I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7782 
To provide economic empowerment opportunities in the United States through 
the modernization of public housing, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 21, 2024 
Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ (for herself, Mrs. RAMIREZ, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. 
BOWMAN, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. NADLER, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. TLAIB, 
Mr. KHANNA, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. ROBERT GARCIA of California, Ms. 
LEE of Pennsylvania, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. PINGREE, 
Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ, Ms. BUSH, Mrs. 
WATSON COLEMAN, Ms. LEE of California, Mrs. DINGELL, Ms. NORTON, 
Mr. GOMEZ, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. STANSBURY, Mr. 
MULLIN, Mr. RASKIN, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. CLARKE of New 
York, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. BALINT, 
Mr. TONKO, Ms. MENG, Mr. CASAR, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. TORRES of New 
York, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, Mr. 
MEEKS, Mr. FROST, Mr. LIEU, Mr. CARTER of Louisiana, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, 
Mr. THANEDAR, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Ms. OMAR, Mr. SWALWELL, Ms. 
MCCOLLUM, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. IVEY, Mr. COHEN, 
and Mr. TAKANO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To provide economic empowerment opportunities in the 
United States through the modernization of public hous-
ing, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Green New Deal for 
Public Housing Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 
The purpose of this Act is— 
(1) to stimulate, gather, and develop the work-
force capacity, tools, financing, and materials needed 
to rehabilitate, upgrade, modernize, maintain, staff, 
and transition public housing; 
(2) to rehabilitate and preserve public housing 
that is severely distressed and causing residents to 
be exposed to unhealthy and unsafe environments; 
(3) to upgrade and equip all public housing 
with cutting-edge materials, infrastructure, and all- 
electric appliances made in the United States in 
order to improve energy efficiency, water quality, 
and material living standards in public housing and 
to support United States manufacturing; 
(4) to ensure that public housing laws maximize 
tenant participation and management by low- and 
very low-income individuals in the rehabilitation, up-
grade, and transition of public housing through edu-
cation, training, and jobs; and 
(5) to modernize the entire public housing stock 
of the United States, as swiftly and seamlessly as 
possible, into highly energy-efficient homes that 
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produce on-site, or procure, enough carbon-free re-
newable energy to meet total energy consumption 
annually. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible enti-
ty’’ means— 
(A) a public housing agency; 
(B) an Indian tribe or a tribally designated 
housing entity that is eligible to receive assist-
ance under the Native American Housing As-
sistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 
(25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.); and 
(C) the Department of Hawaiian Home 
Lands, as defined in section 801 of the Native 
American Housing Assistance and Self-Deter-
mination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4221). 
(2) ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE
COMMUNITY.— 
The term ‘‘environmental justice community’’ means 
a community with significant representation of com-
munities of color, low-income communities, or Tribal 
and indigenous communities, that experiences, or is 
at risk of experiencing, higher or more adverse 
human health or environmental effects. 
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(3) INDIAN
TRIBE; 
TRIBALLY
DESIGNATED 
HOUSING ENTITY.—The terms ‘‘Indian tribe’’ and 
‘‘tribally designated housing entity’’ have the mean-
ings given those terms in section 4 of the Native 
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determina-
tion Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4103). 
(4) PUBLIC HOUSING.—The term ‘‘public hous-
ing’’— 
(A) has the meaning given the term in sec-
tion 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)); and 
(B) includes— 
(i) any dwelling unit owned by an In-
dian tribe that is or was a dwelling unit in 
public housing; 
(ii) any low-income housing dwelling 
unit described in section 302(b)(1) of the 
Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 
4152(b)(1)); 
(iii) any dwelling unit assisted under 
section 802 of the Native American Hous-
ing Assistance and Self-Determination Act 
of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4222); and 
(iv) any dwelling unit that— 
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(I) was a low-income housing 
dwelling unit described in section 
302(b)(1) of the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Deter-
mination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 
4152(b)(1)); and 
(II) is rented only to households 
with an income that is not more than 
80 percent of the area median income. 
(5) PUBLIC
HOUSING
AGENCY.—The term 
‘‘public housing agency’’ has the meaning given the 
term in section 3(b) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)). 
(6) RENEWABLE ENERGY.—The term ‘‘renew-
able energy’’ means— 
(A) utility-, community-, and small-scale 
photovoltaic and thermal solar energy; 
(B) utility- and small-scale wind energy; 
(C) geothermal energy; 
(D) microturbine hydroelectricity; 
(E) energy efficiency; 
(F) building electrification; 
(G) energy storage; 
(H) microgrids; and 
(I) modern distribution grid infrastructure. 
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(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
(8) SUBSIDIZED
HOUSING
RESIDENT-OWNED 
BUSINESS.—The term ‘‘subsidized housing resident- 
owned business’’ means a business concern that— 
(A) provides economic opportunities, as de-
fined in section 3(e) of the Housing and Urban 
Development 
Act 
of 
1968 
(12 
U.S.C. 
