H. R. 7148—211 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of tenant-based 
rental assistance authorized under the United States Housing Act 
of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (in this heading 
‘‘the Act’’), not otherwise provided for, $34,438,557,000, to remain 
available until expended, which shall be available on October 1, 
2025 (in addition to the $4,000,000,000 previously appropriated 
under this heading that shall be available on October 1, 2025), 
and $4,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, which shall 
be available on October 1, 2026: Provided, That of the sums appro-
priated under this heading— 
(1) $34,957,000,000 shall be available for renewals of 
expiring section 8 tenant-based annual contributions contracts 
(including renewals of enhanced vouchers under any provision 
of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the 
Act) and including renewal of other special purpose incremental 
vouchers: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, from amounts provided under this paragraph and any 
carryover, the Secretary for the calendar year 2026 funding 
cycle shall provide renewal funding for each public housing 
agency based on validated voucher management system (VMS) 
or successor system leasing and cost data for the prior calendar 
year and by applying an inflation factor as established by 
the Secretary, by notice published in the Federal Register, 
and by making any necessary adjustments for the costs associ-
ated with the first-time renewal of vouchers under this para-
graph including tenant protection and choice neighborhoods 
vouchers: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
under this paragraph may be used to fund a total number 
of unit months under lease which exceeds a public housing 
agency’s authorized level of units under contract, except for 
public housing agencies participating in the moving to work 
(MTW) demonstration, which are instead governed in accord-
ance with the requirements of the MTW demonstration program 
or their MTW agreements, if any, or as necessary on a tem-
porary basis and within available resources to facilitate the 
transition of residents assisted by emergency housing vouchers 
(Public Law 117–2; 135 Stat. 58) to tenant-based rental assist-
ance under the housing assistance payment contract under 
section 8(o) of the Act: Provided further, That any leasing 
or associated costs authorized for emergency housing vouchers 
in the preceding proviso above the public housing agency’s 
authorized level of units under contract shall not be included 
in the calculation of the agency’s renewal funding allocation 
for any subsequent fiscal year: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall, to the extent necessary to stay within the amount 
specified under this paragraph (except as otherwise modified 
under this paragraph), prorate each public housing agency’s 
allocation otherwise established pursuant to this paragraph: 
Provided further, That except as provided in the following pro-
visos, the entire amount specified under this paragraph (except 
as otherwise modified under this paragraph) shall be obligated 
to the public housing agencies based on the allocation and 
pro rata method described above, and the Secretary shall notify
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public housing agencies of their annual budget by the latter 
of 60 days after enactment of this Act or March 1, 2026: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may extend the notifica-
tion period only after the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations are notified at least 10 business days in advance 
of the deadline: Provided further, That public housing agencies 
participating in the MTW demonstration shall be funded in 
accordance with the requirements of the MTW demonstration 
program or their MTW agreements, if any, and shall be subject 
to the same pro rata adjustments under the preceding provisos: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may perform a statutory 
offset of public housing agencies’ calendar year 2026 allocations 
based on the excess amounts of public housing agencies’ net 
restricted assets accounts, including HUD-held programmatic 
reserves (in accordance with VMS or successor system data 
in calendar year 2025 that is verifiable and complete), as deter-
mined by the Secretary: Provided further, That public housing 
agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall also 
be subject to the statutory offset: Provided further, That for 
amounts subject to the single fund budget authority provisions 
of their MTW agreements, excess amounts shall be offset only 
to the extent permitted by section 239 of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2016 (Public Law 114–113): Provided fur-
ther, That for public housing agencies in the MTW demonstra-
tion subject to single fund budget authority provisions, the 
Secretary shall provide not less than 60 days to appeal such 
offsets and shall not offset amounts that have been committed 
to capital improvement, development, and other repositioning 
activities that are scheduled to close within 12 months of enact-
ment of this Act, as evidenced in funding applications, project 
schedules, or other commitments to third parties implementing 
such activities, to the extent that reserve amounts excluded 
from offset under such section 239 are insufficient to cover 
such commitments: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
not offset any portion of a public housing agency’s excess 
amounts if offsetting such portion would result in a public 
housing agency being put in a shortfall position in calendar 
year 2026, as estimated by HUD prior to the offset’s 
implementation, as determined by the Secretary: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall use any such offset amounts 
referred to in the preceding five provisos throughout the cal-
endar year to prevent the termination of rental assistance 
for families as the result of insufficient funding, as determined 
by the Secretary, and to avoid or reduce the proration of 
renewal funding allocations: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may waive or specify alternative requirements for section 
5A and section 8(o) of the Act or any regulation applicable 
to such statutes related to the administration of waiting lists, 
local preferences, portability, and public housing agency plan 
and public hearing requirements to facilitate or expedite the 
transition of residents assisted by emergency housing vouchers 
(Public Law 117–2; 135 Stat. 58) to tenant-based rental assist-
ance under the housing assistance payment contract under 
section 8(o) of the Act: Provided further, That up to 
$400,000,000 shall be available only: 
