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and conduct all business in a manner similar to 
housed people; 
(13) coordinate with the Department of Trans-
portation and the National Parks Service to restrict 
the use of Federal funding on hostile architecture 
projects and to remove hostile architecture from all 
privately owned public spaces, public parks, trails, 
sidewalks, buildings, and transportation facilities; 
(14) work in coordination with the Social Secu-
rity Administration, to develop guidance and regula-
tions creating hardship exemptions for individuals 
who have difficulty obtaining social security docu-
mentation and benefits due to their housing status; 
and 
(15) coordinate with local community stake-
holders, housing advocates, shelters, churches, and 
transitional housing programs to register and receive 
voting ballots for unhoused persons, in coordination 
with the Department of Health and Human Services 
and related social services. 
(g) PUBLIC HEALTH.—The House of Representatives 
shall strive to require the Department of Health and 
Human Services to declare the unhoused crisis a public 
health emergency and work in coordination with the 
Health Resources and Services Administration to imme-
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diately provide guidance to mitigate the compounding ef-
fects of the unhoused and public health crises, particularly 
as it relates to the COVID–19 pandemic, human immuno-
deficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, 
hepatitis, tuberculosis, and other communicable diseases. 
(h) FEDERAL GRANT PROGRAMS.—The House of 
Representatives shall strive to require Federal grant pro-
grams to establish guidelines for measuring direct impact 
to communities and holding grant awardees to the highest 
levels of community accountability, particularly in relation 
to the impact of the programs on unhoused persons dis-
proportionately impacted by criminalization and discrimi-
nation. 
(i) LAW ENFORCEMENT ANNUAL STATISTICS.—The 
House of Representatives shall— 
(1) encourage law enforcement agencies to com-
pile annual statistics showing the number of in-
stances of physical violence against unhoused indi-
viduals, as well as citations, arrests, and other law 
enforcement activities to track instances of criminal-
izing unhoused populations, including camp clean-
ups, vagrancy violations, sleeping in public, vehicle 
citations, street sweeps, and panhandling citations 
and provide these annual statistics to the Depart-
ment of Justice; and 
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(2) require the Department of Justice to com-
pile the data and statistics provided by law enforce-
ment agencies as incentivized in paragraph (1), and 
present an annual report to Congress. 
SEC. 3. REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 
The House of Representatives shall strive to require 
the Department of Justice, the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development, and the Department of Health 
and Human Services to coordinate with community advo-
cates, policymakers, and unhoused people to develop 
guidelines, policies, and procedures for decriminalizing 
unhoused individuals and communities, and providing re-
sources and direct services to unhoused communities, and 
make available a report to Congress not later than six 
months of the enactment of the relevant legislation. 
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