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rental assistance for Mainstream families as a result of 
insufficient funding: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall allocate amounts 
under the preceding proviso based on need, as determined 
by the Secretary: Provided further, That upon turnover, section 
811 special purpose vouchers funded under this heading in 
this or prior Acts, or under any other heading in prior Acts, 
shall be provided to non-elderly persons with disabilities; 
(5) Of the amounts provided under paragraph (1), up to 
$7,500,000 shall be available for rental assistance and associ-
ated administrative fees for Tribal HUD–VASH to serve Native 
American veterans that are homeless or at-risk of homelessness 
living on or near a reservation or other Indian areas: Provided, 
That such amount shall be made available for renewal grants 
to recipients that received assistance under prior Acts under 
the Tribal HUD–VASH program: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall be authorized to specify criteria for renewal 
grants, including data on the utilization of assistance reported 
by grant recipients: Provided further, That such assistance 
shall be administered in accordance with program requirements 
under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Deter-
mination Act of 1996 and modeled after the HUD–VASH pro-
gram: Provided further, That the Secretary shall be authorized 
to waive, or specify alternative requirements for any provision 
of any statute or regulation that the Secretary administers 
in connection with the use of funds made available under 
this paragraph (except for requirements related to fair housing, 
nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environment), upon 
a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative 
requirements are necessary for the effective delivery and 
administration of such assistance: Provided further, That grant 
recipients shall report to the Secretary on utilization of such 
rental assistance and other program data, as prescribed by 
the Secretary: Provided further, That the Secretary may reallo-
cate, as determined by the Secretary, amounts returned or 
recaptured from awards under the Tribal HUD–VASH program 
under prior Acts to existing recipients under the Tribal HUD– 
VASH program; 
(6) $50,000,000 shall be available for incremental rental 
voucher assistance for use through a supported housing pro-
gram administered in conjunction with the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs as authorized under section 8(o)(19) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development shall make such funding 
available, notwithstanding section 203 (competition provision) 
of this title, to public housing agencies that partner with eligible 
VA Medical Centers or other entities as designated by the 
Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, based on 
geographical need for such assistance as identified by the Sec-
retary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, public housing 
agency administrative performance, and other factors as speci-
fied by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs: Provided further, That the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development may waive, or specify alternative require-
ments for (in consultation with the Secretary of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs), any provision of any statute or regulation
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that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development admin-
isters in connection with the use of funds made available under 
this paragraph (except for requirements related to fair housing, 
nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environment), upon 
a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative 
requirements are necessary for the effective delivery and 
administration of such voucher assistance: Provided further, 
That assistance made available under this paragraph shall 
continue to remain available for homeless veterans upon turn- 
over: Provided further, That of the total amount made available 
under this paragraph, up to $10,000,000 may be for additional 
fees established by and allocated pursuant to a method deter-
mined by the Secretary for administrative and other expenses 
(including those eligible activities defined by notice to facilitate 
leasing, such as security deposit assistance and costs related 
to the retention and support of participating owners) of public 
housing agencies in administering HUD–VASH vouchers; 
(7) $30,000,000 shall be available for the family unification 
program as authorized under section 8(x) of the Act: Provided, 
That the amounts made available under this paragraph are 
provided as follows: 
(A) $5,000,000 shall be available for new incremental 
voucher assistance: Provided, That the assistance made 
available under this subparagraph shall continue to remain 
available for family unification upon turnover; and 
(B) $25,000,000 shall be available for new incremental 
voucher assistance to assist eligible youth as defined by 
such section 8(x)(2)(B) of the Act: Provided, That assistance 
made available under this subparagraph shall continue 
to remain available for such eligible youth upon turnover: 
Provided further, That of the total amount made available 
under this subparagraph, up to $15,000,000 shall be avail-
able on a noncompetitive basis to public housing agencies 
that partner with public child welfare agencies to identify 
such eligible youth, that request such assistance to timely 
assist such eligible youth, and that meet any other criteria 
as specified by the Secretary: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall review utilization of the assistance made 
available under the preceding proviso, at an interval to 
be determined by the Secretary, and unutilized voucher 
assistance that is no longer needed shall be recaptured 
by the Secretary and reallocated pursuant to the preceding 
proviso: 
Provided further, That for any public housing agency admin-
istering voucher assistance appropriated in a prior Act under 
the family unification program, or made available and competi-
tively selected under this paragraph, that determines that it 
no longer has an identified need for such assistance upon 
turnover, such agency shall notify the Secretary, and the Sec-
retary shall recapture such assistance from the agency and 
reallocate it to any other public housing agency or agencies 
based on need for voucher assistance in connection with such 
specified program or eligible youth, as applicable; 
(8) $50,000,000 shall be available for new incremental 
voucher assistance under section 8(o) of the Act to be allocated 
pursuant to a method, as determined by the Secretary, which 
may include a formula that may include such factors as severe
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cost burden, overcrowding, substandard housing for very low- 
income renters, homelessness, and administrative capacity, 
where such allocation method shall include both rural and 
urban areas: Provided, That the Secretary may specify addi-
tional terms and conditions to ensure that public housing agen-
cies provide vouchers for use by survivors of domestic violence, 
or individuals and families who are homeless, as defined in 
section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 11302(a)), or at risk of homelessness, as defined 
in section 401(1) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(1)); and 
(9) the Secretary shall separately track all special purpose 
vouchers funded under this heading. 