(A) for adjustments in the allocations for public housing 
agencies, after application for an adjustment by a public
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housing agency that experienced a significant increase, as 
determined by the Secretary, in renewal costs of vouchers 
resulting from unforeseen circumstances or from portability 
under section 8(r) of the Act; 
(B) for vouchers that were not in use during the pre-
vious 12-month period in order to be available to meet 
a commitment pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of the Act, or 
an adjustment for a funding obligation not yet expended 
in the previous calendar year for a MTW-eligible activity 
to develop affordable housing for an agency added to the 
MTW demonstration under the expansion authority pro-
vided in section 239 of the Transportation, Housing and 
Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2016 (division L of Public Law 114–113); 
(C) for adjustments for costs associated with HUD– 
Veterans 
Affairs 
Supportive 
Housing 
(HUD–VASH) 
vouchers; 
(D) for public housing agencies that despite taking 
reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the 
Secretary, would otherwise be required to terminate rental 
assistance for families as a result of insufficient funding; 
(E) for adjustments in the allocations for public housing 
agencies that— 
(i) are leasing a lower-than-average percentage of 
their authorized vouchers, 
(ii) have low amounts of budget authority in their 
net restricted assets accounts and HUD-held pro-
grammatic reserves, relative to other agencies, and 
(iii) are not participating in the MTW demonstra-
tion, to enable such agencies to lease more vouchers; 
(F) for withheld payments in accordance with section 
8(o)(8)(A)(ii) of the Act for months in the previous calendar 
year that were subsequently paid by the public housing 
agency after the agency’s actual costs were validated; 
(G) for public housing agencies that have experienced 
increased costs or loss of units in an area for which the 
President declared a disaster under title IV of the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5170 et seq.); and 
(H) for costs associated with mainstream vouchers: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate amounts 
under the preceding proviso based on need, as determined 
by the Secretary; 
(2) $600,622,000 shall be available for section 8 rental 
assistance for relocation and replacement of housing units that 
are demolished or disposed of pursuant to section 18 of the 
Act, conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under section 
8, relocation of witnesses (including victims of violent crimes) 
in connection with efforts to combat crime in public and assisted 
housing pursuant to a request from a law enforcement or 
prosecution agency, enhanced vouchers under any provision 
of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the 
Act, choice neighborhood vouchers, mandatory and voluntary 
conversions, and tenant protection assistance including replace-
ment and relocation assistance or for project-based assistance 
to prevent the displacement of unassisted elderly tenants cur-
rently residing in section 202 properties financed between 1959
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and 1974 that are refinanced pursuant to Public Law 106– 
569, as amended, or under the authority as provided under 
this Act: Provided, That when a public housing development 
is submitted for demolition or disposition under section 18 
of the Act, the Secretary may provide section 8 rental assistance 
when the units pose an imminent health and safety risk to 
residents: Provided further, That the Secretary may provide 
section 8 rental assistance from amounts made available under 
this paragraph for units assisted under a project-based subsidy 
contract funded under the ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’’ 
heading under this title where the owner has received a Notice 
of Default and the units pose an imminent health and safety 
risk to residents: Provided further, That of the amounts made 
available under this paragraph, no less than $5,000,000 may 
be available to provide tenant protection assistance, not other-
wise provided under this paragraph, to residents residing in 
low vacancy areas and who may have to pay rents greater 
than 30 percent of household income, as the result of: (A) 
the maturity of a HUD-insured, HUD-held or section 202 loan 
that requires the permission of the Secretary prior to loan 
prepayment; (B) the expiration of a rental assistance contract 
for which the tenants are not eligible for enhanced voucher 
or tenant protection assistance under existing law; or (C) the 
expiration of affordability restrictions accompanying a mortgage 
or preservation program administered by the Secretary: Pro-
vided further, That such tenant protection assistance made 
available under the preceding proviso may be provided under 
the authority of section 8(t) or section 8(o)(13) of the Act: 
Provided further, That any tenant protection voucher made 
available from amounts under this paragraph shall not be 
reissued by any public housing agency, except the replacement 
vouchers as defined by the Secretary by notice, when the initial 
family that received any such voucher no longer receives such 
voucher, and the authority for any public housing agency to 
issue any such voucher shall cease to exist: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may only provide replacement vouchers 
for units that were occupied within the previous 24 months 
that cease to be available as assisted housing, subject only 
to the availability of funds: Provided further, That amounts 
made available under this paragraph may be available to pro-
vide calendar year 2026 assistance to public housing agencies 
that would otherwise be required to terminate emergency 
housing vouchers (Public Law 117–2; 135 Stat. 58) for families 
as a result of insufficient funding; 
(3) $2,835,935,000 shall be available for administrative and 
other expenses of public housing agencies in administering 
the section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program, of which 
up to $30,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to allocate 
to public housing agencies that need additional funds to admin-
ister their section 8 programs, including fees associated with 
section 8 tenant protection rental assistance, the administration 
of disaster related vouchers, HUD–VASH vouchers, and other 
special purpose incremental vouchers: Provided, That no less 
than $2,805,935,000 of the amount provided in this paragraph 
shall be allocated to public housing agencies for the calendar 
year 2026 funding cycle based on section 8(q) of the Act (and 
related appropriations Act provisions) as in effect immediately