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1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act 
of 1992 shall be provided to areas with the highest lead-based 
paint abatement needs: Provided further, That each applicant shall 
certify adequate capacity that is acceptable to the Secretary to 
carry out the proposed use of funds pursuant to a notice of funding 
availability: Provided further, That amounts made available under 
this heading in this or prior appropriations Acts, and that still 
remain available, may be used for any purpose under this heading 
notwithstanding the purpose for which such amounts were appro-
priated if a program competition is undersubscribed and there 
are other program competitions under this heading that are over-
subscribed. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND 
For the development of, modifications to, and infrastructure 
for Department-wide and program-specific information technology 
systems, for the continuing operation and maintenance of both 
Department-wide and program-specific information systems, and 
for program-related maintenance activities, $267,000,000, of which 
$250,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2019, and 
of which $17,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2020: Provided, That any amounts transferred to this Fund under 
this Act shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That any amounts transferred to this Fund from amounts appro-
priated by previously enacted appropriations Acts may be used 
for the purposes specified under this Fund, in addition to any 
other information technology purposes for which such amounts were 
appropriated: Provided further, That not more than 10 percent 
of the funds made available under this heading for development, 
modernization and enhancement may be obligated until the Sec-
retary submits to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions, for approval, a plan for expenditure that—(A) identifies for 
each modernization project: (i) the functional and performance 
capabilities to be delivered and the mission benefits to be realized, 
(ii) the estimated life-cycle cost, and (iii) key milestones to be 
met; and (B) demonstrates that each modernization project is: (i) 
compliant with the Department’s enterprise architecture, (ii) being 
managed in accordance with applicable life-cycle management poli-
cies and guidance, (iii) subject to the Department’s capital planning 
and investment control requirements, and (iv) supported by an 
adequately staffed project office. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $128,082,000: Provided, That the Inspector General shall 
have independent authority over all personnel issues within this 
office.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
SEC. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, 
or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with 
such budget authority, that are recaptured from projects described 
in section 1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 
Amendments Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) shall be rescinded 
or in the case of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and 
such amounts of budget authority or cash recaptured and not 
rescinded or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing 
finance agencies or local governments or local housing agencies 
with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development for which settlement occurred after January 1, 1992, 
in accordance with such section. Notwithstanding the previous sen-
tence, the Secretary may award up to 15 percent of the budget 
authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to 
the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to refinance 
their project at a lower interest rate. 
SEC. 202. None of the amounts made available under this 
Act may be used during fiscal year 2018 to investigate or prosecute 
under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged 
in by one or more persons, including the filing or maintaining 
of a nonfrivolous legal action, that is engaged in solely for the 
purpose of achieving or preventing action by a Government official 
or entity, or a court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 203. Except as explicitly provided in law, any grant, 
cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title 
II of this Act shall be made on a competitive basis and in accordance 
with section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545). 
SEC. 204. Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development subject to the Government Corporation Control Act 
or section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without 
regard to the limitations on administrative expenses, for legal serv-
ices on a contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment 
for services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Associa-
tion, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home 
Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal 
Reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, 
and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811–1). 
SEC. 205. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or through 
a reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be available 
for any program, project or activity in excess of amounts set forth 
in the budget estimates submitted to Congress. 
SEC. 206. Corporations and agencies of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the Govern-
ment Corporation Control Act are hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to each such corporation or agency and in accordance 
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without
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regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of 
such Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 
forth in the budget for 2018 for such corporation or agency except 
as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of these corpora-
tions and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase 
commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this 
Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance 
provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this 
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty 
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage pur-
chases are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United 
States Government. 
SEC. 207. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall provide quarterly reports to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recap-
tured and excess funds in each program and activity within the 
jurisdiction of the Department and shall submit additional, updated 
budget information to these Committees upon request. 
SEC. 208. The President’s formal budget request for fiscal year 
2019, as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment’s congressional budget justifications to be submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate, shall use the identical account and sub-account struc-
ture provided under this Act. 
SEC. 209. No funds provided under this title may be used 
for an audit of the Government National Mortgage Association 
that makes applicable requirements under the Federal Credit 
Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.). 
SEC. 210. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, sub-
ject to the conditions listed under this section, for fiscal years 
2018 and 2019, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may authorize the transfer of some or all project-based assistance, 
debt held or insured by the Secretary and statutorily required 
low-income and very low-income use restrictions if any, associated 
with one or more multifamily housing project or projects to another 
multifamily housing project or projects. 
(b) PHASED TRANSFERS.—Transfers of project-based assistance 
under this section may be done in phases to accommodate the 
financing and other requirements related to rehabilitating or con-
structing the project or projects to which the assistance is trans-
ferred, to ensure that such project or projects meet the standards 
under subsection (c). 
