H. R. 2617—683 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of tenant-based 
rental assistance authorized under the United States Housing Act 
of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (in this title ‘‘the 
Act’’), not otherwise provided for, $23,599,532,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, which shall be available on October 1, 2022 
(in addition to the $4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under 
this heading that shall be available on October 1, 2022), and 
$4,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, which shall 
be available on October 1, 2023: Provided, That of the sums appro-
priated under this heading— 
(1) $23,748,420,000 shall be available for renewals of 
expiring section 8 tenant-based annual contributions contracts 
(including renewals of enhanced vouchers under any provision 
of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the 
Act) and including renewal of other special purpose incremental 
vouchers: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, from amounts provided under this paragraph and any 
carryover, the Secretary for the calendar year 2023 funding 
cycle shall provide renewal funding for each public housing 
agency based on validated voucher management system (VMS) 
leasing and cost data for the prior calendar year and by 
applying an inflation factor as established by the Secretary, 
by notice published in the Federal Register, and by making 
any necessary adjustments for the costs associated with the 
first-time renewal of vouchers under this paragraph including 
tenant protection and Choice Neighborhoods vouchers: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided under this paragraph 
may be used to fund a total number of unit months under 
lease which exceeds a public housing agency’s authorized level 
of units under contract, except for public housing agencies 
participating in the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration, 
which are instead governed in accordance with the require-
ments of the MTW demonstration program or their MTW agree-
ments, if any: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, to 
the extent necessary to stay within the amount specified under 
this paragraph (except as otherwise modified under this para-
graph), prorate each public housing agency’s allocation other-
wise established pursuant to this paragraph: Provided further, 
That except as provided in the following provisos, the entire 
amount specified under this paragraph (except as otherwise 
modified under this paragraph) shall be obligated to the public 
housing agencies based on the allocation and pro rata method 
described above, and the Secretary shall notify public housing 
agencies of their annual budget by the latter of 60 days after 
enactment of this Act or March 1, 2023: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may extend the notification period with 
the prior written approval of the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations: Provided further, That public housing agen-
cies participating in the MTW demonstration shall be funded 
in accordance with the requirements of the MTW demonstration 
program or their MTW agreements, if any, and shall be subject 
to the same pro rata adjustments under the preceding provisos: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may offset public housing
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agencies’ calendar year 2023 allocations based on the excess 
amounts of public housing agencies’ net restricted assets 
accounts, including HUD-held programmatic reserves (in 
accordance with VMS data in calendar year 2022 that is 
verifiable and complete), as determined by the Secretary: Pro-
vided further, That public housing agencies participating in 
the MTW demonstration shall also be subject to the offset, 
as determined by the Secretary, excluding amounts subject 
to the single fund budget authority provisions of their MTW 
agreements, from the agencies’ calendar year 2023 MTW 
funding allocation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
use any offset referred to in the preceding two provisos through-
out the calendar year to prevent the termination of rental 
assistance for families as the result of insufficient funding, 
as determined by the Secretary, and to avoid or reduce the 
proration of renewal funding allocations: Provided further, That 
up to $200,000,000 shall be available only: 
(A) for adjustments in the allocations for public housing 
agencies, after application for an adjustment by a public 
housing agency that experienced a significant increase, as 
determined by the Secretary, in renewal costs of vouchers 
resulting from unforeseen circumstances or from portability 
under section 8(r) of the Act; 
(B) for vouchers that were not in use during the pre-
vious 12-month period in order to be available to meet 
a commitment pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of the Act, or 
an adjustment for a funding obligation not yet expended 
in the previous calendar year for a MTW-eligible activity 
to develop affordable housing for an agency added to the 
MTW demonstration under the expansion authority pro-
vided in section 239 of the Transportation, Housing and 
Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2016 (division L of Public Law 114–113); 
(C) for adjustments for costs associated with HUD– 
Veterans 
Affairs 
Supportive 
Housing 
(HUD–VASH) 
vouchers; 
(D) for public housing agencies that despite taking 
reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the 
Secretary, would otherwise be required to terminate rental 
assistance for families as a result of insufficient funding; 
(E) for adjustments in the allocations for public housing 
agencies that— 
(i) are leasing a lower-than-average percentage of 
their authorized vouchers, 
(ii) have low amounts of budget authority in their 
net restricted assets accounts and HUD-held pro-
grammatic reserves, relative to other agencies, and 
(iii) are not participating in the Moving to Work 
demonstration, to enable such agencies to lease more 
vouchers; 
(F) for withheld payments in accordance with section 
8(o)(8)(A)(ii) of the Act for months in the previous calendar 
year that were subsequently paid by the public housing 
agency after the agency’s actual costs were validated; and 
(G) for public housing agencies that have experienced 
increased costs or loss of units in an area for which the 
President declared a disaster under title IV of the Robert
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T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5170 et seq.): 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate amounts 
