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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 6318 

To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to identify 

and make available information regarding best practices utilizing mixedincome, publicly owned housing to increase the supply of affordable 

housing, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 8, 2023 

Ms. TLAIB (for herself and Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 

to identify and make available information regarding best 

practices utilizing mixed-income, publicly owned housing 

to increase the supply of affordable housing, and for 

other purposes. 

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 ‘‘Public Housing for 

5 the 21st Century Act of 2023’’. 

6 SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS. 

7 The Congress finds that— 


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1 (1) roughly half of renter households in the 

2 United States—more than 21 million—are cost-bur3 dened, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of 

4 their income on rent; 

5 (2) the greatest need for affordable housing is 

6 among people with extremely low incomes, 73 per7 cent of whom pay more than half of their income on 

8 rent; 

9 (3) however, the production of new affordable 

10 rental dwelling units is often constrained by the 

11 availability of Federal subsidies and too often exist12 ing Federal subsidies are not deeply targeted enough 

13 to serve households with the greatest needs; 

14 (4) faced with such constraints, State and local 

15 public developers are building dwelling units afford16 able to extremely low-, very low-, low-, and mod17 erate-income households by leveraging local policy 

18 tools, reforming zoning and land use restrictions, 

19 adopting innovative financing mechanisms, and uti20 lizing market rate units to cross-subsidize below21 market, affordable units; and 

22 (5) such mixed-income public housing promotes 

23 the financial stability and proper maintenance of 

24 housing developments, fosters community diversity 


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1 and integration, and allows scarce Federal subsidies 

2 to be targeted to the most vulnerable households. 

3 SEC. 3. TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REGARD4 ING MIXED-INCOME PUBLIC HOUSING BEST 

5 PRACTICES . 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the expiration of 

7 the 12-month period beginning on the date of the enact8 ment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 

9 Development shall— 

10 (1) identify best practices and models relevant 

11 to developing mixed-income, publicly owned housing 

12 to increase the supply of housing dwelling units that 

13 are affordable to extremely low-, very low-, low-, and 

14 moderate-income households, that provide perma15 nent affordability and that limit Federal subsidies to 

16 costs associated with building or preserving units af17 fordable to extremely low-income households; 

18 (2) among such best practices, identify policies 

19 that leverage State and local resources and capac20 ities, such as cross-subsidized developments, public 

21 land, public land banking, revolving loan funds, anti22 speculation taxes, property tax exemptions, commu23 nity opportunity to purchase statutes, public bank24 ing, acquisition pipelines for tax delinquent prop25 erties, municipally financed debt, and debt subsidies, 


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1 among other policies and financing tools or ap2 proaches; 

3 (3) identify complementary policies and pro4 grams that can address potential displacement pres5 sures and prevent adverse impacts on neighboring 

6 low and moderate-income households and commu7 nities; 

8 (4) provide guidance on how State and local 

9 governments and public developers can leverage Fed10 eral financing mechanisms and subsides to maximize 

11 the development and preservation of units affordable 

12 to extremely low-income households, both within 

13 mixed-income public housing and in other kinds of 

14 developments; 

15 (5) make available, to State and municipal gov16 ernments, local planning departments, public hous17 ing agencies (as such term is defined in section 3(b) 

18 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

19 U.S.C. 1437a(b))), State housing finance agencies 

20 (as such term is defined in section 802(b) of the 

21 Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 

22 (42 U.S.C. 1440(b))), and local housing finance 

23 agencies, information, training, and technical assist24 ance on such best practices and mechanisms; and 


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1 (6) make publicly available on the Department’s 

2 website such information, materials regarding such 

3 training and technical assistance, and case studies of 

4 best practices identified. 

5 (b) UPDATES.—The Secretary of Housing and Urban 

6 Development shall monitor mixed-income public housing 

7 practices as necessary to ensure that the information, 

8 training, and technical assistance made available pursuant 

9 to subsection (a) is current and shall update such informa10 tion, training, and technical assistance in a timely manner. 

11 (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

12 authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Housing 

13 and Urban Development such sums as may be necessary 

14 to carry out this Act. 

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