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(1) $12,000,000 shall be available for the self-help home-
ownership opportunity program as authorized under such sec-
tion 11; 
(2) $46,000,000 shall be available for the second, third, 
and fourth capacity building entities specified in section 4(a) 
of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (III Stat 201; 42 U.S.C. 
9816 note), of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be for 
rural capacity building activities; and 
(3) $7,000,000 shall be available for capacity building by 
national 
rural 
housing 
organizations 
having 
experience 
assessing national rural conditions and providing financing, 
training, technical assistance, information, and research to local 
nonprofit organizations, local governments, and Indian tribes 
serving high need rural communities. 
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For assistance under title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360 et seq.), and for related activities 
and assistance, $4,417,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2028: Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this 
heading— 
(1) $290,000,000 shall be available for the emergency solu-
tions grants program authorized under subtitle B of such title 
IV (42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq.): Provided, That the Department 
shall notify grantees of their formula allocation from amounts 
allocated (which may represent initial or final amounts allo-
cated) for the emergency solutions grant program not later 
than 60 days after enactment of this Act; 
(2) $4,010,000,000 shall be available for the continuum 
of care program authorized under subtitle C of such title IV 
(42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) and the rural housing stability assist-
ance programs authorized under subtitle D of such title IV 
(42 U.S.C. 11408): Provided, That the Secretary shall prioritize 
funding under the continuum of care program to continuums 
of care that have demonstrated a capacity to reallocate funding 
from lower performing projects to higher performing projects: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall make reasonable 
adjustments to renewal amounts to enable renewal projects 
to operate at substantially the same levels, including cost- 
of-living adjustments for supportive services from the prior 
grant: Provided further, That in allocating and awarding 
amounts made available under this paragraph, the Secretary 
shall select projects totaling not less than 60 percent of the 
annual renewal demand for each collaborative applicant based 
on rankings determined by the local continuum of care and 
consistent with 42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may establish by notice an alternative maximum 
amount for administrative costs related to the requirements 
described in sections 402(f)(1) and 402(f)(2) of subtitle A of 
such title IV of no more than 5 percent or $50,000, whichever 
is greater, notwithstanding the 3 percent limitation in section 
423(a)(10) of such subtitle C: Provided further, That of the 
amounts made available for the continuum of care program 
under this paragraph, $52,000,000 shall be for grants for new 
rapid re-housing projects and supportive service projects pro-
viding coordinated entry, and for eligible activities that the
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Secretary determines to be critical in order to assist survivors 
of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, 
except that the Secretary may make additional grants for such 
projects and purposes from amounts made available for such 
continuum of care program: Provided further, That amounts 
made available for the continuum of care program under this 
paragraph and any remaining unobligated balances under this 
heading in prior Acts may be used to competitively or non- 
competitively renew or replace grants for youth homelessness 
demonstration projects under the continuum of care program, 
notwithstanding any conflict with the requirements of the con-
tinuum of care program: Provided further, That any continuum 
of care, in consultation with their youth action board, that 
determines it no longer has an identified need for funds to 
renew a youth homelessness demonstration project shall notify 
the Secretary, and the Secretary shall recapture such assistance 
from the continuum of care and competitively award it to 
any other continuum of care with the amounts provided under 
this heading under paragraph (4): Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall issue the notice of funding opportunity for the 
amounts made available in this paragraph not later than June 
1, 2026 and shall award such amounts not later than December 
1, 2026; 
(3) $10,000,000 shall be available for the national homeless 
data analysis project: Provided, That notwithstanding the provi-
sions of the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreements Act 
of 1977 (31 U.S.C. 6301–6308), the amounts made available 
under this paragraph and any remaining unobligated balances 
under this heading for such purposes in prior Acts may be 
used by the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements 
with such entities as may be determined by the Secretary, 
including public and private organizations, agencies, and 
institutions; and 
(4) $107,000,000 shall be available to implement projects 
to demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving home-
less youth, age 24 and under, in up to 25 communities with 
a priority for communities with substantial rural populations 
in up to eight locations, can dramatically reduce youth 
homelessness: Provided, That of the amount made available 
under this paragraph, up to $25,000,000 may be for youth 
homelessness system improvement grants to support commu-
nities, including but not limited to the communities assisted 
under the matter preceding this proviso, in establishing and 
implementing an evidence-based response system for youth 
homelessness, or for improving their existing system, including 
through the establishment of local youth advisory boards, 
collaboration with youth with lived experience of homelessness 
in project design and implementation, improving data collection, 
management, utilization and evaluation, cross-system partner-
ships with juvenile justice, child welfare, and education sys-
tems: Provided further, That of the amount made available 
under this paragraph, up to $10,000,000 shall be to provide 
technical assistance to communities, including but not limited 
to the communities assisted in the preceding proviso and the 
matter preceding such proviso, on improving system responses 
to youth homelessness, and collection, analysis, use, and
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reporting of data and performance measures under the com-