1701u(e)); and 
(B) is owned by subsidized housing resi-
dents. 
(9) ZERO-CARBON HOME.—The term ‘‘zero-car-
bon home’’ means a highly energy-efficient home 
that produces on-site, or procures, enough carbon- 
free renewable energy to meet the total annual en-
ergy consumption of the home. 
SEC. 4. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND SENSE OF CON-
GRESS FOR IMPROVED ARCHITECTURAL DE-
SIGN IN GOVERNMENT HOUSING PROGRAMS. 
Section 4 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 1701v) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘SEC. 4. IMPROVED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IN GOVERN-
MENT HOUSING PROGRAMS. 
‘‘(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
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‘‘(1) if Federal aid is to make its full commu-
nity-wide contribution toward improving our urban 
and rural environments, Federal aid must have a 
greater impact on improvements in architectural de-
sign; and 
‘‘(2) even within the necessary budget limita-
tions on housing for low- and moderate-income fami-
lies, architectural design and environmental perform-
ance can be improved not only to make the housing 
more livable, but also to better suit the needs of oc-
cupants including human and environmental health, 
zero carbon emissions, well-being, accessibility, and 
equity. 
‘‘(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that in the administration of housing programs that 
assist in the provision of housing for low- and moderate- 
income families, emphasis should be given to— 
‘‘(1) encouraging good architectural design that 
yields maximal environmental performance and ad-
heres to accessibility guidelines established in ac-
cordance with the Americans With Disabilities Act 
of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.) as an essential 
component of such housing, and adequate staffing to 
maintain that design and environmental perform-
ance; and 
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‘‘(2) developing, with opportunities for resident 
involvement, housing that will be of such quality as 
to reflect the highest international architectural 
standards and the architectural standards of the 
neighborhood and the community in which it is situ-
ated, consistent with prudent budgeting.’’. 
SEC. 5. DECLARATION OF POLICY. 
Section 2(a) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437(a)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) DECLARATION OF POLICY.—It is the policy of 
the United States— 
‘‘(1) to modernize the intersections of Federal 
and local government by employing the funds and 
credit of the United States, as provided in this 
Act— 
‘‘(A) to guarantee the right to housing for 
every individual; 
‘‘(B) to assist States and political subdivi-
sions of States in ensuring that— 
‘‘(i) all housing in the United States 
is habitable, highly energy-efficient, and 
safe; and 
‘‘(ii) housing conditions lead to good 
health, security, and adequate protection 
from the economic fears relating to old 
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age, disability, sickness, accident, and un-
employment; and 
‘‘(C) to protect, maintain, preserve, and 
expand public housing as a sustainable safety 
net for all people; 
‘‘(2) that it is the responsibility of the Federal 
Government, in conjunction with public housing 
agencies, to incentivize, promote, and protect the 
independent, collaborative, and collective actions of 
public housing residents and other private citizens to 
develop housing in a manner that strengthens entire 
neighborhoods; and 
‘‘(3) that the Federal Government should act 
and create new public housing where there is a seri-
ous need that the free market cannot address or is 
not addressing responsibly and support the staffing 
needed to maintain and sustain the quality of this 
public housing.’’. 
SEC. 6. GREEN NEW DEAL PUBLIC HOUSING GRANTS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF GRANT PROGRAMS.— 
(1) GRANTS FOR PUBLIC HOUSING COMMUNITY 
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of Labor, shall es-
tablish a grant program that provides amounts 
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to eligible entities to facilitate workforce devel-
opment projects and high-income employment 
transition at public housing. 
