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assistance received by families under the program 
only for families who— 
‘‘(A) are gainfully employed and have been 
employed for at least 3 years; and 
‘‘(B) have earned income of at least 150 
percent of the poverty level for a family of the 
comparable size. 
‘‘(8) EMPLOYMENT
CONDITIONS.—A partici-
pating agency may condition the receipt of housing 
assistance by families under the program on the em-
ployment status of one or more families members 
only if the agency— 
‘‘(A) permits compliance with a standard 
of not more than 20 hours per week in quali-
fying work activity and permits compliance 
based on attendance in a school or other insti-
tution in pursuit of a diploma or graduate 
equivalency diploma; 
‘‘(B) establishes reasonable hardship ex-
emptions; and 
‘‘(C) suspends enforcement of such condi-
tion if the unemployment rate in the area 
served by the agency exceeds such level as the 
Secretary shall establish. 
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‘‘(9) SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION.—As part 
of the annual report required under subsection 
(h)(2), each participating agency shall submit infor-
mation annually to the Secretary regarding families 
assisted under the program of the agency and com-
ply with any other data submissions required by the 
Secretary for purposes of evaluation of the program 
under this section. 
‘‘(10) PUBLIC
AND
RESIDENT
PARTICIPA-
TION.—Each participating agency shall provide op-
portunities for resident and public participation in 
the annual plan under paragraph (11), as follows: 
‘‘(A) NOTICE TO RESIDENTS.— 
‘‘(i) NOTICE.—Each year, the agency 
shall provide notice to the low-income fam-
ilies it serves under the programs author-
ized by this section as to the impact of 
proposed policy changes and program ini-
tiatives and of the schedule of resident ad-
visory board and public meetings for the 
annual plan. 
‘‘(ii) MEETING.—The agency shall 
hold at least one meeting with the resident 
advisory board (including representatives 
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of recipients of assistance under section 8) 
to review the annual plan for each year. 
‘‘(B) PUBLIC MEETING.—With respect to 
each annual plan, the agency shall hold at least 
one annual public meeting to obtain comments 
on the plan, which may be combined with a 
meeting to review the annual report. In the case 
of any agency that administers, in the aggre-
gate, more than 15,000 public housing units 
and vouchers, or that operates in more than one 
county, the agency shall hold additional meet-
ings in locations that promote attendance by 
residents and other stakeholders. 
‘‘(C) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—Before adop-
tion of any annual plan, and not less than 30 
days before the public meeting required under 
subparagraph (A)(ii) with respect to the plan, 
the agency shall make the proposed annual plan 
available for public inspection and copying, on 
request, and for access through the Internet. 
The annual plan shall be made available for 
public inspection not less than 30 days before 
approval by the board of directors (or other 
similar governing body) of the agency and shall 
remain publicly available. 
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‘‘(D) BOARD APPROVAL.—Before submit-
ting an annual plan or annual report to the 
Secretary, the plan or report, as applicable, 
shall be approved in a public meeting by the 
board of directors or other governing body of 
the agency. 
‘‘(11) ANNUAL PLAN.— 
‘‘(A) REQUIREMENT.—For each year that 
a participating agency participates in the hous-
ing innovation program under this section, the 
agency shall submit to the Secretary, in lieu of 
all other planning requirements, an annual plan 
under this paragraph. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—Each annual plan shall 
include the following information: 
‘‘(i) A list and description of all pro-
gram initiatives and generally applicable 
policy changes, including references to af-
fected provisions of law or the imple-
menting regulations affected. 
‘‘(ii) A description and comparison of 
changes under the housing innovation pro-
gram of the agency from the plan for such 
program for the preceding year. 
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‘‘(iii) A description of property rede-
velopment or portfolio repositioning strate-
gies and proposed changes in policies or 
uses of funds required to implement such 
strategies. 
‘‘(iv) Documentation of public and 
resident participation sufficient to comply 
with the requirements under paragraphs 
(4) and (10), including a copy of any rec-
ommendations submitted in writing by the 
resident advisory board of the agency and 
members of the public, a summary of com-
ments, and a description of the manner in 
which the recommendations were ad-
dressed. 
