Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
TITLE I—ADDRESSING THE HOUSING SHORTAGE 
Sec. 101. Housing Trust Fund. 
Sec. 102. Section 202 supportive housing for the elderly program. 
Sec. 103. Section 811 supportive housing for people with disabilities. 
Sec. 104. HOME Investment Partnerships Program. 
Sec. 105. Technical assistance for navigating Federal and State housing fund-
ing sources. 
Sec. 106. Permanent authorization of United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness and establishment of racial equity commission. 
TITLE II—ADDRESSING HOMELESSNESS 
Sec. 201. Expansion of housing choice voucher program. 
Sec. 202. Project-based rental assistance. 
Sec. 203. Emergency solutions grant program. 
Sec. 204. Continuum of care grant program. 
Sec. 205. Program administration, training, technical assistance, and capacity 
building. 
Sec. 206. GAO report on eviction data. 
TITLE III—INVESTING IN INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY-DRIVEN 
SOLUTIONS 
Sec. 301. Safe parking program grants. 
Sec. 302. Hotel, motel, and commercial acquisitions and conversions to perma-
nent housing. 
Sec. 303. Eviction protection grant program. 
Sec. 304. Mobile crisis intervention teams grants. 
Sec. 305. Library consortium pilot grants. 
Sec. 306. Report on inclusive transit-oriented development to enhance climate 
mitigation and disaster resiliency. 
Sec. 307. Establishing an innovation pilot within the carbon reduction program. 
Sec. 308. Making infill housing and other transportation efficiency projects eli-
gible for RAISE grants. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AT
RISK
OF
HOMELESSNESS.—The term 
‘‘at risk of homelessness’’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 401 of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360). 
(2) HOMELESS.—The term ‘‘homeless’’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 103 of the 
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McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11302). 
(3) JUSTICE
SYSTEM-INVOLVED.—The term 
‘‘justice system-involved’’ includes individuals who 
are or have been incarcerated or held in municipal, 
State, or Federal jails, prisons, juvenile facilities, or 
other types of detention facilities, who have been 
held in pre-trial or post-conviction detention, who 
have an arrest or conviction regardless of whether 
they were detained or incarcerated, who have been 
held in immigration detention, or, with respect to 
youth, who are or have been held in the custody of 
the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services. 
(4) POPULATION AT HIGHER RISK OF HOME-
LESSNESS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘population 
at higher risk of homelessness’’ means a group 
of individuals that is defined by a common 
characteristic and that has been found to expe-
rience homelessness, housing instability, or to 
be cost-burdened at a rate higher than that of 
the general public. 
(B) HIGHER RATE.—Information that may 
be used in demonstrating such a higher rate in-
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cludes data generated by the Federal Govern-
ment, by State or municipal governments, by 
peer-reviewed research, and by organizations 
having expertise in working with or advocating 
on behalf of homeless, housing unstable, or 
cost-burdened groups. 
(C) INCLUDED POPULATIONS.—Such term 
shall include populations for which such higher 
rate has already been demonstrated, including 
Asian, Black, Latino, Native American, Native 
Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and other commu-
nities of color, individuals with disabilities, in-
cluding mental health disabilities, elderly indi-
viduals, foster and former foster youth, lesbian, 
gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individ-
uals, gender non-binary and gender non-con-
forming individuals, veterans, and such addi-
tional communities and individuals as the Sec-
retary may include after receiving public com-
ment. 
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
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