under the preceding proviso based on need, as determined 
by the Secretary; 
(2) $337,000,000 shall be available for section 8 rental 
assistance for relocation and replacement of housing units that 
are demolished or disposed of pursuant to section 18 of the 
Act, conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under section 
8, relocation of witnesses (including victims of violent crimes) 
in connection with efforts to combat crime in public and assisted 
housing pursuant to a request from a law enforcement or 
prosecution agency, enhanced vouchers under any provision 
of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the 
Act, Choice Neighborhood vouchers, mandatory and voluntary 
conversions, and tenant protection assistance including replace-
ment and relocation assistance or for project-based assistance 
to prevent the displacement of unassisted elderly tenants cur-
rently residing in section 202 properties financed between 1959 
and 1974 that are refinanced pursuant to Public Law 106– 
569, as amended, or under the authority as provided under 
this Act: Provided, That when a public housing development 
is submitted for demolition or disposition under section 18 
of the Act, the Secretary may provide section 8 rental assistance 
when the units pose an imminent health and safety risk to 
residents: Provided further, That the Secretary may provide 
section 8 rental assistance from amounts made available under 
this paragraph for units assisted under a project-based subsidy 
contract funded under the ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’’ 
heading under this title where the owner has received a Notice 
of Default and the units pose an imminent health and safety 
risk to residents: Provided further, That of the amounts made 
available under this paragraph, no less than $5,000,000 may 
be available to provide tenant protection assistance, not other-
wise provided under this paragraph, to residents residing in 
low vacancy areas and who may have to pay rents greater 
than 30 percent of household income, as the result of: (A) 
the maturity of a HUD-insured, HUD-held or section 202 loan 
that requires the permission of the Secretary prior to loan 
prepayment; (B) the expiration of a rental assistance contract 
for which the tenants are not eligible for enhanced voucher 
or tenant protection assistance under existing law; or (C) the 
expiration of affordability restrictions accompanying a mortgage 
or preservation program administered by the Secretary: Pro-
vided further, That such tenant protection assistance made 
available under the preceding proviso may be provided under 
the authority of section 8(t) or section 8(o)(13) of the Act: 
Provided further, That any tenant protection voucher made 
available from amounts under this paragraph shall not be 
reissued by any public housing agency, except the replacement 
vouchers as defined by the Secretary by notice, when the initial 
family that received any such voucher no longer receives such 
voucher, and the authority for any public housing agency to 
issue any such voucher shall cease to exist: Provided further, 
That the Secretary may only provide replacement vouchers 
for units that were occupied within the previous 24 months
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that cease to be available as assisted housing, subject only 
to the availability of funds; 
(3) $2,777,612,000 shall be available for administrative and 
other expenses of public housing agencies in administering 
the section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program, of which 
up to $30,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to allocate 
to public housing agencies that need additional funds to admin-
ister their section 8 programs, including fees associated with 
section 8 tenant protection rental assistance, the administration 
of disaster related vouchers, HUD–VASH vouchers, and other 
special purpose incremental vouchers: Provided, That no less 
than $2,747,612,000 of the amount provided in this paragraph 
shall be allocated to public housing agencies for the calendar 
year 2023 funding cycle based on section 8(q) of the Act (and 
related Appropriation Act provisions) as in effect immediately 
before the enactment of the Quality Housing and Work Respon-
sibility Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–276): Provided further, 
That if the amounts made available under this paragraph are 
insufficient to pay the amounts determined under the preceding 
proviso, the Secretary may decrease the amounts allocated 
to agencies by a uniform percentage applicable to all agencies 
receiving funding under this paragraph or may, to the extent 
necessary to provide full payment of amounts determined under 
the preceding proviso, utilize unobligated balances, including 
recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated 
to the Department of Housing and Urban Development under 
this heading from prior fiscal years, excluding special purpose 
vouchers, notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts 
were appropriated: Provided further, That all public housing 
agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall be 
funded in accordance with the requirements of the MTW dem-
onstration program or their MTW agreements, if any, and 
shall be subject to the same uniform percentage decrease as 
under the preceding proviso: Provided further, That amounts 
provided under this paragraph shall be only for activities 
related to the provision of tenant-based rental assistance 
authorized under section 8, including related development 
activities; 
(4) $606,500,000 shall be available for the renewal of ten-
ant-based assistance contracts under section 811 of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
8013), including necessary administrative expenses: Provided, 
That administrative and other expenses of public housing agen-
cies in administering the special purpose vouchers in this para-
graph shall be funded under the same terms and be subject 
to the same pro rata reduction as the percent decrease for 
administrative and other expenses to public housing agencies 
under paragraph (3) of this heading: Provided further, That 
up to $10,000,000 shall be available only— 
(A) for adjustments in the allocation for public housing 
agencies, after applications for an adjustment by a public 
housing agency that experienced a significant increase, as 
determined by the Secretary, in Mainstream renewal costs 
resulting from unforeseen circumstances; and 
(B) for public housing agencies that despite taking 
reasonable cost savings measures, as determined by the 
Secretary, would otherwise be required to terminate the