‘‘(v) Certifications by the agency 
that— 
‘‘(I) the annual plan will be car-
ried out in conformity with title VI of 
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair 
Housing Act, section 504 of the Reha-
bilitation Act of 1973, title II of the 
Americans with Disabilities Act of 
1990, and the rules, standards, and 
policies in the approved plan; 
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‘‘(II) the agency will affirmatively 
further fair housing; and 
‘‘(III) the agency has complied 
and will continue to comply with its 
obligations under the national evalua-
tion. 
‘‘(vi) A description of the agency’s 
local asset management strategy for public 
housing properties, which shall be in lieu 
of any other asset management, project 
based management or accounting, or other 
system of allocating resources and costs to 
participating agency assets or cost centers 
that the Secretary may otherwise impose 
under this Act. 
‘‘(C) CHANGES.—If the agency proposes to 
make material changes in policies or initiatives 
in the plan during the year covered by the plan, 
the agency shall consult with the resident advi-
sory board for the agency established pursuant 
to section 5A(e) and the public regarding such 
changes before their adoption. 
‘‘(D) APPROVAL PROCESS.— 
‘‘(i) TIMING.—The Secretary shall re-
view and approve or disapprove each an-
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nual plan submitted to the Secretary with-
in 45 days after such submission. The Sec-
retary, directly or through the public hous-
ing agency, shall make information relating 
to such approval or disapproval available to 
the chairperson of the Resident Advisory 
Board of the public housing agency. 
‘‘(ii) 
STANDARDS
FOR
DIS-
APPROVAL.—The 
Secretary 
may 
dis-
approve a plan only if— 
‘‘(I) the Secretary reasonably de-
termines, based on information con-
tained in the annual plan or annual 
report, that the agency is not in com-
pliance with the requirements of this 
section; 
‘‘(II) the annual plan or most re-
cent annual report is not consistent 
with other reliable information avail-
able to the Secretary; or 
‘‘(III) the annual plan or annual 
report or the agency’s activities under 
the program are not otherwise in ac-
cordance with applicable law or with 
the agency’s application to participate 
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in the program pursuant to this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(iii) FAILURE TO DISAPPROVE.—If a 
submitted plan is not disapproved within 
45 days after submission, the plan shall be 
considered to be approved for purposes of 
this section. The preceding sentence shall 
not preclude judicial review regarding such 
compliance pursuant to chapter 7 of title 
5, United States Code, or an action re-
garding such compliance under section 
1979 of the Revised Statutes of the United 
States (42 U.S.C. 1983). 
‘‘(f) EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall con-
duct detailed evaluations of all public housing agen-
cies participating in the program under this sec-
tion— 
‘‘(A) to determine the level of success of 
each public housing agency in achieving the 
goals and objectives of the application to par-
ticipate in the program; 
‘‘(B) to determine the level of success of 
different types of proposals in achieving the pri-
ority strategies of subsection (d)(2) or other in-
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novative strategies identified pursuant to sub-
section (b)(1); and 
‘‘(C) to identify program models that can 
be replicated by other agencies to achieve such 
success. 
‘‘(2) 
EVALUATION
METHODOLOGY.—Evalua-
tions under this subsection shall be conducted uti-
lizing rigorous research methodology which shall in-
corporate, where appropriate and to the extent fund-
ing is available, the following: 
‘‘(A) Random assignment of families to ex-
perimental and control groups. 
‘‘(B) Comparisons of alternative strategies 
for advancing common goals. 
‘‘(C) An examination of the costs, outputs, 
and outcomes of tested strategies. 
‘‘(D) A process evaluation that examines 
the challenges faced in implementing tested 
strategies and how those challenges were over-
come. 
‘‘(E) A qualitative examination of the im-
pacts of tested strategies on affected families, 
including families on agency waiting lists. 
‘‘(F) An examination of the impact of test-
ed strategies on the housing needs and condi-
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tions of the jurisdiction in which the agency 
works. 
‘‘(G) Appropriate sensitivity to the costs 
that evaluation places on participating agencies, 
including a recognition that smaller agencies 
may have more difficulty than larger agencies 
in responding to data requests. 
