(G) Part 964 of title 24, Code of Federal 
regulations (relating to tenant participation and 
opportunities). 
(3) RETENTION
OF
RIGHTS.—Tenants occu-
pying a replacement housing unit shall have all 
rights provided to tenants of the housing from which 
the tenants were relocated. 
(4) SIZE.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Replacement units shall 
be of comparable size, unless a market analysis 
shows a need for other-sized units, in which 
case such need shall be addressed. 
(B) BEDROOMS.—The number of bed-
rooms within each replacement unit shall be 
sufficient to serve families displaced as a result 
of the demolition or disposition. 
(5) LOCATION ON SITE.—At least one-third of 
all replacement units for public and assisted housing 
units demolished shall be public or assisted housing 
units constructed within the immediate area of the 
original public or assisted housing location, unless 
the Secretary determines that— 
(A) construction on such location would re-
sult in the violation of a consent decree; or 
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(B) the land on which the public and as-
sisted housing is located is environmentally un-
safe or geologically unstable. 
(6) LOCATION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.—Any 
replacement housing units provided in addition to 
dwelling units provided pursuant to paragraph (5) 
shall— 
(A) be provided in areas within the neigh-
borhood, except that if rebuilding the units 
within the neighborhood is not feasible, units 
shall be provided within the jurisdiction of the 
public housing agency— 
(i) in a manner that furthers the eco-
nomic and educational opportunities for 
residents; and 
(ii) in areas offering access to public 
transportation; and 
(B) have access to social, recreational, edu-
cational, commercial, and health facilities and 
services, including municipal services and facili-
ties, that are comparable to services provided to 
the revitalized neighborhood from which resi-
dents were displaced. 
(7) LOCATION OUTSIDE OF JURISDICTION.—If 
rebuilding replacement housing units within the ju-
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risdiction, in a manner that complies with the re-
quirements of clauses (i) through (iv) of subpara-
graph (A) and subparagraph (B) of paragraph (6) 
is not feasible, units may be provided outside of the 
jurisdiction of the public housing agency, but within 
the metropolitan area of such jurisdiction, provided 
the grantee requests, and the public housing agency 
or unit of local government in which such units shall 
be located, agrees to such transfer of units. All such 
units shall comply with the requirements of clauses 
(i) through (iv) of subparagraph (A) and subpara-
graph (B) of paragraph (6). 
(b) WAIVER.— 
(1) AUTHORITY.—Upon the written request of 
an applicant for a grant under this Act submitted as 
part of the transformation plan pursuant to section 
6, the Secretary may reduce the percentage applica-
ble under subsection (a)(1) to the transformation 
plan of the applicant to not less than 90 percent, 
but only if— 
(A) a judgment, consent decree, or other 
order of a court limits the ability of the appli-
cant to comply with such requirements; or 
(B) the applicant demonstrates that there 
is an excess supply of affordable rental housing 
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in areas of low poverty and provides data show-
ing that, in the area surrounding the revitalized 
neighborhood— 
(i) at least 90 percent of vouchers 
issued under section 8(o) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 over the last 
24 months to comparable families were 
successfully used to lease a dwelling unit 
within 120 days of issuance or, if a suffi-
cient number of comparable families have 
not received vouchers, an alternative meas-
ure, as the Secretary shall design, is met; 
(ii) existing voucher holders are widely 
dispersed geographically in areas of low 
poverty with access to public transpor-
tation, education, and other amenities, as 
determined by the Secretary, among the 
available private rental housing stock; and 
(iii) the applicant provides a market 
analysis demonstrating that— 
(I) there is a relatively high va-
cancy rate among units that would 
meet or exceed housing quality stand-
ards, as determined by the Secretary, 
within the market area with rent and 
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utility costs not exceeding the applica-
ble payment standard under section 
8(o) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)); and 
(II) such high vacancy rate with-
in the market area is expected to con-
tinue for the next 5 years or longer. 
SEC. 9. OTHER PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) FAIR HOUSING.—The demolition or disposition, 
relocation, replacement, and re-occupancy of housing units 
in connection with a grant under this Act shall be carried 
out in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing, 
as required by section 808 of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 
(42 U.S.C. 3608(e)). Grantees shall adopt affirmative 
marketing procedures, and require affirmative marketing 
activities of project owners and managers. Such special 
outreach efforts shall be targeted to those who are least 
likely to apply for the housing, to ensure that all persons 
regardless of their race, color, national origin, religion, 
sex, disability, or familial status are aware of the housing 
opportunities in each project funded with a grant under 
this Act. 