(B) PREFERENCE.—In awarding grants 
under this paragraph, the Secretary shall give 
preference to applications submitted by— 
(i) eligible entities described in sub-
paragraph (B) or (C) of section 3(1); 
(ii) eligible entities that have formed 
partnerships with an existing registered 
apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeship, intern-
ship, vocal rehabilitation agency, labor- 
management partnership, or other partner-
ships with labor organizations; 
(iii) eligible entities that demonstrate 
a capacity to facilitate a workforce develop-
ment program that leads to— 
(I) the development of career and 
related skills, including general edu-
cational development support and fi-
nancial and economic empowerment 
education; 
(II) direct entry to registered ap-
prenticeship programs; 
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(III) certification or associate de-
gree acquisition; 
(IV) technical assistance and re-
sources for subsidized housing resi-
dent-owned businesses for purposes of 
compliance with the requirements 
under section 3 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 
U.S.C. 1701u), including— 
(aa) legal or compliance 
services on behalf of subsidized 
housing 
resident-owned 
busi-
nesses for purposes of helping 
them access and apply for gov-
ernment procurement and con-
tracting opportunities; 
(bb) education on starting 
and sustaining a business; 
(cc) accessing insurance and 
bonds; and 
(dd) demonstrating capacity 
and sustainable operations; 
(V) training and development of 
skills necessary for career develop-
ment in the fields, trades, and services 
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reasonably determined during the first 
public comment period held in accord-
ance with subsection (b)(3) to be of 
interest to public housing residents; 
(VI) educational and organiza-
tional tools for public housing resi-
dents in order to advance the models 
of worker cooperatives and collective 
bargaining; 
(VII) education, engagement, and 
empowerment resources to help both 
residents of public housing and local 
low- and very low-income individuals 
avail themselves of opportunities made 
available under the workforce develop-
ment program, including education, 
engagement, and empowerment re-
sources 
provided 
in 
partnership 
with— 
(aa) a local entity that oper-
ates a Family Self-Sufficiency 
program under section 23 of the 
United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u); and 
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(bb) community-based orga-
nizations that demonstrate a 
commitment to and history of or-
ganizing with public housing resi-
dents; 
(VIII) innovative design partner-
ships with local schools and architec-
tural firms; 
(IX) training and employment 
opportunities reserved specifically for 
local low- and very low-income people 
that were formerly incarcerated; 
(X) stipends valued at not less 
than $250 per week to individuals 
participating in the workforce develop-
ment program; and 
(XI) childcare and financial lit-
eracy courses for individuals partici-
pating in the workforce development 
program; and 
(iv) eligible entities in the construc-
tion or maintenance sector seeking to carry 
out a project to develop pre-apprentice-
ships that prepare individuals for accept-
ance into registered programs in that sec-
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tor, as well as technical and vocational col-
leges. 
(C) COMPLIANCE
MANAGERS.—Not more 
than 10 percent of the amount of a grant re-
ceived by an eligible entity under this para-
graph may be used by an eligible entity to hire 
or otherwise retain reporting and compliance 
managers with sufficient expertise to ensure 
that the eligible entity can comply with the re-
quirements of section 3 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1968 (12 U.S.C. 
1701u). 
(D) ADDITIONAL ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—In 
addition to the eligible entities described in sec-
tion 3(1), the following shall be eligible for 
grants under this paragraph: 
(i) An organization that has dem-
onstrated effectiveness in providing adult 
education and literacy activities, which 
may include— 
(I) a local educational agency; 
(II) a community-based organiza-
tion or faith-based organization; 
(III) a volunteer literacy organi-
zation; 
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(IV) an institution of higher edu-
cation, as defined in section 101 of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1001); 
(V) a public or private nonprofit 
agency; 
(VI) a library; 
(VII) a public housing authority; 
(VIII) a nonprofit institution 
that is not described in any of sub-
clauses (I) through (VII) and has the 
ability to provide adult education and 
literacy activities to eligible individ-
uals; 
(IX) a consortium or coalition of 
the agencies, organizations, institu-
tions, libraries, or authorities de-
scribed in any of subclauses (I) 
through (VII); and 
(X) a partnership between an 
employer and an entity described in 
any of subclauses (I) through (VIII). 
(ii) Labor organizations. 
(iii) Nonprofit organizations. 
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(E) PARTNERSHIP WITH DEPARTMENT OF 
LABOR.—The Secretary shall partner with the 
Secretary of Labor to develop all grants in this 
section, in particular— 
(i) gathering expertise and providing 
guidance on worker training funds; and 
(ii) ensuring that work requirements 
do not become a condition of accessing 
public housing. 
(2) GREEN NEW DEAL FOR PUBLIC HOUSING 
GRANTS.— 
(A) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Secretary 
shall establish a grant program that provides 
amounts to eligible entities for the eligible ac-
tivities described in subparagraph (B). 
