(H) the energy costs associated with public
housing units, with an emphasis on energy con-
servation;
(I) the costs of administering a public hous-
ing community work program under section 105,
including the costs of any related insurance
needs; and
(J) activities in connection with a home-
ownership program for public housing residents
under subtitle D, including providing financing
or assistance for purchasing housing, or the pro-
vision of financial assistance to resident man-
agement corporations or resident councils to ob-
tain training, technical assistance, and edu-
cational assistance to promote homeownership
opportunities.
(b) REQUIRED CONVERSION OF ASSISTANCE FOR PUB-
LIC HOUSING TO RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE.—
(1) REQUIREMENT.—A public housing agency
that receives grant amounts under this title shall pro-
vide assistance in the form of rental housing assist-
ance under title III, or appropriate site revitalization
or other appropriate capital improvements approved
by the Secretary, in lieu of assisting the operation
and modernization of any building or buildings of
public housing, if the agency provides sufficient evi-
dence to the Secretary that the building or build-
ings—
(A) are on the same or contiguous sites;
(B) consist of more than 300 dwelling units;
(C) have a vacancy rate of at least 10 per-
cent for dwelling units not in funded, on-sched-
ule modernization programs;
(D) are identified as distressed housing for
which the public housing agency cannot assure
the long-term viability as public housing through
reasonable revitalization, density reduction, or
achievement of a broader range of household in-
come; and
(E) have an estimated cost of continued op-
eration and modernization as public housing
that exceeds the cost of providing choice-based
rental assistance under title III for all families
in occupancy, based on appropriate indicators of
cost (such as the percentage of the total develop-
ment cost required for modernization).
Public housing agencies shall identify properties that
meet the definition of subparagraphs (A) through (E)
and shall consult with the appropriate public housing
residents and the appropriate unit of general local
government in identifying such properties.
(2) USE OF OTHER AMOUNTS.—In addition to
grant amounts under this title attributable (pursuant
to the formulas under section 204) to the building or
buildings identified under paragraph (1), the Sec-
retary may use amounts provided in appropriation
Acts for choice-based housing assistance under title
III for families residing in such building or buildings
or for appropriate site revitalization or other appro-
priate capital improvements approved by the Sec-
retary.
(3) ENFORCEMENT.—The Secretary shall take
appropriate action to ensure conversion of any build-
ing or buildings identified under paragraph (1) and
any other appropriate action under this subsection, if
the public housing agency fails to take appropriate
action under this subsection.
(4) FAILURE OF PHA’S TO COMPLY WITH CON-
VERSION REQUIREMENT.—If the Secretary determines
that—
(A) a public housing agency has failed
under paragraph (1) to identify a building or
buildings in a timely manner,
(B) a public housing agency has failed to
identify one or more buildings which the Sec-
retary determines should have been identified
under paragraph (1), or
(C) one or more of the buildings identified
by the public housing agency pursuant to para-
graph (1) should not, in the determination of the
Secretary, have been identified under that para-
graph,
the Secretary may identify a building or buildings for
conversion and take other appropriate action pursu-
ant to this subsection.
(5) CESSATION OF UNNECESSARY SPENDING.—
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if, in the
determination of the Secretary, a building or build-
ings meets or is likely to meet the criteria set forth
in paragraph (1), the Secretary may direct the public
housing agency to cease additional spending in con-
nection with such building or buildings, except to the
extent that additional spending is necessary to ensure
safe, clean, and healthy housing until the Secretary
determines or approves an appropriate course of ac-
tion with respect to such building or buildings under
this subsection.
(6) USE
OF
BUDGET
AUTHORITY.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, if a building or
buildings are identified pursuant to paragraph (1),
the Secretary may authorize or direct the transfer, to
the choice-based or tenant-based assistance program of
such agency or to appropriate site revitalization or
other capital improvements approved by the Sec-
retary, of—
(A) in the case of an agency receiving as-
sistance under the comprehensive improvement
assistance program, any amounts obligated by
the Secretary for the modernization of such
building or buildings pursuant to section 14 of
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (as in ef-
fect immediately before the effective date of the
repeal under section 601(b));
(B) in the case of an agency receiving pub-
lic housing modernization assistance by formula
pursuant to such section 14, any amounts pro-
vided to the agency which are attributable pur-
suant to the formula for allocating such assist-
ance to such building or buildings;
(C) in the case of an agency receiving as-
sistance for the major reconstruction of obsolete
projects, any amounts obligated by the Secretary
for the major reconstruction of such building or
buildings pursuant to section 5(j)(2) of the Unit-
ed States Housing Act of 1937, as in effect im-
mediately before the effective date of the repeal
under section 601(b); and
(D) in the case of an agency receiving as-
sistance pursuant to the formulas under section
204, any amounts provided to the agency which
are attributable pursuant to the formulas for al-
locating such assistance to such building or
buildings.
(7) RELOCATION
REQUIREMENTS.—Any public
housing agency carrying out conversion of public
housing under this subsection shall—
(A) notify the families residing in the pub-
lic housing development subject to the conversion,
in accordance with any guidelines issued by the
Secretary governing such notifications, that—
(i) the development will be removed
from the inventory of the public housing
agency; and
(ii) the families displaced by such ac-
tion will receive choice-based housing assist-
ance or occupancy in a unit operated or as-
sisted by the public housing agency;