‘‘(3) ADVISORY COUNCIL.—The Secretary shall 
establish an Advisory Council to provide input on 
the policies and strategies to be tested in evaluations 
under this subsection, data collection protocols, and 
other matters related to the success of the evalua-
tion, and to assist the evaluating entity and the Sec-
retary in interpreting the findings and formulating 
recommendations to the Congress to be included in 
the final report. The Secretary may also establish a 
separate Technical Advisory Group to provide input 
on technical issues associated with the evaluation. 
‘‘(4) REPORTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall 
submit three reports to the Congress, as pro-
vided in subparagraph (B), evaluating the pro-
grams of all public housing agencies partici-
pating in the program under this section and all 
agencies participating in the moving to work 
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demonstration. Each such report shall include 
findings and recommendations for any appro-
priate legislative action. 
‘‘(B) TIMING.—The reports under this 
paragraph shall include— 
‘‘(i) an initial report, which shall be 
submitted before the expiration of the 2- 
year period beginning on the date on which 
additional agencies are approved for par-
ticipation pursuant to subsection (d); 
‘‘(ii) an interim report, which shall be 
submitted before the expiration of the 4- 
year period beginning on such date of ap-
proval; and 
‘‘(iii) a final report, which shall be 
submitted before the expiration of the 10- 
year period beginning on the date of the 
enactment of the Section 8 Voucher Re-
form Act of 2009. 
‘‘(5) EVALUATING ENTITY.—The Secretary may 
contract out the responsibilities under this para-
graphs (1) and (2) to an independent entity that is 
qualified to perform such responsibilities. 
‘‘(6) PERFORMANCE
MEASURES.—The Sec-
retary or the evaluating entity, as applicable, shall 
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establish performance measures, which may in-
clude— 
‘‘(A) a baseline performance level against 
which program activities may be evaluated; and 
‘‘(B) performance measures for each of the 
five purposes identified in paragraphs (1) 
through (5) of subsection (a). 
‘‘(g) IMPACT OF POLICY ON FAMILIES BEING AS-
SISTED.— 
‘‘(1) DISCONTINUANCE
OR
MODIFICATION
OF 
POLICY.—If an evaluation of an agency pursuant to 
subsection (f)(1)(A) includes evidence that a policy 
adopted by an agency is or has been harmful to fam-
ilies assisted by the agency, the Secretary may, after 
the publication of either the initial or the interim re-
port pursuant to subsection (f)(4)(B), require such 
agency to discontinue such policy or to take appro-
priate actions to modify such policy to ameliorate 
such harm. 
‘‘(2) DETERMINATION.—The Secretary may not 
take such action unless the Secretary has made a 
determination that such policy is causing or has 
caused measurable harm to families currently or pre-
viously assisted, based on a reduction in the overall 
number of families receiving housing assistance, spe-
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cific types of families losing their housing assistance, 
a reduction in the number of affordable rental hous-
ing units operated by the agency, a reduction in the 
effective targeting of housing assistance to extremely 
low- or very low-income families, or a combination of 
such factors. 
‘‘(3) ADVICE
AND
OPPORTUNITY
TO
CON-
TEST.—Before taking such action, the Secretary 
shall advise the agency and give the agency a fair 
opportunity to contest such determination or action. 
If an agency contests such a determination or ac-
tion, the Secretary shall provide an opportunity for 
interested parties to submit additional relevant evi-
dence. 
‘‘(h) RECORDKEEPING, REPORTS, AND AUDITS.— 
‘‘(1) RECORDKEEPING.—Each public housing 
agency participating in the program under this sec-
tion shall keep such records as the Secretary may 
prescribe as reasonably necessary to disclose the 
amounts and the disposition of amounts under the 
program, to ensure compliance with the require-
ments of this section, and to measure performance. 
‘‘(2) REPORTS.—In lieu of all other reporting 
requirements, each such agency participating in the 
program shall submit to the Secretary an annual re-
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port in a form and at a time specified by the Sec-
retary. Each annual report shall include the fol-
lowing information: 
‘‘(A) A description, including an annual 
consolidated financial report, of the sources and 
uses of funds of the agency under the program, 
which shall account separately for funds made 
available under section 8 and subsections (d) 
and (e) of section 9, and shall compare the 
agency’s actions under the program with its an-
nual plan for the year. 