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
Unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, 
remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development under this heading, the heading ‘‘Annual 
Contributions for Assisted Housing’’ and the heading ‘‘Project-Based 
Rental Assistance’’, for fiscal year 2023 and prior years may be 
used for renewal of or amendments to section 8 project-based con-
tracts and for performance-based contract administrators, notwith-
standing the purposes for which such funds were appropriated: 
Provided, That any obligated balances of contract authority from 
fiscal year 1974 and prior fiscal years that have been terminated 
shall be rescinded: Provided further, That amounts heretofore recap-
tured, or recaptured during the current fiscal year, from section 
8 project-based contracts from source years fiscal year 1975 through 
fiscal year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an amount of additional 
new budget authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded is hereby 
appropriated, to remain available until expended, for the purposes 
set forth under this heading, in addition to amounts otherwise 
available. 
PUBLIC HOUSING FUND 
For 2023 payments to public housing agencies for the operation 
and management of public housing, as authorized by section 9(e) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)) 
(the ‘‘Act’’), and to carry out capital and management activities 
for public housing agencies, as authorized under section 9(d) of 
the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d)), $8,514,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2026: Provided, That of the sums appropriated 
under this heading— 
(1) $5,109,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to 
allocate pursuant to the Operating Fund formula at part 990 
of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, for 2023 payments; 
(2) $25,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to allo-
cate pursuant to a need-based application process notwith-
standing section 203 of this title and not subject to such Oper-
ating Fund formula to public housing agencies that experience, 
or are at risk of, financial shortfalls, as determined by the 
Secretary: Provided, That after all such shortfall needs are 
met, the Secretary may distribute any remaining funds to all 
public housing agencies on a pro-rata basis pursuant to such 
Operating Fund formula;
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(3) $3,200,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to 
allocate pursuant to the Capital Fund formula at section 
905.400 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations: Provided, 
That for funds provided under this paragraph, the limitation 
in section 9(g)(1) of the Act shall be 25 percent: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may waive the limitation in the 
preceding proviso to allow public housing agencies to fund 
activities authorized under section 9(e)(1)(C) of the Act: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall notify public housing 
agencies requesting waivers under the preceding proviso if the 
request is approved or denied within 14 days of submitting 
the request: Provided further, That from the funds made avail-
able under this paragraph, the Secretary shall provide bonus 
awards in fiscal year 2023 to public housing agencies that 
are designated high performers: Provided further, That the 
Department shall notify public housing agencies of their for-
mula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act; 
(4) $50,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to make 
grants, notwithstanding section 203 of this title, to public 
housing agencies for emergency capital needs, including safety 
and security measures necessary to address crime and drug- 
related activity, as well as needs resulting from unforeseen 
or unpreventable emergencies and natural disasters excluding 
Presidentially declared emergencies and natural disasters 
under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occurring in fiscal year 2023, 
of which $20,000,000 shall be available for public housing agen-
cies under administrative and judicial receiverships or under 
the control of a Federal monitor: Provided, That of the amount 
made available under this paragraph, not less than $10,000,000 
shall be for safety and security measures: Provided further, 
That in addition to the amount in the preceding proviso for 
such safety and security measures, any amounts that remain 
available, after all applications received on or before September 
30, 2024, for emergency capital needs have been processed, 
shall be allocated to public housing agencies for such safety 
and security measures; 
(5) $65,000,000 shall be available for competitive grants 
to public housing agencies to evaluate and reduce residential 
health hazards in public housing, including lead-based paint 
(by carrying out the activities of risk assessments, abatement, 
and interim controls, as those terms are defined in section 
1004 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction 
Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 4851b)), carbon monoxide, mold, radon, 
and fire safety: Provided, That not less than $25,000,000 of 
the amounts provided under this paragraph shall be awarded 
for evaluating and reducing lead-based paint hazards: Provided 
further, That for purposes of environmental review, a grant 
under this paragraph shall be considered funds for projects 
or activities under title I of the Act for purposes of section 
26 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437x) and shall be subject to the 
regulations implementing such section: Provided further, That 
amounts made available under this paragraph shall be com-
bined with amounts made available under the sixth paragraph 
under this heading in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2021 (Public Law 116–260) and shall be used in accordance 
with the purposes and requirements under this paragraph;