(B) ELIGIBLE
ACTIVITIES.—The eligible 
activities described in this subparagraph are— 
(i) conducting physical needs assess-
ments and subsequent deep energy retro-
fits in public housing, including— 
(I) retrofits for— 
(aa) 
energy-efficient 
win-
dows; 
(bb) 
super 
insulation 
of 
roofs and exterior walls, includ-
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ing the addition of new cladding 
to buildings and the rerouting of 
plumbing and electricity; 
(cc) electrification of water 
heating and building heating sys-
tems using electric heat pumps; 
and 
(dd) electric heat pumps to 
provide air conditioning, where 
feasible; 
(II) 
strategies 
to 
increase 
airtightness of building envelope, in-
cluding air sealant paints; and 
(III) acquisition and installation 
of heat-recovery ventilation systems; 
(ii) repairs and upgrades to public 
housing to ensure compliance with the 
physical condition standards under section 
5.703 of title 24, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, or any successor regulation; 
(iii) upgrading, replacing, and improv-
ing public housing to energy efficiency, 
building electrification, including— 
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(gg) drinking water stand-
ards of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency for organic and 
inorganic contaminants, radio-
nuclides, and microbiological con-
taminants; and 
(hh) any other Environ-
mental Protection Agency stand-
ard adopted under the Safe 
Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300f et seq.); 
(iv) building, expanding, and main-
taining community energy generation in 
public housing, including the construction 
of and ongoing costs associated with— 
(I) renewable energy rooftops; 
(II) renewable energy generation; 
(III) photovoltaic glass windows; 
(IV) the bulk purchase of clean 
energy grid supply from energy utili-
ties; and 
(V) community-scale energy stor-
age systems; 
(v) establishing or expanding recycling 
and zero-waste programs in public housing, 
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including the recycling of appliances and 
machines that were replaced through ac-
tivities described in clause (iii); 
(vi) community resilience and sustain-
ability projects in public housing, includ-
ing— 
(I) the purchase and installation 
of energy storage, including batteries, 
flywheels, 
compressed 
air, 
and 
pumped hydroelectric or thermal en-
ergy storage, in order to ensure en-
ergy backup of not less than 48 hours 
in the event of an emergency or dis-
aster; 
(II) the construction of childcare 
centers and ongoing costs associated 
with childcare centers; 
(III) the construction of senior 
centers and ongoing costs associated 
with senior centers; 
(IV) the construction of commu-
nity gardens and ongoing costs associ-
ated with community gardens; 
(V) the maintenance of entire 
public housing developments; 
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(VI) the installation of publicly 
owned high speed internet in order to 
provide universal internet access for 
all residents with an upload speed of 
not 
less 
than 
100Mbps 
and 
a 
download speed of not less than 
100Mbps, and the ongoing costs asso-
ciated with providing that internet in-
frastructure and access; 
(VII) the establishment or im-
provement, and painting, of commu-
nity centers and other shared commu-
nity spaces, the personnel of which 
shall earn the higher of— 
(aa) 
the 
local 
prevailing 
wage; or 
(bb) a wage of $17 per hour; 
(VIII) the establishment or im-
provement of dedicated infrastructure 
for transportation by bicycle, includ-
ing lanes, parking spots, and the bulk 
purchase of enough bicycles to offer 1 
bicycle to every low- and very low-in-
come public housing resident; 
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(IX) the deployment of electric 
vehicle charging infrastructure for 
public housing residents and visitors; 
and 
(X) the establishment and leasing 
of commercial activity that offers pub-
lic housing residents on-site access to 
goods and services, including good- 
quality healthcare clinics, dental clin-
ics, bookstores, learning and tutoring 
centers, and affordable organic gro-
ceries; and 
(vii) construction and ongoing costs 
associated with climate adaptation and 
emergency disaster response for public 
housing, including— 
(I) integrated solutions that com-
bine better walls, heating, cooling, 
ventilation, solar, and storage into a 
single easy-to-install and affordable 
retrofit for public housing; 
(II) additional solar and storage 
on site, or through a local community 
microgrid, in order to allow residents 
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to access essential energy during 
power outages; 
(III) insulating and eliminating 
air leakage in order to ensure that in-
dividual dwelling units can retain a 
safe temperature during a power out-
age until power is restored or emer-
gency assistance arrives; and 
(IV) installing rigid foam wall in-
sulation in hurricane and earthquake- 
prone areas in order to create shear 
walls to resist structural damage from 
walls tilting or falling during high 
winds and earthquakes. 
(b) GRANT APPLICATION.— 
(1) REQUIRED CONTENTS.—As a condition of 
receiving a grant under subsection (a), each eligible 
entity shall include in the grant application sub-
mitted to the Secretary— 
(A) a signed acknowledgment indicating a 
commitment to transition all public housing 
owned or managed by the eligible entity into 
zero-carbon homes not later than 10 years after 
the date on which the eligible entity receives the 
grant; 
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(B) a signed acknowledgment indicating a 
commitment to hiring, training, and retaining 
needed public housing agency employees associ-
ated with the activities of the grant; 
(C) a full accounting, including pre-ap-
proved financing plans and post-completion ex-
pense reports, of the amount of funds required 
to complete the activities under the grant, 
under enforcement by the Secretary, which 
shall— 
(i) be complete and reasonably cal-
culated to accomplish the purposes of this 
Act; 
(ii) include costs related to complying 
with local wage and labor laws; 
(iii) include the amount of funds ex-
pended by the eligible entity to comply 
with the resident and community engage-
ment requirements under paragraph (3); 
and 
(iv) be updated and submitted to Con-
gress on a quarterly basis; and 
(v) include a 10-year decarbonization 
plan meeting decarbonization requirements 
determined by the Secretary; 
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kjohnson on DSK7ZCZBW3PROD with $$_JOB