(b) ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.—All new con-
struction and alterations of existing buildings carried out 
in connection with a grant under this Act shall comply 
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with the requirements of the section 504 of Rehabilitation 
Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794), the Accessibility Standards 
for Design, Construction, and Alteration of Publicly 
Owned Residential Structures of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development (24 C.F.R. part 40), the Fair 
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.), and any other re-
quirements as determined by the Secretary. 
(c) AFFORDABILITY REQUIREMENT.—Amounts from 
a grant under this Act may not be used for assistance 
for any housing property unless the owner of the property 
assisted agrees to a period of affordability for the property 
which shall be not shorter than the period of affordability 
to which the property is already subject and remains sub-
ject, or 20 years, whichever is longer. 
(d) COST LIMITS.—Subject to the provisions of this 
Act, the Secretary shall establish cost limits on eligible ac-
tivities under this Act sufficient to provide for effective 
transformation programs. 
(e) ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.—For purposes of en-
vironmental review, assistance and projects under this Act 
shall be treated as assistance for special projects that are 
subject to section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Prop-
erty Disposition Reform Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 3547), 
and shall be subject to the regulations issued by the Sec-
retary to implement such section. 
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(f) GRANTEE REPORTING.—The Secretary shall re-
quire grantees under this Act to report the sources and 
uses of all amounts expended and other information for 
transformation plans for the Secretary’s annual report to 
Congress or other purposes as determined by the Sec-
retary. 
SEC. 10. DEMOLITION AND DISPOSITION. 
(a) INAPPLICABILITY OF PUBLIC HOUSING DEMOLI-
TION
AND
DISPOSITION
REQUIREMENTS
TO
TRANS-
FORMATION PLAN.—The demolition or disposition of se-
verely distressed public housing pursuant to a trans-
formation plan approved under this Act shall be exempt 
from the provisions of section 18 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437p). 
(b) APPLICABILITY OF PUBLIC HOUSING DEMOLI-
TION AND DISPOSITION REQUIREMENTS TO REPLACE-
MENT PUBLIC HOUSING.—Nothing in this Act may be 
construed to exempt any replacement public housing 
dwelling units provided under a transformation plan in ac-
cordance with the requirements under section 8 (relating 
to one-for-one replacement of public housing dwelling 
units) from the provisions of section 18 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937. 
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SEC. 11. PHASE-SPECIFIC UNDERWRITING. 
To the extent that a transformation plan provides for 
different phases of activities, the Secretary may allow for 
the various phases of such plan to be underwritten on a 
separate basis. 
SEC. 12. ADMINISTRATION BY OTHER ENTITIES. 
The Secretary may require a grantee under this Act 
to make arrangements satisfactory to the Secretary for 
use of an entity other than the original grantee to carry 
out activities assisted under the transformation plan of the 
grantee, if— 
(1) the original grantee has failed to meet per-
formance benchmarks relating to implementation of 
the transformation plan; and 
(2) the Secretary determines that such action 
will help to effectuate the purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 13. WITHDRAWAL OF FUNDING. 
If a grantee under this Act does not proceed within 
a reasonable timeframe in implementing its trans-
formation plan or does not otherwise comply with the re-
quirements of this Act and the grant agreement, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, the Secretary may withdraw any 
grant amounts under this Act that have not been obligated 
by the grantee. The Secretary may redistribute any with-
drawn amounts to one or more other eligible entities capa-
ble of proceeding expeditiously in the same locality in car-
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rying out the transformation plan of the original grantee, 
or as such plan may be modified and approved by the Sec-
retary, or, if that is not feasible, to one or more other 
applicants that has already received assistance under this 
Act. 
SEC. 14. ANNUAL REPORT; PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF 
GRANT INFORMATION. 
(a) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not less than 90 days before 
the conclusion of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall sub-
mit to Committee on Financial Services of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs of the Senate a report on the imple-
mentation and status of grants awarded under this Act, 
which shall include— 
(1) the number, type, and cost of affordable 
housing units revitalized pursuant to this Act; 
(2) the amount and type of financial assistance 
provided under and in conjunction with this Act, in-
cluding a specification of the amount and type of as-
sistance provided for educational opportunities, serv-
ices, public assets, public transportation, and access 
to jobs; 
(3) the impact of grants made under this Act 
on the original residents, the target neighborhoods, 
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and the larger communities within which they are lo-
cated; 
(4) all information submitted to the Secretary 
pursuant to section 7(e)(1) by all grantees and sum-
maries of the extent of compliance by grantees with 
the requirements under subsections (a) and (g) of 
section 7; and 
(5) any information related to grantees imple-
mentation of the requirements under section 8 (re-
lating to one-for-one replacement of public housing 
dwelling units) and the efforts of the Secretary to 
coordinate funding pursuant to section 5(e)(3). 