‘‘(B) An annual audit that complies with 
the requirements of Circular A–133 of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget, including the 
OMB Compliance Supplement. 
‘‘(C) A description of each hardship excep-
tion requested and granted or denied, and of 
the use of any transition rules. 
‘‘(D) Documentation of public and resident 
participation sufficient to comply with the re-
quirements under paragraph (7). 
‘‘(E) A comparison of income and the sizes 
and types of families assisted by the agency 
under the program compared to those assisted 
by the agency in the base year. 
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‘‘(F) Every two years, an evaluation of 
rent policies, subsidy level policies, and policies 
on program participation. 
‘‘(G) A description of any ongoing local 
evaluations and the results of any local evalua-
tions completed during the year. 
‘‘(3) ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS BY SECRETARY.— 
The Secretary shall have access for the purpose of 
audit and examination to any books, documents, pa-
pers, and records that are pertinent to assistance in 
connection with, and the requirements of, this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(4) ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS BY THE COMP-
TROLLER
GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of 
the United States, or any of the duly authorized rep-
resentatives of the Comptroller General, shall have 
access for the purpose of audit and examination to 
any books, documents, papers, and records that are 
pertinent to assistance in connection with, and the 
requirements of, this section. 
‘‘(5) REPORTS REGARDING EVALUATIONS.—The 
Secretary shall require each public housing agency 
participating in the program under this section to 
submit to the Secretary such information as the Sec-
retary considers appropriate to permit the Secretary 
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to evaluate (pursuant to subsection (f)) the perform-
ance and success of the agency in achieving the pur-
poses of the demonstration. 
‘‘(i) ADDITIONAL PROGRAM AGENCIES.—In partici-
pating in the program under the terms of this subsection, 
the public housing agencies designated for such participa-
tion shall be subject to the requirements of this section, 
and the additional following requirements: 
‘‘(1) APPLICABILITY
OF
CERTAIN
EXISTING 
PROVISIONS.—Such agencies shall be subject to the 
provisions of— 
‘‘(A) subsections (a) and (b) of section 3; 
and 
‘‘(B) section 8(o), except for paragraph 
(11) and except as the requirements of section 
8(o) are modified by subsection (e)(3) of this 
section. 
‘‘(2) NO TIME LIMITS.—Such agencies may not 
impose time limits on the term of housing assistance 
received by families under the program. 
‘‘(3) NO
EMPLOYMENT
CONDITIONS.—Such 
agencies may not condition the receipt of housing as-
sistance by families under the program on the em-
ployment status of one or more family members. 
‘‘(4) ONE-FOR-ONE REPLACEMENT.— 
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‘‘(A) CONDITIONS ON DEMOLITION.—Such 
agencies may not demolish or dispose of any 
dwelling unit of public housing operated or ad-
ministered by such agency (including any un-
inhabitable unit and any unit previously ap-
proved for demolition) except pursuant to a 
plan for replacement of such units in accord-
ance with, and approved by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development pursuant to, 
subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(B) PLAN
REQUIREMENTS.—The Sec-
retary may not approve a plan that provides for 
demolition or disposition of any dwelling unit of 
public housing referred to in subparagraph (A) 
unless— 
‘‘(i) such plan provides for outreach to 
public housing agency residents in accord-
ance with paragraph (5); 
‘‘(ii) not later than 60 days before the 
date of the approval of such plan, such 
agency has convened and conducted a pub-
lic hearing regarding the demolition or dis-
position proposed in the plan; 
‘‘(iii) such plan provides that for each 
such dwelling unit demolished or disposed 
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of, such public housing agency will provide 
an additional dwelling unit through— 
‘‘(I) the acquisition or develop-
ment of additional public housing 
dwelling units; or 
‘‘(II) the acquisition, develop-
ment, 
or 
contracting 
(including 
through project-based assistance) of 
additional dwelling units that are sub-
ject to requirements regarding eligi-
bility for initial or continued occu-
pancy, tenant contribution toward 
rent, and long-term affordability re-
strictions which are comparable to 
public housing units, except that no 
household may be prevented from oc-
cupying a replacement dwelling unit 
provided pursuant to clause (iii) ex-
cept to the extent specifically provided 
by any other provision of Federal law 
(including subtitle F of title V of the 
Quality Housing and Work Responsi-
bility Act of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 13661 
et seq.; relating to safety and security 