(c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject to the 
following conditions: 
(1) NUMBER AND BEDROOM SIZE OF UNITS.— 
(A) For occupied units in the transferring project: The 
number of low-income and very low-income units and the 
configuration (i.e., bedroom size) provided by the transfer-
ring project shall be no less than when transferred to 
the receiving project or projects and the net dollar amount 
of Federal assistance provided to the transferring project 
shall remain the same in the receiving project or projects. 
(B) For unoccupied units in the transferring project: 
The Secretary may authorize a reduction in the number 
of dwelling units in the receiving project or projects to 
allow for a reconfiguration of bedroom sizes to meet current
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market demands, as determined by the Secretary and pro-
vided there is no increase in the project-based assistance 
budget authority. 
(2) The transferring project shall, as determined by the 
Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically non-
viable. 
(3) The receiving project or projects shall meet or exceed 
applicable physical standards established by the Secretary. 
(4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring project 
shall notify and consult with the tenants residing in the 
transferring project and provide a certification of approval by 
all appropriate local governmental officials. 
(5) The tenants of the transferring project who remain 
eligible for assistance to be provided by the receiving project 
or projects shall not be required to vacate their units in the 
transferring project or projects until new units in the receiving 
project are available for occupancy. 
(6) The Secretary determines that this transfer is in the 
best interest of the tenants. 
(7) If either the transferring project or the receiving project 
or projects meets the condition specified in subsection (d)(2)(A), 
any lien on the receiving project resulting from additional 
financing obtained by the owner shall be subordinate to any 
FHA-insured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on, such 
project by the Secretary, except that the Secretary may waive 
this requirement upon determination that such a waiver is 
necessary to facilitate the financing of acquisition, construction, 
and/or rehabilitation of the receiving project or projects. 
(8) If the transferring project meets the requirements of 
subsection (d)(2), the owner or mortgagor of the receiving 
project or projects shall execute and record either a continuation 
of the existing use agreement or a new use agreement for 
the project where, in either case, any use restrictions in such 
agreement are of no lesser duration than the existing use 
restrictions. 
(9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
amended) of any FHA-insured mortgage, except to the extent 
that appropriations are provided in advance for the amount 
of any such increased cost. 
(d) For purposes of this section— 
(1) the terms ‘‘low-income’’ and ‘‘very low-income’’ shall 
have the meanings provided by the statute and/or regulations 
governing the program under which the project is insured or 
assisted; 
(2) the term ‘‘multifamily housing project’’ means housing 
that meets one of the following conditions— 
(A) housing that is subject to a mortgage insured under 
the National Housing Act; 
(B) housing that has project-based assistance attached 
to the structure including projects undergoing mark to 
market debt restructuring under the Multifamily Assisted 
Housing Reform and Affordability Housing Act; 
(C) housing that is assisted under section 202 of the 
Housing Act of 1959, as amended by section 801 of the 
Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act;
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(D) housing that is assisted under section 202 of the 
Housing Act of 1959, as such section existed before the 
enactment of the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable 
Housing Act; 
(E) housing that is assisted under section 811 of the 
Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; or 
(F) housing or vacant land that is subject to a use 
agreement; 
(3) the term ‘‘project-based assistance’’ means— 
(A) assistance provided under section 8(b) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937; 
(B) assistance for housing constructed or substantially 
rehabilitated pursuant to assistance provided under section 
8(b)(2) of such Act (as such section existed immediately 
before October 1, 1983); 
(C) rent supplement payments under section 101 of 
the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965; 
(D) interest reduction payments under section 236 and/ 
or additional assistance payments under section 236(f)(2) 
of the National Housing Act; 
(E) assistance payments made under section 202(c)(2) 
of the Housing Act of 1959; and 
(F) assistance payments made under section 811(d)(2) 
of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; 
(4) the term ‘‘receiving project or projects’’ means the multi-
family housing project or projects to which some or all of 
the project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily required low- 
income and very low-income use restrictions are to be trans-
ferred; 
(5) the term ‘‘transferring project’’ means the multifamily 
housing project which is transferring some or all of the project- 
based assistance, debt, and the statutorily required low-income 
and very low-income use restrictions to the receiving project 
or projects; and 
(6) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development. 
(e) RESEARCH REPORT.—The Secretary shall conduct an evalua-
tion of the transfer authority under this section, including the 
effect of such transfers on the operational efficiency, contract rents, 
physical and financial conditions, and long-term preservation of 
the affected properties. 
