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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3117 
To provide enhanced voucher rental assistance for residents of certain 
federally assisted low-income housing, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 7, 2009 
Mr. LYNCH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To provide enhanced voucher rental assistance for residents 
of certain federally assisted low-income housing, 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 ‘‘Georgetowne Houses 
Preservation Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. ENHANCED VOUCHER ASSISTANCE FOR CERTAIN 
ASSISTED HOUSING RESIDENTS. 
(a) ENHANCED VOUCHER ASSISTANCE.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, contract, or covenant, 
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and subject only to the availability of amounts provided 
in advance in appropriation Acts— 
(1) upon the expiration, pursuant to paragraph 
(2), of the use restrictions applicable to the covered 
properties pursuant to the Emergency Low Income 
Housing Preservation Act of 1987 (12 U.S.C. 1715l 
note), each family who is an eligible low-income or 
moderate income family, as such terms are used for 
purposes of section 223(f)(2)(A) of the Low-Income 
Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership 
Act of 1990 (12 U.S.C. 4113(f)(2)(A)), and, as of 
such expiration, is residing in a dwelling unit in the 
covered properties not covered by project-based rent-
al assistance, shall be offered enhanced voucher as-
sistance under section 8(t) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)), and each 
such family who chooses to remain in the covered 
properties shall have three years from the date of 
the issuance of such enhanced voucher to commence 
use of the voucher; 
(2) such use restrictions applicable to the cov-
ered properties shall be deemed to expire on March 
1, 2010, but only if the owner of the covered prop-
erties enters into agreements with the Secretary to 
maintain the project-based rental assistance for the 
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properties for a period beginning upon such expira-
tion of not fewer than 20 years; and 
(3) the contract rents for dwelling units in the 
covered properties covered by project-based rental 
assistance shall be determined during the period 
ending upon the expiration of such use restrictions 
pursuant to paragraph (2) based upon the rents for 
comparable unassisted and unrestricted units in the 
area in which the covered properties are located; ex-
cept that before May 1, 2012, the rental assistance 
payments for such project-based units in the covered 
property known as Georgetowne Houses II shall be 
restricted to the rent levels provided under the 
Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act 
of 1987. 
(b) COVERED PROPERTIES.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘‘covered properties’’ means the housing 
developments known as Georgetowne Houses I and II (for-
merly identified by FHA project nos. 023–55058 and 
023–55179), located in Boston, Massachusetts. 
(c) FUNDING.—Amounts for the enhanced vouchers 
pursuant to this section shall be provided under amounts 
appropriated for tenant-based rental assistance otherwise 
authorized under section 8(t) of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937. 
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(d) APPLICABILITY.—This section shall take effect 
upon enactment and nothing in this section may be con-
strued to require any administrative guidance. 
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