(b) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY
OF GRANT INFORMA-
TION.—To the extent not inconsistent with any other pro-
visions of law, the Secretary shall make publicly available 
through a World Wide Website of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development all documents of, or 
filed with, the Department relating to the program under 
this Act, including applications, grant agreements, plans, 
budgets, reports, and amendments to such documents; ex-
cept that in carrying out this subsection, the Secretary 
shall take such actions as may be necessary to protect the 
privacy of any residents and households displaced from 
public or assisted housing as a result of a transformation 
plan assisted under a grant under this Act. 
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SEC. 15. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act, the following definitions 
shall apply: 
(1) AFFORDABLE HOUSING.—The term ‘‘afford-
able housing’’ includes— 
(A) public housing assisted under section 9 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437g); 
(B) assisted housing (as such term is de-
fined in this section); 
(C) housing assisted under an affordable 
housing program administered by the Secretary 
of Agriculture through Rural Housing Service; 
(D) rental housing that utilizes tax credits 
under section 42 or the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986; 
(E) affordable rental housing owned, devel-
oped, or assisted through a State or unit of 
local government or State housing finance agen-
cy, including State-assisted public housing, 
which is subject to a long-term affordability re-
striction requiring occupancy by low-income 
households; and 
(F) private housing for low- and moderate- 
income households and for which the Secretary 
requires the owner or purchaser of the project 
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to maintain affordability for no fewer than 20 
years in accordance with use restrictions under 
regulations issued by the Secretary, which re-
strictions shall be— 
(i) contained in a legally enforceable 
document recorded in the appropriate 
records; and 
(ii) consistent with the long-term via-
bility of the project as rental or homeown-
ership housing. 
(2) APPLICANT.—The term ‘‘applicant’’ means 
an eligible entity under section 3(a) that submits an 
application for a grant under this Act pursuant to 
section 6. 
(3) ASSISTED
HOUSING.—The term ‘‘assisted 
housing’’ means rental housing assisted under— 
(A) section 8 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f, 1437g); 
(B) section 221(d)(3) or 236 of the Na-
tional Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715l, 1715z– 
1); 
(C) section 202 of the Housing Act of 
1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); or 
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(D) section 811 of Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
8013). 
(4) CRITICAL
COMMUNITY
IMPROVEMENTS.— 
The 
term 
‘‘critical 
community 
improvements’’ 
means— 
(A) development or improvement of com-
munity facilities to promote upward mobility, 
self-sufficiency, or improved quality of life for 
residents of the neighborhood, such as construc-
tion or rehabilitation of parks and community 
gardens, environmental improvements, or site 
remediation at affected sites; or 
(B) activities to promote economic develop-
ment, such as development or improvement of 
transit, retail, community financial institutions, 
public services, facilities, assets, or other com-
munity resources. 
(5) EXTREME POVERTY.—The term ‘‘extreme 
poverty’’ means, with respect to a neighborhood, 
that the neighborhood— 
(A) has a high percentage of residents who 
are— 
(i) estimated to be in poverty; or 
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(ii) have extremely low incomes based 
on the most recent data collected by the 
United States Census Bureau; and 
(B) is experiencing distress related to one 
or more of the following: 
(i) Per capita crime rates over 3 or 
more years that are significantly higher 
than the per capita crime rates of the city 
or county in which the neighborhood is lo-
cated. 
(ii) High rates of vacant, abandoned, 
or substandard homes relative to the city 
or county as a whole. 
(iii) A low-performing public school. 
(iv) Other such factors as determined 
by the Secretary that further the purposes 
of this Act. 
(6) FAMILIES.—The term ‘‘families’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 3(b) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437a(b)). 
(7) GRANTEE.—The term ‘‘grantee’’ means an 
eligible entity under section 3 that is awarded a 
grant under this Act, pursuant to selection under 
section 6. 
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(8) LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.—The term ‘‘local 
government’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘unit 
of general local government’’ in section 102(a)(1) of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302). 
(9) LONG-TERM VIABILITY.—The term ‘‘long- 
term viability’’ means, with respect to a neighbor-
hood, that the neighborhood is sustainable on an 
economic, education, and environmental basis. 
(10) NEIGHBORHOOD.—The term ‘‘neighbor-
hood’’ means an area that— 
(A) has distinguishing characteristics; 
(B) represents the geographical distribu-
tion of targeted populations; and 
(C) is not exclusive of areas that are inte-
grally related to the composition of the commu-
nity. 
