SEC. 302. CLARIFICATION OF VOUCHER ALLOCATION FOR-
MULA FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007. 
In carrying out section 21033 of the Continuing Ap-
propriations Resolution, 2007, to provide renewal funding 
for tenant-based rental housing assistance under section 8 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for each public 
housing agency, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall make, for any public housing agency impacted 
by Hurricane Katrina, Rita, or Wilma, such adjustments 
as are appropriate to provide adequate funding to adjust 
for reduced voucher leasing rates and increased housing 
costs arising from such hurricanes. 
SEC. 303. PRESERVATION OF PROJECT-BASED HOUSING AS-
SISTANCE 
PAYMENTS 
CONTRACTS 
FOR 
DWELLING UNITS DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
(a) TOLLING OF CONTRACT TERM.—Notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, a project-based housing assist-
ance payments contract for a covered assisted multifamily 
housing project shall not expire or be terminated because 
of the damage or destruction of dwelling units in the project 
by Hurricane Katrina or Rita. The expiration date of the 
contract shall be deemed to be the later of the date specified 
in the contract or a date that is not less than three months 
after the dwelling units in the project or in a replacement 
project are first made habitable. 
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(b) OWNER PROPOSALS FOR REUSE OR RE-SITING.— 
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
promptly review and shall approve all feasible proposals 
made by owners of covered assisted multifamily housing 
projects submitted to the Secretary, not later than October 
1, 2007, that provide for the rehabilitation of the project 
and the resumption of use of the assistance under the con-
tract for the project, or, alternatively, for the transfer, pur-
suant to subsection (c), of the contract or, in the case of 
a project with an interest reduction payments contract, of 
the remaining budget authority under the contact, to an-
other multifamily housing project. 
(c) TRANSFER OF CONTRACT.—In the case of any cov-
ered assisted multifamily housing project, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development shall— 
(1) in the case of a project with a project-based 
rental assistance payments contract described in sub-
paragraph (A), (B), or (C) of subsection (d)(2), trans-
fer the contract to another appropriate and habitable 
existing project or a project to be constructed (having 
the same or a different owner); and 
(2) in the case of a project with an interest re-
duction payments contract pursuant to section 236 of 
the National Housing Act, use the remaining budget 
authority under the contract for interest reduction 
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payments to reduce financing costs with respect to 
dwelling units in other habitable projects not cur-
rently so assisted, and such dwelling units shall be 
subject to the low-income affordability restrictions ap-
plicable to projects for which such payments are made 
under section 236 of the National Housing Act. 
A project to which a project-based rental assistance pay-
ments contract is transferred may have a different number 
of units or bedroom configuration than the damaged or de-
stroyed project if approximately the same number of indi-
viduals are expected to occupy the subsidized units in the 
replacement project as occupied the damaged or destroyed 
project. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
(1) COVERED ASSISTED MULTIFAMILY HOUSING 
PROJECT.—The term ‘‘assisted multifamily housing 
project’’ means a multifamily housing project that— 
(A) as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act, is subject to a project-based rental assistance 
payments contract (including pursuant to sub-
section (a) of this section); and 
(B) that was damaged or destroyed by Hur-
ricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita of 2005. 
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(2) PROJECT-BASED
RENTAL
ASSISTANCE
PAY-
MENTS
CONTRACT.—The term ‘‘project-based rental 
assistance payments contract’’ includes— 
(A) a contract entered into pursuant to sec-
tion 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f); 
(B) a contract for project rental assistance 
pursuant to section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act 
of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(c)(2)); 
(C) a contract for project rental assistance 
pursuant to section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston- 
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 
U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); and 
(D) an interest reduction payments contract 
pursuant to section 236 of the National Housing 
Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1). 
