priate, diverse means of support, including technical 
or financial assistance to public-private partnerships, 
grants, direct loans, seed credit, contracted technical 
services, investment insurance, loan guarantees, and 
other forms of assistance; 
(2) to carry out paragraph (1) during fiscal 
year 2009 through the use of existing United States 
Government programs, implementing authorities, 
and organizations, including— 
(A) specialized organizational units of the 
United States Agency for International Devel-
opment, including the Urban Programs Team 
(EGAT/PR/UP), the Development Credit Au-
thority (EGAT/DC/DCA), the Land Resources 
Management Team (EGAT/NRM/LRM), the 
Water Team (EGAT/NRM/W), the Office of In-
frastructure and Engineering (EGAT/IE), and 
the Engineering Services Team (EGAT/I&E/ 
ES); 
(B) the Millennium Challenge Corporation 
(MCC); and 
(C) other United States Government agen-
cies with relevant technical expertise or policy 
mandates pertaining to urban development and 
housing in foreign countries; and 
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(3) to strengthen and enhance the operational 
capabilities and capacities of United States Govern-
ment programs, implementing authorities, and orga-
nizations described in subparagraphs (A), (B), and 
(C) of paragraph (2) in furtherance of the purposes 
and objectives described in subsection (a)(1), includ-
ing efforts to increase their manpower, diversity of 
expertise, and levels of funding, and to enhance their 
ability to jointly coordinate and collaborate in car-
rying out such purposes and objectives. 
SEC. 5. AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. 
(a) STRATEGY.—The President, acting through the 
Secretary of State and the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development, shall de-
velop a strategy to provide affordable housing and sustain-
able urban development in developing countries. 
(b) CONSULTATION.—The strategy required by sub-
section (a) shall be developed in part through a process 
of consultation between the Administrator of the United 
States Agency for International Development and the 
heads of units of such Agency and other United States 
Government agencies with relevant technical expertise or 
policy mandates pertaining to urban development and 
housing in foreign countries, and shall draw upon best 
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practices and successful models of urban development un-
dertaken or developed by international intergovernmental 
organizations, international finance institutions, recipient 
countries, United States and international nongovern-
mental organizations, and other appropriate entities. 
(c) CONTENT.—The strategy required by the sub-
section (a) shall include or address— 
(1) a review and assessment of existing or past 
United States programs and foreign assistance strat-
egies designed to increase access to basic shelter and 
affordable housing in developing countries, extending 
affordable and equitable access to safe water, sanita-
tion, and solid waste removal services, and shared 
communal infrastructure, such as sidewalks, roads, 
public lighting, enhancing security of real property 
use, lease, and ownership rights; 
(2) a review and assessment of small scale, 
grassroots, and community-based efforts that have 
successfully improved access to basic shelter and 
urban services; 
(3) a process to define short- and long-term ob-
jectives 
and 
performance 
measures 
by 
which 
progress should be measured; 
(4) measures necessary to improve and expand 
United States programs and foreign assistance strat-
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egies in existence on the date of enactment of this 
Act that address urban development issues in for-
eign countries; 
(5) operational plans to improve the ability of 
United States foreign assistance agencies to develop 
and implement programs described in section 4 of 
this Act, including through support for innovative 
international mechanisms; 
(6) a plan for integrating into the broader stra-
tegic foreign assistance plans of the Department of 
State and United Stated Agency for International 
Development the programs and objectives described 
in section 4 of this Act; and 
(7) a plan for providing long-term United 
States support for sustainable urban growth and de-
velopment initiatives in developing countries involv-
ing a process of regular coordination between United 
States Government agencies with relevant technical 
expertise or policy mandates, where appropriate, in-
cluding the United States Agency for International 
Development, the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, the Department of the Treas-
ury, and the Overseas Private Investment Corpora-
tion, and drawing upon the expertise, whenever pos-
sible, of United States-based mayors and profes-
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sionals in community, public and banking sectors, 
major United States private foundations, and United 
Nations organizations and multilateral development 
banks, among others. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than 12 months after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State 
shall submit to Congress a report that describes the strat-
egy required by subsection (a). 
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
year 2009 and each subsequent fiscal year such sums as 
may be necessary to carry out this Act. 
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