I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5894 
To provide funding for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program of the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency for housing-related assistance 
needed to prevent homelessness of families in connection with foreclosures 
on their residences. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 24, 2008 
Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To provide funding for the Emergency Food and Shelter 
Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
for housing-related assistance needed to prevent home-
lessness of families in connection with foreclosures on 
their residences. 
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 ‘‘Emergency Housing 
Assistance Act of 2008’’. 
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SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER 
PROGRAM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2008, 
$300,000,000 to remain available until expended, for 
grants under the Emergency Food and Shelter Program 
under title III of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331 et seq.). Of any amounts made 
available pursuant to this section not more than 3.5 per-
cent may be used for the costs of administration. 
(b) USES.—Notwithstanding section 313(a) of the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11343(a))— 
(1) grants to the Emergency Food and Shelter 
Program National Board (in this subsection referred 
to as the ‘‘National Board’’) made under this sec-
tion, and any monies received by any private non-
profit organization or local government from the Na-
tional Board from such amounts, may be used solely 
for housing-related assistance needed to prevent 
homelessness in connection with the foreclosure on a 
dwelling occupied by an eligible family, which shall 
include relocation expenses, security and utility de-
posits, mortgage payments, rent payments, utility 
payments, and other foreclosure or eviction preven-
tion expenses; 
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(2) an eligible family may receive assistance 
under this section for no more than 3 months; 
(3) assistance under this section shall be pro-
vided directly to mortgage servicers, property man-
agers, utility companies, or other entities necessary 
to prevent the homelessness of the eligible family; no 
funds shall be provided directly to the eligible family; 
and 
(4) to ensure that funds are only used for the 
purposes specified in paragraph (1), the National 
Board and any private nonprofit organization or 
local government receiving monies from the National 
Board shall maintain such monies in an account sep-
arate from other funds provided under the Emer-
gency Food and Shelter Program. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
(1) ELIGIBLE
FAMILY.—The term ‘‘eligible 
family’’ means a family, including a single-person 
family, that— 
(A) owns or rents a dwelling subject to 
foreclosure or a unit in a dwelling subject to 
foreclosure; 
(B) is legally responsible for the rent or 
mortgage payment on the dwelling subject to 
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foreclosure or a unit in the dwelling subject to 
foreclosure; and 
(C) does not have the financial resources 
to avoid becoming homeless if the dwelling the 
family occupies is foreclosed upon. 
(2) DWELLING.—The term ‘‘dwelling’’ means a 
property consisting of from one to four dwelling 
units, a multifamily property consisting of five or 
more dwelling units, or a dwelling unit in such a 
multifamily property. 
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