I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5814 
To transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty by revitalizing distressed 
housing, to reform public housing demolition and disposition rules to 
require one for one replacement and tenant protections, to provide public 
housing agencies with additional resources and flexibility to preserve 
public housing units, and to create a pilot program to train public 
housing residents to provide home-based health services. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 22, 2010 
Ms. WATERS (for herself, Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts, and Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Fi-
nancial Services 
A BILL 
To transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty by revital-
izing distressed housing, to reform public housing demoli-
tion and disposition rules to require one for one replace-
ment and tenant protections, to provide public housing 
agencies with additional resources and flexibility to pre-
serve public housing units, and to create a pilot program 
to train public housing residents to provide home-based 
health services. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Public Housing Reinvestment and Tenant Protection Act 
of 2010’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
TITLE I—CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE 
Sec. 101. Short title. 
Sec. 102. Findings and purposes. 
Sec. 103. Grant authority. 
Sec. 104. Eligible entities. 
Sec. 105. Eligible neighborhoods. 
Sec. 106. Authorized activities. 
Sec. 107. Submission and selection of transformation plans. 
Sec. 108. Right of residents to return; relocation. 
Sec. 109. One-for-one replacement of public and assisted housing dwelling 
units. 
Sec. 110. Other program requirements. 
Sec. 111. Demolition and disposition. 
Sec. 112. Phase-specific underwriting. 
Sec. 113. Administration by other entities. 
Sec. 114. Withdrawal of funding. 
Sec. 115. Annual report; public availability of grant information. 
Sec. 116. Definitions. 
Sec. 117. Funding. 
Sec. 118. Regulations. 
TITLE II—PUBLIC HOUSING ONE-FOR-ONE REPLACEMENT AND 
TENANT PROTECTION 
Sec. 201. Short title. 
Sec. 202. Demolition and disposition of public housing. 
Sec. 203. Authority to convert public housing to vouchers. 
Sec. 204. Required conversion of distressed public housing to tenant-based as-
sistance. 
Sec. 205. Regulations. 
TITLE III—PUBLIC HOUSING PRESERVATION AND 
REHABILITATION 
Sec. 301. Short title. 
Sec. 302. Leveraging of other assistance. 
Sec. 303. Capital Fund flexibility. 
Sec. 304. Grants for conversion of public housing projects to assisted living fa-
cilities. 
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TITLE IV—PILOT PROGRAM TO TRAIN PUBLIC HOUSING 
RESIDENTS TO PROVIDE HOME-BASED HEALTH SERVICES 
Sec. 401. Short title. 
Sec. 402. Findings and purpose. 
Sec. 403. Pilot grant program to train public housing residents to provide cov-
ered home-based health services. 
TITLE I—CHOICE 
NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Choice Neighborhoods 
Initiative Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 102. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— 
(1) the spatial concentration of poverty remains 
a serious and often unrecognized challenge to the 
ability of poor families and children to access oppor-
tunity and move up the economic ladder; 
(2) the HOPE VI program, authorized by sec-
tion 24 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437v), presented one model for trans-
forming neighborhoods of extreme poverty with se-
verely distressed housing into revitalized mixed-in-
come neighborhoods; 
(3) there remains a large amount of severely 
distressed public and privately owned assisted hous-
ing concentrated in neighborhoods of extreme pov-
erty; and 
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(4) a broader approach is now needed using 
concentrated and coordinated neighborhood invest-
ment from multiple sources to transform neighbor-
hoods of extreme poverty into communities that will 
improve the quality of life of current and future resi-
dents. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this title are to— 
(1) transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty 
into mixed-income neighborhoods by revitalizing se-
verely distressed housing, improving access to eco-
nomic opportunities, and investing and leveraging in-
vestments in well-functioning services, education 
programs, public assets, public transportation, and 
improved access to jobs; 
(2) provide for the one-for-one replacement of 
public and assisted housing dwelling units that are 
demolished or disposed of; 
(3) grow communities and metropolitan areas 
by concentrating, leveraging, and coordinating Fed-
eral, State, local, and private funding for public 
transportation, education, housing, energy, health 
and mental health services, supportive services, pub-
lic safety; and environmental programs and initia-
tives; 
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(4) support positive outcomes for displaced and 
returning residents, including improvements in edu-
cational achievements, and economic self-sufficiency; 
and 
(5) ensure that current residents benefit from 
transformation by preserving affordable housing in 
the neighborhood and, to the maximum extent pos-
sible, providing residents the choice to move to af-
fordable housing in another neighborhood of oppor-
tunity. 
SEC. 103. GRANT AUTHORITY. 
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may make competitive grants to eligible entities that sub-
mit transformation plans for eligible neighborhoods that 
will further the purposes of this title in such neighbor-
hoods. 
SEC. 104. ELIGIBLE ENTITIES. 
(a) PRIMARY APPLICANTS.—A grant under this title 
may be made only to a unit of local government, a public 
housing agency, or a nonprofit entity that owns a major 
housing project that is proposed to be assisted under a 
grant under this title, either as a sole applicant or as a 
co-applicant with another unit of local government or pub-
lic housing agency or with an entity specified in subsection 
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(b). A nonprofit entity may be a sole applicant only if the 
application has the support of a local government. 
(b) CO-APPLICANTS.— 
(1) 
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
CORPORA-
TIONS.—A community development corporation (as 
such term is defined in section 204(b) of the Depart-
ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1997 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–11a(b))) may, at 
the request of an entity specified in subsection (a), 
be a co-applicant for a grant under this title. 
(2) FOR-PROFIT ENTITIES.—A for-profit entity 
that owns a major housing project that is proposed 
to be assisted under a grant under this title and that 
has an established presence in the community may 
be a co-applicant for a grant under this title. 
(3) REQUIRED CO-APPLICANTS.—A grant under 
this title may not be made for an application that 
will involve transformation of a major public housing 
project unless the public housing agency having ju-
risdiction with respect to such project is the sole ap-
plicant or a co-applicant for such application. 
(c) PARTNERS.—Nothing in this section may be con-
strued to limit the ability of an applicant to partner with 
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