SEC. 211. (a) No assistance shall be provided under section 
8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) 
to any individual who— 
(1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of higher 
education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)); 
(2) is under 24 years of age; 
(3) is not a veteran; 
(4) is unmarried; 
(5) does not have a dependent child; 
(6) is not a person with disabilities, as such term is defined 
in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving assistance 
under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005; 
(7) is not a youth who left foster care at age 14 or older 
and is at risk of becoming homeless; and
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(8) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has parents 
who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to receive assist-
ance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). 
(b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a person 
to receive assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial assistance (in excess 
of amounts received for tuition and any other required fees and 
charges) that an individual receives under the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), from private sources, or 
an institution of higher education (as defined under the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)), shall be considered income 
to that individual, except for a person over the age of 23 with 
dependent children. 
SEC. 212. The funds made available for Native Alaskans under 
the heading ‘‘Native American Housing Block Grants’’ in title II 
of this Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing 
block grant recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005. 
SEC. 213. Notwithstanding the limitation in the first sentence 
of section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z– 
20(g)), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, 
until September 30, 2018, insure and enter into commitments to 
insure mortgages under such section 255. 
SEC. 214. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 2018, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property 
that is owned or has a mortgage held by the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development, and during the process of foreclosure 
on any property with a contract for rental assistance payments 
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 or other 
Federal programs, the Secretary shall maintain any rental assist-
ance payments under section 8 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 and other programs that are attached to any dwelling 
units in the property. To the extent the Secretary determines, 
in consultation with the tenants and the local government, that 
such a multifamily property owned or held by the Secretary is 
not feasible for continued rental assistance payments under such 
section 8 or other programs, based on consideration of (1) the 
costs of rehabilitating and operating the property and all available 
Federal, State, and local resources, including rent adjustments 
under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 
and Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’) and (2) environmental 
conditions that cannot be remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the 
Secretary may, in consultation with the tenants of that property, 
contract for project-based rental assistance payments with an owner 
or owners of other existing housing properties, or provide other 
rental assistance. The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps 
to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect prior to 
foreclosure, subject to the exercise of contractual abatement rem-
edies to assist relocation of tenants for imminent major threats 
to health and safety after written notice to and informed consent 
of the affected tenants and use of other available remedies, such 
as partial abatements or receivership. After disposition of any multi-
family property described under this section, the contract and allow-
able rent levels on such properties shall be subject to the require-
ments under section 524 of MAHRAA.
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SEC. 215. The commitment authority funded by fees as provided 
under the heading ‘‘Community Development Loan Guarantees Pro-
gram Account’’ may be used to guarantee, or make commitments 
to guarantee, notes, or other obligations issued by any State on 
behalf of non-entitlement communities in the State in accordance 
with the requirements of section 108 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974: Provided, That any State receiving such 
a guarantee or commitment shall distribute all funds subject to 
such guarantee to the units of general local government in non- 
entitlement areas that received the commitment. 
SEC. 216. Public housing agencies that own and operate 400 
or fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt from any 
asset management requirement imposed by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development in connection with the operating 
fund rule: Provided, That an agency seeking a discontinuance of 
a reduction of subsidy under the operating fund formula shall 
not be exempt from asset management requirements. 
SEC. 217. With respect to the use of amounts provided in 
this Act and in future Acts for the operation, capital improvement 
and management of public housing as authorized by sections 9(d) 
and 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437g(d) and (e)), the Secretary shall not impose any requirement 
or guideline relating to asset management that restricts or limits 
in any way the use of capital funds for central office costs pursuant 
to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)): Provided, That a public housing 
agency may not use capital funds authorized under section 9(d) 
for activities that are eligible under section 9(e) for assistance 
with amounts from the operating fund in excess of the amounts 
permitted under section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2). 
SEC. 218. No official or employee of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development shall be designated as an allotment holder 
unless the Office of the Chief Financial Officer has determined 
that such allotment holder has implemented an adequate system 
of funds control and has received training in funds control proce-
dures and directives. The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that 
there is a trained allotment holder for each HUD sub-office under 
the accounts ‘‘Executive Offices’’ and ‘‘Administrative Support 
Offices,’’ as well as each account receiving appropriations for ‘‘Pro-
gram Office Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Government National Mort-
gage Association—Guarantees of Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan 
Guarantee Program Account’’, and ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ 
within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 219. The Secretary of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development shall, for fiscal year 2018, notify the public 
through the Federal Register and other means, as determined 
appropriate, of the issuance of a notice of the availability of assist-
ance or notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program 
or discretionary fund administered by the Secretary that is to 
be competitively awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for fiscal year 2018, the Secretary may make the NOFA avail-
able only on the Internet at the appropriate Government web site 
or through other electronic media, as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 220. Payment of attorney fees in program-related litigation 
shall be paid from the individual program office and Office of 
General Counsel salaries and expenses appropriations. The annual 
budget submission for the program offices and the Office of General
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Counsel shall include any such projected litigation costs for attorney 
fees as a separate line item request. No funds provided in this 
title may be used to pay any such litigation costs for attorney 
fees until the Department submits for review a spending plan 
for such costs to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
SEC. 221. The Secretary is authorized to transfer up to 10 
percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, of funds appropriated 
for any office under the heading ‘‘Administrative Support Offices’’ 
or for any account under the general heading ‘‘Program Office 
Salaries and Expenses’’ to any other such office or account: Pro-
vided, That no appropriation for any such office or account shall 
be increased or decreased by more than 10 percent or $5,000,000, 
whichever is less, without prior written approval of the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall provide notification to such Committees three 
business days in advance of any such transfers under this section 
up to 10 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less. 
