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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8476 
To require the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Agri-
culture to submit annual reports to the Congress regarding dwelling 
units in assisted housing that fail property inspections, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 21, 2022 
Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment and Agriculture to submit annual reports to the 
Congress regarding dwelling units in assisted housing 
that fail property inspections, 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 ‘‘Housing Inspections 
Accountability Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS AND DATABASE REGARDING 
FAILED INSPECTIONS. 
(a) REPORTS.— 
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(1) CONTENTS.—Not later than the expiration 
of the 12-month period beginning on the date of the 
enactment of this Act and annually thereafter, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly submit to 
the Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate a re-
port— 
(A) identifying— 
(i) all inspections of covered prop-
erties conducted during the preceding 12 
months that resulted in a failing or unsat-
isfactory score for the property; 
(ii) the program under which such 
property was assisted at the time of the in-
spection; 
(iii) the defects and violations identi-
fied by the inspection and the status of re-
mediation with respect to such defects and 
violations; 
(iv) the number of households in such 
properties on waiting lists to be moved to 
a different unit, the reasons they need a 
different unit, the duration that they have 
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been on such a waiting list, and the typical 
duration before a household on such a 
waiting list is moved to a different unit or 
property; and 
(v) the number of covered properties 
with a failing score that have requested an 
appeal and the share of covered properties 
that were granted an appeal; and 
(B) including such other information that 
either such Secretary considers relevant. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—Each Secretary identified 
in paragraph (1) shall make the reports submitted 
pursuant to such paragraph publicly available online 
and shall ensure that the reports do not include any 
personally identifiable information. 
(3) COVERED PROPERTY.—For purposes of this 
subsection, the term ‘‘covered property’’ means any 
housing project that is provided rental assistance 
under a rental assistance program administered by 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or 
the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(b) DATABASE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the expira-
tion of the 12-month period beginning on the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretaries identi-
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fied in subsection (a)(1) shall jointly develop, and 
make publicly available online, a searchable database 
that enables the public to search, find, and download 
data regarding the inspection status and scores of 
individual housing projects provided rental assist-
ance under a rental assistance program administered 
by either such Secretary, information regarding de-
fects identified in individual housing projects, and 
information regarding whether such defects have 
been resolved. 
(2) UPDATING.—The Secretaries identified in 
subsection (a)(1) shall— 
(A) update the information in the database 
developed pursuant to paragraph (1) regularly 
to reflect current information regarding the sta-
tus and inspection scores for individual housing 
projects; and 
(B) ensure that the database is updated 
with any newly determined score for a project 
not later than 30 days after such score is deter-
mined. 
(3) PRIVACY PROTECTION.—The database de-
veloped pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not make 
available any personally identifiable information. 
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