in public and assisted housing, sub-
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title D of title VI of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1992 
(42 U.S.C. 13611 et seq.; relating to 
preferences for elderly and disabled 
residents), and section 16(f) of this 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437n(f)); relating to 
ineligibility of persons convicted of 
methamphetamine offenses); 
‘‘(iv) such plan provides for a right, 
and implementation of such right, to occu-
pancy of additional dwelling units provided 
in accordance with clause (iii), for house-
holds who, as of the time that dwelling 
units demolished or disposed of were va-
cated to provide for such demolition or dis-
position, were occupying such dwelling 
units; 
‘‘(v) such plan provides that the pro-
posed demolition or disposition and reloca-
tion will be carried out in a manner that 
affirmatively furthers fair housing, as de-
scribed in subsection (e) of section 808 of 
the Civil Rights Act of 1968; and 
‘‘(vi) to the extent that such plan pro-
vides for the provision of replacement or 
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additional dwelling units, or redevelop-
ment, in phases over time, such plan pro-
vides that the ratio of dwelling units de-
scribed in subclauses (I) and (II) of clause 
(iii) that are provided in any such single 
phase to the total number of dwelling units 
provided in such phase is not less than the 
ratio of the aggregate number of such 
dwelling units provided under the plan to 
the total number of dwelling units provided 
under the plan. 
‘‘(C) MONITORING.—The Secretary shall 
provide for the appropriate field offices of the 
Department to monitor and supervise the en-
forcement of this paragraph and plans approved 
under this paragraph and to consult, regarding 
such monitoring and enforcement, with resident 
councils of, and resident of public housing oper-
ated or administered by, the agency. 
‘‘(5) COMPREHENSIVE
OUTREACH
PLAN.—No 
program funds of such agencies may be use to de-
molish or dispose of any public housing dwelling 
units except in accordance with a comprehensive 
outreach plan for such activities, developed by the 
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agency in conjunction with the residents of the pub-
lic housing agency, as follows: 
‘‘(A) The plan shall be developed by the 
agency and a resident task force, which may in-
clude members of the Resident Council, but 
may not be limited to such members, and which 
shall represent all segments of the population of 
residents of the agency, including single parent- 
headed households, the elderly, young employed 
and unemployed adults, teenage youth, and dis-
abled persons. 
‘‘(B) The votes and agreements regarding 
the plan shall involve— 
‘‘(i) in the case of any public housing 
agency that administers 250 or fewer pub-
lic housing dwelling units, not less than 10 
percent of affected residents; and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of any public housing 
agency that administers more than 250 
public housing dwelling units, not less than 
25 affected residents. 
‘‘(C) The plan shall provide for and de-
scribe outreach efforts to inform residents of 
the program under this subsection, including a 
door-to-door information program, monthly 
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newsletters to each resident household, monthly 
meetings dedicated solely to every aspect of the 
proposed development, including redevelopment 
factors, which shall include the one-for-one re-
placement requirement under paragraph (4), 
resident rights to return, the requirements of 
the program under this subsection, new resident 
support and community services to be provided, 
opportunities for participation in architectural 
design, and employment opportunities for resi-
dents, which shall make available at least 30 
percent of the total hours worked at all such 
employment, and shall also make available at 
least 25 percent of unskilled jobs in demolition 
activities and 25 percent of unskilled jobs in 
construction activities related to the redevelop-
ment project, including job training, apprentice-
ships, union membership assistance. 
‘‘(D) The plan shall provide for regularly 
scheduled monthly meeting updates and a sys-
tem for filing complaints about any aspect of 
the redevelopment process. 
‘‘(j) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
following definitions shall apply: 
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‘‘(1) EXISTING MTW AGENCY.—The term ‘exist-
ing MTW agency’ means a public housing agency 
that as of the date of the enactment of the Section 
8 Voucher Reform Act of 2009 has an existing 
agreement with the Secretary pursuant to the mov-
ing to work demonstration, or is authorized to enter 
into such an agreement under section 230 of the 
Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008 
(Public Law 110–161; 121 Stat. 2438) or section 
236 of the Transportation, Housing and Urban De-
velopment, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2009 (Division I of Public Law 111–8). 
