IIB 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5793 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 11, 2018 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment to carry out a housing choice voucher mobility 
demonstration to encourage families receiving such 
voucher assistance to move to lower-poverty areas and 
expand access to opportunity areas. 
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 ‘‘Housing Choice Vouch-
er Mobility Demonstration Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER MOBILITY DEM-
ONSTRATION. 
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Secretary’’) may carry out a mobility demonstration pro-
gram to enable public housing agencies to administer 
housing choice voucher assistance under section 8(o) of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)) in a manner designed to encourage families re-
ceiving such voucher assistance to move to lower-poverty 
areas and expand access to opportunity areas. 
(b) SELECTION OF PHAS.— 
(1) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish requirements for public housing agencies to 
participate in the demonstration program under this 
section, which shall provide that the following public 
housing agencies may participate: 
(A) Public housing agencies that to-
gether— 
(i) serve areas with high concentra-
tions of holders of rental assistance vouch-
ers under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) 
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in poor, low-opportunity neighborhoods; 
and 
(ii) have an adequate number of mod-
erately priced rental units in higher-oppor-
tunity areas. 
(B) Planned consortia or partial consortia 
of public housing agencies that— 
(i) include at least one agency with a 
high-performing Family Self-Sufficiency 
(FSS) program; and 
(ii) will enable participating families 
to continue in such program if they relo-
cate to the jurisdiction served by any other 
agency of the consortium. 
(C) Planned consortia or partial consortia 
of public housing agencies that— 
(i) serve jurisdictions within a single 
region; 
(ii) include one or more small agen-
cies; and 
(iii) will consolidate mobility focused 
operations. 
(D) Such other public housing agencies as 
the Secretary considers appropriate. 
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(2) SELECTION CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall 
establish competitive selection criteria for public 
housing agencies eligible under paragraph (1) to 
participate in the demonstration program under this 
section. 
(3) RANDOM
SELECTION
OF
FAMILIES.—The 
Secretary may require participating agencies to use 
a randomized selection process to select among the 
families eligible to receive mobility assistance under 
the demonstration program. 
(c) REGIONAL HOUSING MOBILITY PLAN.—The Sec-
retary shall require each public housing agency applying 
to participate in the demonstration program under this 
section to submit a Regional Housing Mobility Plan (in 
this section referred to as a ‘‘Plan’’), which shall— 
(1) identify the public housing agencies that 
will participate under the Plan and the number of 
vouchers each participating agency will make avail-
able out of their existing programs in connection 
with the demonstration; 
(2) identify any community-based organizations, 
nonprofit organizations, businesses, and other enti-
ties that will participate under the Plan and describe 
the commitments for such participation made by 
each such entity; 
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