELECTED.—For each 

20 fiscal year, the Secretary may select not more than 5 eligi21 ble organizations to receive assistance under the program 

22 under this section. 

23 (e) FORMS OF ASSISTANCE.—Under the program 

24 under this section, assistance shall be made available in 

25 the following forms: 


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1 (1) NEW HOUSING.—Financing for the con2 struction, reconstruction, moderate or substantial re3 habilitation, or acquisition of a structure or a por4 tion of a structure to be used as specialized housing 

5 in accordance with the program. 

6 (2) RENTAL VOUCHER ASSISTANCE.—To pro7 vide tenant-based rental assistance under section 

8 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

9 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) for use only by qualified relatives 

10 who are raising a child and are eligible for such as11 sistance for rental of a dwelling unit that qualifies 

12 as specialized housing. 

13 (3) ELDERLY HOUSING PROJECT RENTAL AS14 SISTANCE.—To provide project rental assistance 

15 under section 202(b)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 

16 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(b)(2)) in connection with dwelling 

17 units that qualify as specialized housing and are 

18 made available for occupancy only by qualified rel19 atives who are raising a child and are eligible for oc20 cupancy in such housing; and notwithstanding any 

21 other provision of law, any qualified relative who is 

22 raising a child who is otherwise eligible for occu23 pancy in such housing may not be excluded from 

24 such occupancy because the household includes such 

25 child. 


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1 (4) OPERATIONAL EXPENSES AND SUPPORTIVE

2 SERVICES.—Assistance for ongoing operational ex3 penses of any specialized housing, including costs of 

4 supportive services required for such housing. 

5 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

6 In this Act: 

7 (1) CHILD.—The term ‘‘child’’ means an indi8 vidual who— 

9 (A) is not attending school and is not more 

10 than 18 years of age; or 

11 (B) is attending school and is not more 

12 than 19 years of age. 

13 (2) ELDERLY PERSON.—The term ‘‘elderly per14 son’’ means a person who is 60 years of age or 

15 more. 

16 (3) ELIGIBLE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION.— 

17 (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘eligible non18 profit organization’’ means an organization 

19 that— 

20 (i) provides specialized housing and 

21 social services for qualified relatives who 

22 are raising a child; and 

23 (ii) is described in section 501(c)(3) of 

24 the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is 


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1 exempt from tax under section 501(a) of 

2 such Code. 

3 (B) POLITICAL DIVISIONS INCLUDED.— 

4 Such term includes organizations that provide 

5 such services in each of the several States, the 

6 District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, 

7 territory, or possession of the United States. 

8 (4) QUALIFIED RELATIVE.— 

9 (A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘qualified 

10 relative’’ means, with respect to a child, an in11 dividual who is— 

12 (i) an elderly person; 

13 (ii) is not a parent of the child by 

14 blood or marriage; and 

15 (iii) is a relative of the child by blood 

16 or marriage. 

17 (B) ADOPTED CHILDREN.—In the case of 

18 a child who was adopted, the term includes an 

19 individual who, by blood or marriage, is a rel20 ative of the family who adopted the child. 

21 (5) RAISING A CHILD.—The term ‘‘raising a 

22 child’’ means, with respect to an individual, that the 

23 individual— 

24 (A) resides with the child; and 


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1 (B) is the primary caregiver (or is, to2 gether with a spouse or other household mem3 ber, a primary caregiver) for the child— 

4 (i) because the biological or adoptive 

5 parents of the child do not reside with the 

6 child or are unable or unwilling to serve as 

7 the primary caregiver for the child; and 

8 (ii) regardless of whether the indi9 vidual has a legal relationship to the child 

10 (such as guardianship or legal custody) or 

11 is caring for the child informally and has 

12 no such legal relationship with the child. 

13 (6) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

14 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

15 (7) SPECIALIZED HOUSING.—The term ‘‘spe16 cialized housing’’ means housing that— 

17 (A) is affordable (as the Secretary shall 

18 define for purposes of this Act) for low-income 

19 families (as such term is defined in section 3(b) 

20 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

21 U.S.C. 1437a(b)); 

22 (B) is restricted to occupancy only by low23 income families; 

24 (C) is designed to meet the special physical 

25 needs of elderly persons; 


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1 (D) accommodates the provision of sup2 portive services that are expected to be needed, 

3 either initially or over the useful life of the 

4 housing, by elderly persons and children that 

5 the housing is intended to serve; and 

6 (E) provides a range of such services that 

7 are tailored to the needs of elderly persons and 

8 children occupying such housing. 

9 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

10 There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 

11 this Act $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 

12 2018. 

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