‘‘(2) BASE YEAR.—The term ‘base year’ means, 
with respect to a participating agency, the agency 
fiscal year or calendar year, as appropriate, most re-
cently completed prior to selection and approval for 
participation in the housing innovation program 
under this section. 
‘‘(3) MOVING TO WORK DEMONSTRATION.—The 
term ‘moving to work demonstration’ means the 
moving to work demonstration program under sec-
tion 204 of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent 
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Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (42 U.S.C. 1437f 
note). 
‘‘(4) PARTICIPATING
AGENCIES.—The term 
‘participating agencies’ means public housing agen-
cies designated and approved for participation, and 
participating, in the housing innovation program 
under this section. 
‘‘(5) PROGRAM
FUNDS.—The term ‘program 
funds’ means, with respect to a participating agency, 
any amounts that the agency is authorized, pursuant 
to subsection (e)(1), to use to carry out the housing 
innovation program under this section of the agency. 
‘‘(6) RESIDENTS.—The term ‘residents’ means, 
with respect to a public housing agency, tenants of 
public housing of the agency and participants in the 
voucher or other housing assistance programs of the 
agency funded under section 8(o), or tenants of 
other units owned by the agency and assisted under 
this section. 
‘‘(k) RESIDENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated for each of 
fiscal years 2010 through 2014 $10,000,000, for 
providing capacity building and technical assistance 
to enhance the capabilities of low-income families as-
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sisted or eligible for assistance under the program 
under this section to participate in the process for 
establishment and revision of annual plans under 
this section for participating agencies, including re-
view and comment on impact analyses and demoli-
tion or disposition proposals. 
‘‘(2) CRITERIA FOR AWARD OF FUNDS.—The 
Secretary shall publish the criteria to be used to 
award funds on a competitive basis, in an amount 
appropriate to the number of households affected by 
the program of the participating agency or agencies 
that such participating agency assists, to local, re-
gional, State, or national organizations that— 
‘‘(A)(i) have members who are predomi-
nantly low-income; 
‘‘(ii) have low-income individuals on their 
boards of directors; or 
‘‘(iii) directly work with or represent low- 
income individuals; 
‘‘(B) have the legal, policy, and develop-
ment expertise to provide such assistance or will 
subcontract for such services; and 
‘‘(C) have a demonstrated capacity to man-
age similar grants. 
‘‘(3) PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES.— 
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‘‘(A) INELIGIBILITY; NONLIABILITY.—Pub-
lic housing agencies shall not be eligible to re-
ceive funds under this subsection, and shall not 
be liable for the action of any grantee. 
‘‘(B) COOPERATION
WITH
GRANTEES.— 
Public housing agencies participating in the 
program under this section shall cooperate with 
grantees receiving technical assistance funds 
under this subsection, to assist such grantees to 
reach families assisted under the program. 
‘‘(l) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS
FOR 
EVALUATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated 
$15,000,000 to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development for the purpose of conducting the evaluations 
required under subsection (f)(1).’’. 
(b) GAO REPORT.—Not later than 48 months after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 
General of the United States shall submit a report to the 
Congress on the extent to which the public housing agen-
cies participating in the housing innovation program 
under section 37 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 are meeting the goals and purposes of such program, 
as identified in subsection (a) of such section 37. 
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SEC. 24. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Except as otherwise specifically provided in this 
Act— 
(1) sections 3, 4, 6, and 7 of this Act and the 
amendments made by such sections shall take effect 
on January 1, 2010, except that the Secretary may 
delay such effective date for any one or more of sec-
tions 3, 4, and 7 to January 1, 2011, upon a deter-
mination by the Secretary that such extension is 
necessary to provide program participants sufficient 
time to make adjustments to the changes made by 
such sections; and 
(2) all other provisions of this Act and the 
amendments made by this Act shall take effect upon 
the issuance by the Secretary of implementing regu-
lations, as appropriate, or by notice, which shall be 
issued not later than the expiration of the 12-month 
period beginning upon the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
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