I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6602 
To authorize funding of enriched resident services in federally assisted 
affordable housing, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 4, 2022 
Mr. AGUILAR (for himself, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. VEASEY, Mr. CARBAJAL, Mr. LIEU, Mr. LEVIN of Cali-
fornia, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mrs. TORRES of California, Ms. BASS, 
Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. BROWNLEY, and Mr. CA´RDENAS) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 
and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Ways 
and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize funding of enriched resident services in 
federally assisted affordable housing, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Affordable Housing 
Resident Services Act of 2022’’. 
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SEC. 
2. 
AFFORDABLE 
HOUSING 
RESIDENT 
SERVICES 
GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall annually award grants on a 
competitive basis to owners of qualified properties for use 
for eligible activities. 
(b) TERMS OF GRANT.—Grants awarded under this 
section shall be funded for a term of 5 years. 
(c) ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES.—Grants shall be used for 
activities that— 
(1) assist residents in obtaining health services 
and other community services; 
(2) provide after-school programs for children 
and teenage students, including mentoring, tutoring, 
college and career readiness, and life skills training; 
(3) enhance educational opportunities for youth 
and adult residents; 
(4) provide access to programs to assist resi-
dents with mental health or alcohol or addiction 
problems; 
(5) enhance residents’ economic self-sufficiency 
and empowerment, including providing employment 
resources; 
(6) prepare residents for home ownership; 
(7) provide residents assistance with financial 
literacy; 
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(8) assist older adults to enable them to age in 
place; or 
(9) assist residents with disabilities. 
(d) QUALIFIED PROPERTIES.—The term ‘‘qualified 
properties’’ means a property assisted under— 
(1) the low-income housing tax credit under 
section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; 
(2) the project-based rental assistance programs 
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937, including units assisted by project-based 
vouchers under section 8(o)(13) of such Act; 
(3) the program under section 236 of the Na-
tional Housing Act; 
(4) the below-market interest rate mortgage 
program under section 22(d)(3) of the National 
Housing Act; 
(5) the rural rental housing program under sec-
tion 515 of the Housing Act of 1949; 
(6) a program under title IV of the McKinney- 
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et 
seq.), but only permanent supportive housing 
projects subsidized under such programs; 
(7) section 1131 of Public Law 110–289; 
(8) the supportive housing for the elderly pro-
gram under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959; 
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