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70 percent of extremely low-income households are se-
verely cost-burdened, paying more than half of their in-
come for housing; 
Whereas rapidly rising rents across the country have pushed 
many long-time residents and families out of the commu-
nities they call home; 
Whereas 3 out of every 4 families in need of housing assist-
ance are turned away due to chronic underfunding; 
Whereas the role of Federal affordable housing investment is 
even more important given the limited ability of the pri-
vate market alone to address these needs; 
Whereas various programs at the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development provide Federal rental assist-
ance, which helps about 10,400,000 people in 5,200,000 
households, including helping nearly 6,300,000 families 
with children avoid homelessness; 
Whereas such programs include the Public Housing program, 
the section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) program, 
the section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance program, 
the section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly pro-
gram, the section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons 
with Disabilities program, and the Housing Opportunities 
for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program; 
Whereas despite leveraging billions of dollars in private re-
sources to preserve and expand the supply of affordable 
housing, affordable housing programs continue to be 
chronically underfunded despite their success at providing 
safe housing to families in need; 
Whereas chronic underfunding of the Public Housing Capital 
Fund has led to a backlog of up to $70,000,000,000 in 
capital repairs and deteriorating conditions for residents; 
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Whereas without Federal investments, many more families 
would be homeless, living in substandard or overcrowded 
conditions, or struggling to meet other basic needs be-
cause too much of their limited income would be used to 
pay rent; 
Whereas the impact of the COVID–19 pandemic was exacer-
bated by the lack of an effective housing safety net, 
which created challenges for the public health strategy of 
urging people to stay home to avoid contagion; 
Whereas, due to the pandemic, an even greater number of 
people 
are 
precariously 
housed, 
with 
more 
than 
6,000,000 households behind on their rent; 
Whereas severe delays in the distribution of emergency rental 
assistance provided during the pandemic has created ad-
ditional unnecessary hardship for both renters and prop-
erty owners; 
Whereas even renters with housing subsidies often face bar-
riers to finding housing providers willing to rent to them; 
Whereas under current Federal law, housing discrimination 
against a renter is illegal if it is based on race, color, reli-
gion, sex, familial status, national origin, or disability; 
Whereas 68,000,000 Americans believe they have been treat-
ed differently in their search for housing based on their 
race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, 
or disability; 
Whereas renters and others experiencing housing need should 
be protected against housing discrimination through 
stronger enforcement of fair housing laws; and 
Whereas despite various clarifying guidance from HUD, the 
reentry community continues to face barriers in trying to 
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secure access to federally assisted housing: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports a significant investment in housing 
resources to build and preserve affordable housing 
for America’s poorest families and to end homeless-
ness and housing poverty once and for all; 
(2) supports robustly funding programs to in-
crease access to affordable housing and address 
homelessness at the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development and other Federal agencies; 
(3) supports including in any comprehensive in-
frastructure and economic recovery package housing 
investments to serve families with the lowest in-
comes, including— 
(A) $70,000,000,000 in funding for the 
Public Housing Capital Fund to address the 
backlog of capital repairs for public housing; 
(B) not less than $45,000,000,000 for the 
National Housing Trust Fund to boost the sup-
ply of affordable housing available to extremely 
low-income families; and 
(C) $180,000,000,000 for rental assistance 
to help families afford to keep roofs over their 
heads; 
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(4) affirms that renters may not be barred from 
federally assisted housing solely on the basis of a 
criminal record; 
(5) supports expansion of renters’ rights, in-
cluding the right of tenants to organize tenant asso-
ciations; and 
(6) affirms that housing is a basic human right. 
Æ 
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