prehensive approaches to serve homeless youth, in addition 
to and in coordination with other technical assistance funds 
provided under this title: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may use up to 10 percent of the amount made available under 
the preceding proviso to build the capacity of current technical 
assistance providers or to train new technical assistance pro-
viders with verifiable prior experience with systems and pro-
grams for youth experiencing homelessness: 
Provided further, That youth aged 24 and under seeking assistance 
under this heading shall not be required to provide third party 
documentation to establish their eligibility under subsection (a) 
or (b) of section 103 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 11302) to receive services: Provided further, That 
unaccompanied youth aged 24 and under or families headed by 
youth aged 24 and under who are living in unsafe situations may 
be served by youth-serving providers funded under this heading: 
Provided further, That recipients of funds provided under this 
heading in this Act or any prior Act may establish preferences 
for elderly individuals or families (except for programs provided 
to serve homeless youth), or disabled individuals or families as 
defined by section 401(10) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(10)), when implementing the programs: 
Provided further, That persons eligible under section 103(a)(5) of 
the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act may be served by 
any project funded under this heading to provide both transitional 
housing and rapid re-housing: Provided further, That for all 
matching funds requirements applicable to funds made available 
under this heading for this fiscal year and prior fiscal years, a 
grantee may use (or could have used) as a source of match funds 
other funds administered by the Secretary and other Federal agen-
cies unless there is (or was) a specific statutory prohibition on 
any such use of any such funds: Provided further, That none of 
the funds made available under this heading shall be available 
to provide funding for new projects, except for projects created 
through reallocation, unless the Secretary determines that the con-
tinuum of care has demonstrated that projects are evaluated and 
ranked based on the degree to which they improve the continuum 
of care’s system performance: Provided further, That any unobli-
gated amounts remaining from funds made available under this 
heading in fiscal year 2012 and prior years for project-based rental 
assistance for rehabilitation projects with 10-year grant terms may 
be used for purposes under this heading, notwithstanding the pur-
poses for which such funds were appropriated: Provided further, 
That unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, 
remaining from funds transferred to or appropriated under this 
heading in fiscal year 2019 or prior years, except for rental assist-
ance amounts that were recaptured and made available until 
expended, shall be available for the current purposes authorized 
under this heading in addition to the purposes for which such 
funds originally were appropriated.
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HOUSING PROGRAMS 
PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of project-based 
subsidy contracts under the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (‘‘the Act’’), not otherwise provided for, 
$18,143,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be avail-
able on October 1, 2025 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously 
appropriated under this heading that became available October 
1, 2025), and $400,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be available on October 1, 2026: Provided, That the amounts 
made available under this heading shall be available for expiring 
or terminating section 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including 
section 8 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to 
section 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 mod-
erate rehabilitation contracts), for contracts entered into pursuant 
to section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 11401), for renewal of section 8 contracts for units 
in projects that are subject to approved plans of action under 
the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or 
the Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeowner-
ship Act of 1990, and for administrative and other expenses associ-
ated with project-based activities and assistance funded under this 
heading: Provided further, That of the total amounts provided under 
this heading, not to exceed $509,000,000 shall be available for 
performance-based contract administrators for section 8 project- 
based assistance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f): Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary may also use such amounts in the preceding 
proviso for performance-based contract administrators for the 
administration of: interest reduction payments pursuant to section 
236(a) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1(a)); rent 
supplement payments pursuant to section 101 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); section 236(f)(2) 
rental assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1(f)(2)); project rental 
assistance contracts for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) of the 
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); project rental assistance 
contracts for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under 
section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); project assistance contracts 
pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public 
Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667); and loans under section 202 of the 
Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667): Provided 
further, That amounts recaptured under this heading, the heading 
‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing’’, or the heading 
‘‘Housing Certificate Fund’’, may be used for renewals of or amend-
ments to section 8 project-based contracts or for performance-based 
contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for which 
such amounts were appropriated: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, upon the request of the Sec-
retary, project funds that are held in residual receipts accounts 
for any project subject to a section 8 project-based housing assist-
ance payments contract that authorizes the Department or a 
housing finance agency to require that surplus project funds be 
deposited in an interest-bearing residual receipts account and that 
are in excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary, 
shall be remitted to the Department and deposited in this account,