SEC. 222. (a) Any entity receiving housing assistance payments 
shall maintain decent, safe, and sanitary conditions, as determined 
by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (in this section 
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’), and comply with any standards 
under applicable State or local laws, rules, ordinances, or regula-
tions relating to the physical condition of any property covered 
under a housing assistance payment contract. 
(b) The Secretary shall take action under subsection (c) when 
a multifamily housing project with a section 8 contract or contract 
for similar project-based assistance— 
(1) receives a Uniform Physical Condition Standards 
(UPCS) score of 60 or less; or 
(2) fails to certify in writing to the Secretary within 3 
days that all Exigent Health and Safety deficiencies identified 
by the inspector at the project have been corrected. 
Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured projects 
with assistance attached to the units under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), but do not apply 
to such units assisted under section 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) 
or to public housing units assisted with capital or operating funds 
under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437g). 
(c)(1) Within 15 days of the issuance of the REAC inspection, 
the Secretary must provide the owner with a Notice of Default 
with a specified timetable, determined by the Secretary, for cor-
recting all deficiencies. The Secretary must also provide a copy 
of the Notice of Default to the tenants, the local government, 
any mortgagees, and any contract administrator. If the owner’s 
appeal results in a UPCS score of 60 or above, the Secretary 
may withdraw the Notice of Default. 
(2) At the end of the time period for correcting all deficiencies 
specified in the Notice of Default, if the owner fails to fully correct 
such deficiencies, the Secretary may— 
(A) require immediate replacement of project management 
with a management agent approved by the Secretary; 
(B) impose civil money penalties, which shall be used solely 
for the purpose of supporting safe and sanitary conditions at
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applicable properties, as designated by the Secretary, with pri-
ority given to the tenants of the property affected by the pen-
alty; 
(C) abate the section 8 contract, including partial abate-
ment, as determined by the Secretary, until all deficiencies 
have been corrected; 
(D) pursue transfer of the project to an owner, approved 
by the Secretary under established procedures, which will be 
obligated to promptly make all required repairs and to accept 
renewal of the assistance contract as long as such renewal 
is offered; 
(E) transfer the existing section 8 contract to another 
project or projects and owner or owners; 
(F) pursue exclusionary sanctions, including suspensions 
or debarments from Federal programs; 
(G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to manage the 
property and cure all project deficiencies or seek a judicial 
order of specific performance requiring the owner to cure all 
project deficiencies; 
(H) work with the owner, lender, or other related party 
to stabilize the property in an attempt to preserve the property 
through compliance, transfer of ownership, or an infusion of 
capital provided by a third-party that requires time to effec-
tuate; or 
(I) take any other regulatory or contractual remedies avail-
able as deemed necessary and appropriate by the Secretary. 
(d) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to ensure 
that project-based contracts remain in effect, subject to the exercise 
of contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of tenants 
for major threats to health and safety after written notice to the 
affected tenants. To the extent the Secretary determines, in con-
sultation with the tenants and the local government, that the 
property is not feasible for continued rental assistance payments 
under such section 8 or other programs, based on consideration 
of— 
(1) the costs of rehabilitating and operating the property 
and all available Federal, State, and local resources, including 
rent adjustments under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted 
Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’); 
and 
(2) environmental conditions that cannot be remedied in 
a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may contract for project- 
based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners 
of other existing housing properties, or provide other rental 
assistance. 
(e) The Secretary shall report quarterly on all properties cov-
ered by this section that are assessed through the Real Estate 
Assessment Center and have UPCS physical inspection scores of 
less than 60 or have received an unsatisfactory management and 
occupancy review within the past 36 months. The report shall 
include— 
(1) the enforcement actions being taken to address such 
conditions, including imposition of civil money penalties and 
termination of subsidies, and identify properties that have such 
conditions multiple times;