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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6318 
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to identify 
and make available information regarding best practices utilizing mixed- 
income, publicly owned housing to increase the supply of affordable 
housing, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 8, 2023 
Ms. TLAIB (for herself and Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
to identify and make available information regarding best 
practices utilizing mixed-income, publicly owned housing 
to increase the supply of 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 ‘‘Public Housing for 
the 21st Century Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds that— 
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(1) roughly half of renter households in the 
United States—more than 21 million—are cost-bur-
dened, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of 
their income on rent; 
(2) the greatest need for affordable housing is 
among people with extremely low incomes, 73 per-
cent of whom pay more than half of their income on 
rent; 
(3) however, the production of new affordable 
rental dwelling units is often constrained by the 
availability of Federal subsidies and too often exist-
ing Federal subsidies are not deeply targeted enough 
to serve households with the greatest needs; 
(4) faced with such constraints, State and local 
public developers are building dwelling units afford-
able to extremely low-, very low-, low-, and mod-
erate-income households by leveraging local policy 
tools, reforming zoning and land use restrictions, 
adopting innovative financing mechanisms, and uti-
lizing market rate units to cross-subsidize below- 
market, affordable units; and 
(5) such mixed-income public housing promotes 
the financial stability and proper maintenance of 
housing developments, fosters community diversity 
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and integration, and allows scarce Federal subsidies 
to be targeted to the most vulnerable households. 
SEC. 3. TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REGARD-
ING MIXED-INCOME PUBLIC HOUSING BEST 
PRACTICES . 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the expiration of 
the 12-month period beginning on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall— 
(1) identify best practices and models relevant 
to developing mixed-income, publicly owned housing 
to increase the supply of housing dwelling units that 
are affordable to extremely low-, very low-, low-, and 
moderate-income households, that provide perma-
nent affordability and that limit Federal subsidies to 
costs associated with building or preserving units af-
fordable to extremely low-income households; 
(2) among such best practices, identify policies 
that leverage State and local resources and capac-
ities, such as cross-subsidized developments, public 
land, public land banking, revolving loan funds, anti- 
speculation taxes, property tax exemptions, commu-
nity opportunity to purchase statutes, public bank-
ing, acquisition pipelines for tax delinquent prop-
erties, municipally financed debt, and debt subsidies, 
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among other policies and financing tools or ap-
proaches; 
(3) identify complementary policies and pro-
grams that can address potential displacement pres-
sures and prevent adverse impacts on neighboring 
low and moderate-income households and commu-
nities; 
(4) provide guidance on how State and local 
governments and public developers can leverage Fed-
eral financing mechanisms and subsides to maximize 
the development and preservation of units affordable 
to extremely low-income households, both within 
mixed-income public housing and in other kinds of 
developments; 
(5) make available, to State and municipal gov-
ernments, local planning departments, public hous-
ing agencies (as such term is defined in section 3(b) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437a(b))), State housing finance agencies 
(as such term is defined in section 802(b) of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 1440(b))), and local housing finance 
agencies, information, training, and technical assist-
ance on such best practices and mechanisms; and 
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