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(6) $15,000,000 shall be available to support the costs of 
administrative and judicial receiverships and for competitive 
grants to PHAs in receivership, designated troubled or sub-
standard, or otherwise at risk, as determined by the Secretary, 
for costs associated with public housing asset improvement, 
in addition to other amounts for that purpose provided under 
any heading under this title; and 
(7) $50,000,000 shall be available to support ongoing public 
housing financial and physical assessment activities: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or regulation, during fiscal year 2023, the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development may not delegate to any Department offi-
cial other than the Deputy Secretary and the Assistant Secretary 
for Public and Indian Housing any authority under paragraph (2) 
of section 9(j) of the Act regarding the extension of the time periods 
under such section: Provided further, That for purposes of such 
section 9(j), the term ‘‘obligate’’ means, with respect to amounts, 
that the amounts are subject to a binding agreement that will 
result in outlays, immediately or in the future. 
CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE 
For competitive grants under the Choice Neighborhoods Initia-
tive (subject to section 24 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) unless otherwise specified under this 
heading), for transformation, rehabilitation, and replacement 
housing needs of both public and HUD-assisted housing and to 
transform neighborhoods of poverty into functioning, sustainable, 
mixed-income neighborhoods with appropriate services, schools, 
public assets, transportation, and access to jobs, $350,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That grant 
funds may be used for resident and community services, community 
development, and affordable housing needs in the community, and 
for conversion of vacant or foreclosed properties to affordable 
housing: Provided further, That not more than 20 percent of the 
amount of any grant made with amounts made available under 
this heading may be used for necessary supportive services notwith-
standing subsection (d)(1)(L) of such section 24: Provided further, 
That the use of amounts made available under this heading shall 
not be deemed to be for public housing, notwithstanding section 
3(b)(1) of such Act: Provided further, That grantees shall commit 
to an additional period of affordability determined by the Secretary 
of not fewer than 20 years: Provided further, That grantees shall 
provide a match in State, local, other Federal, or private funds: 
Provided further, That grantees may include local governments, 
Tribal entities, public housing agencies, and nonprofit organizations: 
Provided further, That for-profit developers may apply jointly with 
a public entity: Provided further, That for purposes of environmental 
review, a grantee shall be treated as a public housing agency 
under section 26 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437x), and grants made with amounts available under 
this heading shall be subject to the regulations issued by the 
Secretary to implement such section: Provided further, That of 
the amounts made available under this heading, not less than 
$175,000,000 shall be awarded to public housing agencies: Provided 
further, That such grantees shall create partnerships with other
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local organizations, including assisted housing owners, service agen-
cies, and resident organizations: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall consult with the Secretaries of Education, Labor, 
Transportation, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Com-
merce, the Attorney General, and the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency to coordinate and leverage other appro-
priate Federal resources: Provided further, That not more than 
$10,000,000 of the amounts made available under this heading 
may be provided as grants to undertake comprehensive local plan-
ning with input from residents and the community: Provided fur-
ther, That unobligated balances, including recaptures, remaining 
from amounts made available under the heading ‘‘Revitalization 
of Severely Distressed Public Housing (HOPE VI)’’ in fiscal year 
2011 and prior fiscal years may be used for purposes under this 
heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts 
were appropriated: Provided further, That the Secretary shall make 
grant awards not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this Act in such amounts that the Secretary determines: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding section 24(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v(o)), the Secretary may, until 
September 30, 2023, obligate any available unobligated balances 
made available under this heading in this or any prior Act. 
SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAMS 
For activities and assistance related to Self-Sufficiency Pro-
grams, to remain available until September 30, 2026, $175,000,000: 
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading— 
(1) $125,000,000 shall be available for the Family Self- 
Sufficiency program to support family self-sufficiency coordina-
tors under section 23 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u), to promote the development of local 
strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under sections 
8 and 9 of such Act with public and private resources, and 
enable eligible families to achieve economic independence and 
self-sufficiency; 
(2) $35,000,000 shall be available for the Resident Oppor-
tunity and Self-Sufficiency program to provide for supportive 
services, service coordinators, and congregate services as 
authorized by section 34 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437z–6) and the Native American Housing 
Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 
et seq.): Provided, That amounts made available under this 
paragraph may be used to renew Resident Opportunity and 
Self-Sufficiency program grants to allow the public housing 
agency, or a new owner, to continue to serve (or restart service 
to) residents of a project with assistance converted from public 
housing to project-based rental assistance under section 8 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or 
assistance under section 8(o)(13) of such Act under the heading 
‘‘Rental Assistance Demonstration’’ in the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012 
(Public Law 112–55), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437f note); and 
(3) $15,000,000 shall be available for a Jobs-Plus Initiative, 
modeled after the Jobs-Plus demonstration: Provided, That 
funding provided under this paragraph shall be available for 
competitive grants to partnerships between public housing
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authorities, local workforce investment boards established 
under section 107 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act of 2014 (29 U.S.C. 3122), and other agencies and organiza-
tions that provide support to help public housing residents 
obtain employment and increase earnings: Provided further, 
That applicants must demonstrate the ability to provide serv-
ices to residents, partner with workforce investment boards, 
and leverage service dollars: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may allow public housing agencies to request exemptions 
from rent and income limitation requirements under sections 
3 and 6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437a, 1437d), as necessary to implement the Jobs-Plus pro-
gram, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may 
approve upon a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers 
or alternative requirements are necessary for the effective 
implementation of the Jobs-Plus Initiative as a voluntary pro-
gram for residents: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
publish by notice in the Federal Register any waivers or alter-
native requirements pursuant to the preceding proviso no later 
than 10 days before the effective date of such notice. 
NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
For activities and assistance authorized under title I of the 
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act 
of 1996 (in this heading ‘‘NAHASDA’’) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), 
title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) with respect to Indian tribes, and related 
training and technical assistance, $1,020,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the sums appro-
priated under this heading— 
(1) $787,000,000 shall be available for the Native American 
Housing Block Grants program, as authorized under title I 
of NAHASDA: Provided, That, notwithstanding NAHASDA, to 
determine the amount of the allocation under title I of such 
Act for each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the formula 
under section 302 of such Act with the need component based 
on single-race census data and with the need component based 
on multi-race census data, and the amount of the allocation 
for each Indian tribe shall be the greater of the two resulting 
allocation amounts: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
notify grantees of their formula allocation not later than 60 
days after the date of enactment of this Act; 
(2) $150,000,000 shall be available for competitive grants 
under the Native American Housing Block Grants program, 
as authorized under title I of NAHASDA: Provided, That the 
Secretary shall obligate such amount for competitive grants 
to eligible recipients authorized under NAHASDA that apply 
for funds: Provided further, That in awarding amounts made 
available in this paragraph, the Secretary shall consider need 
and administrative capacity, and shall give priority to projects 
that will spur construction and rehabilitation of housing: Pro-
vided further, That a grant funded pursuant to this paragraph 
shall be in an amount not greater than $7,500,000: Provided 
further, That any amounts transferred for the necessary costs
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of administering and overseeing the obligation and expenditure 
of such additional amounts in prior Acts may also be used 
for the necessary costs of administering and overseeing such 
additional amount; 
(3) $1,000,000 shall be available for the cost of guaranteed 
notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of 
NAHASDA: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 661a): Provided further, That amounts made available 
in this and prior Acts for the cost of such guaranteed notes 
and other obligations that are unobligated, including recaptures 
and carryover, shall be available to subsidize the total principal 
amount of any notes and other obligations, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $50,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2024: Provided further, That any 
remaining loan guarantee limitation authorized for this pro-
gram in fiscal year 2020 or prior fiscal years is hereby 
rescinded; 
(4) $75,000,000 shall be available for grants to Indian 
tribes for carrying out the Indian Community Development 
Block Grant program under title I of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1974, notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) 
of such Act, of which, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law (including section 203 of this Act), not more than 
$5,000,000 may be used for emergencies that constitute 
imminent threats to health and safety: Provided, That not 
to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with amounts made 
available in this paragraph shall be expended for planning 
and management development and administration; and 
(5) $7,000,000, in addition to amounts otherwise available 
for such purpose, shall be available for providing training and 
technical assistance to Indian tribes, Indian housing authori-
ties, and tribally designated housing entities, to support the 
inspection of Indian housing units, for contract expertise, and 
for training and technical assistance related to amounts made 
available under this heading and other headings in this Act 
for the needs of Native American families and Indian country: 
Provided, That of the amounts made available in this para-
graph, not less than $2,000,000 shall be for a national organiza-
tion as authorized under section 703 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 
4212): Provided further, That amounts made available in this 
paragraph may be used, contracted, or competed as determined 
by the Secretary: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code (commonly known 
as the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreements Act of 1977), 
the amounts made available in this paragraph may be used 
by the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with 
public and private organizations, agencies, institutions, and 
other technical assistance providers to support the administra-
tion of negotiated rulemaking under section 106 of NAHASDA 
(25 U.S.C. 4116), the administration of the allocation formula 
under section 302 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4152), and the 
administration of performance tracking and reporting under 
section 407 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4167).