(11) PUBLIC HOUSING; PUBLIC HOUSING AGEN-
CY.—The terms ‘‘public housing’’ and ‘‘public hous-
ing agency’’ have the meanings given such terms in 
section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)). 
(12) 
SECRETARY.—The 
term 
‘‘Secretary’’ 
means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment. 
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(13) SEVERELY
DISTRESSED
HOUSING.—The 
term ‘‘severely distressed housing’’ means a public 
or assisted housing project (or building in a project) 
that— 
(A)(i) has been certified, by an engineer or 
architect licensed by a State licensing board, as 
meeting criteria for physical distress that indi-
cate that the project requires major redesign, 
reconstruction, or redevelopment, or partial or 
total demolition, to correct serious deficiencies 
in the original design (including inappropriately 
high-population density), deferred maintenance, 
physical deterioration or obsolescence of major 
systems, and other deficiencies in the physical 
plant of the project; and 
(ii) is a significant contributing factor to 
the physical decline of and disinvestment by 
public and private entities in the surrounding 
neighborhood, as documented by evidence of 
non-physical distress, such as extreme poverty, 
including census data and past surveys of 
neighborhood stability conducted by an appli-
cant or co-applicant or their qualified designee; 
or 
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(B) was a project described in subpara-
graph (A) that has been legally vacated or de-
molished, but for which the Secretary has not 
yet provided replacement housing assistance 
other than tenant-based assistance. 
(14) SIGNIFICANT AMENDMENT OR CHANGE.— 
The term ‘‘significant’’ means, with respect to an 
amendment or change to a transformation plan, that 
the amendment or change— 
(A) changes the use of 20 percent or more 
of the total amount of the grant provided under 
this Act from use for one activity to use for an-
other; 
(B) eliminates an activity that is a re-
quired 
activity 
that, 
notwithstanding 
the 
change, would otherwise be carried out under 
the plan; or 
(C) significantly changes the scope, loca-
tion, or beneficiaries of the project carried out 
under the plan. 
(15) SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.—The term ‘‘sup-
portive services’’ includes all activities that will pro-
mote upward mobility, self-sufficiency, or improved 
quality of life, including— 
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(A) such activities as literacy training, re-
medial and continuing education, job training, 
financial literacy instruction, daycare, youth 
services, aging-in-place, physical and mental 
health services, and other programs for which 
such residents demonstrate need; 
(B) case management and service coordi-
nation services, including providing coordinators 
for the Family Self-Sufficiency program under 
section 23 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u) and the Resident Op-
portunity and Supportive Services program 
under section 34 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1437z–6); and 
(C) technical assistance to enable residents 
to access programs from other key agencies and 
local service providers in order to help residents 
be stably housed, improve outcomes for chil-
dren, and enhance adults’ capacity for self-suf-
ficiency and economic security, and services for 
the elderly and persons with disabilities to 
maintain independence. 
SEC. 16. FUNDING. 
There are authorized to be appropriated the following 
amounts: 
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(1) GRANTS.—$1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 
2022 and such sums as may be necessary in each 
subsequent fiscal year, for grants under this Act, of 
which, in any fiscal year— 
(A) up to 10 percent of such amount au-
thorized may be used for planning grants, ex-
cept that in awarding planning grants, the Sec-
retary may elect to base selection on a subset 
of the required provisions of this Act; 
(B) up to 5 percent of the amount author-
ized may be used for technical assistance and 
program evaluation efforts related to grants 
awarded under this Act, or under predecessor 
programs; and 
(C) not less than 80 percent shall be used 
for, or 80 percent of the number of housing 
units assisted under this Act shall be, public 
housing units, subject to de minimis variations 
as may result from the grantee selection proc-
ess. 
(2) RENTAL ASSISTANCE.—Such sums as may 
be necessary for fiscal year 2022 and each subse-
quent fiscal year for providing tenant-based assist-
ance for relocation and for rental assistance under 
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
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for the purposes of complying with section 7(c) of 
this Act, but not to exceed the amount of assistance 
for the number of units demolished or disposed of 
under section 7(c)(1). 
SEC. 17. REGULATIONS. 
Not later than the expiration of the 180-day period 
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary shall issue regulations to carry out the following 
provisions of this Act: 
(1) Subsections (c) and (e) of section 5. 
(2) Section 8(b). 
(3) Paragraphs (4), (5), (9), (10), and (13) of 
section 15. 
Æ 
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