SEC. 304. TENANT REPLACEMENT VOUCHERS FOR ALL LOST 
UNITS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 
2008 such sums as may be necessary to provide tenant re-
placement vouchers under section 8 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) for the number of 
households that is equal to— 
(1) the number of assisted dwelling units (wheth-
er occupied or unoccupied) located in covered assisted 
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multifamily housing projects (as such term is defined 
in section 303(d) of this Act) that are not approved 
for reuse or re-siting by the Secretary; plus 
(2) the number of public housing dwelling units 
that, as of August 28, 2005, were located in areas af-
fected by Hurricane Katrina and were considered for 
purposes of allocating operating and capital assist-
ance under section 9 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (whether occupied or unoccupied), that 
will not be put back into use for occupancy; plus 
(3) the number of public housing dwelling units 
that, as of September 24, 2005, were located in areas 
affected by Hurricane Rita and were considered for 
purposes of allocating operating and capital assist-
ance under section 9 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (whether occupied or unoccupied), that 
will not be put back into use for occupancy; minus 
(4) the number of previously awarded enhanced 
vouchers for assisted dwelling units and tenant pro-
tection vouchers for public housing units covered 
under this section. 
Any amounts made available pursuant to this section shall, 
upon the request of a public housing agency for such vouch-
er assistance, be allocated to the public housing agency 
based the number of dwelling units described in paragraph 
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(1) or (2) that are located in the jurisdiction of the public 
housing agency. 
SEC. 305. VOUCHER ASSISTANCE FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUS-
ING. 
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as 
may be necessary to provide 4,500 vouchers for project-based 
rental assistance under section 8(o)(13) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) for use for 
supportive housing dwelling units for elderly families, per-
sons with disabilities, or homeless persons. The Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development shall make available 
to the State of Louisiana or its designee or designees, upon 
request, 3,000 of such vouchers. Subparagraphs (B) and (D) 
of section 8(o)(13) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) shall not apply with respect to 
vouchers made available under this section. 
SEC. 306. TRANSFER OF DVP VOUCHERS TO VOUCHER PRO-
GRAM. 
(a) TRANSFER TO SECTION 8 VOUCHER PROGRAM.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated, for tenant-based 
assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)), such sums as may be nec-
essary to provide vouchers for such assistance for each 
household that, as of the termination date of the Disaster 
Voucher Program referred to in section 301 of this Act, is 
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assisted under such program, for the period that such house-
hold is eligible for such voucher assistance. Such voucher 
assistance shall be administered by the public housing agen-
cy having jurisdiction of the area in which such assisted 
family resides as of such termination date. 
(b) TEMPORARY VOUCHERS.—If at any time a house-
hold for whom a voucher for rental housing assistance is 
provided pursuant to this section becomes ineligible for fur-
ther such rental assistance— 
(1) the public housing agency administering 
such voucher pursuant to this section may not pro-
vide rental assistance under such voucher for any 
other household; 
(2) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall recapture from such agency any remain-
ing amounts for assistance attributable to such vouch-
er and may not reobligate such amounts to any pub-
lic housing agency; and 
(3) such voucher shall not be taken into consider-
ation for purposes of determining any future alloca-
tion of amounts for such tenant-based rental assist-
ance for any public housing agency. 
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SEC. 307. IDENTIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION OF DVP-ELI-
GIBLE HOUSEHOLDS NOT ASSISTED. 
The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall make a good faith effort to identify all households who, 
as of the date of the enactment of this Act, are eligible for 
assistance under the Disaster Voucher Program referred to 
in section 301 but are not assisted under such program. 
Upon identification of each such household, the Secretary 
shall— 
(1) notify such household of the rights of the 
household to return a public housing or other assisted 
dwelling unit; and 
(2) to the extent that the family is eligible at 
such time of identification, offer the household assist-
ance under the Disaster Voucher program. 
TITLE IV—DAMAGES ARISING 
FROM FEMA ACTIONS 
SEC. 401. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS TO REIM-
BURSE LANDLORDS FOR DAMAGES DUE TO 
FEMA MANAGEMENT OF CITY LEASE PRO-
GRAM. 
There are authorized to be appropriated, from amounts 
made available before the date of the enactment of this Act 
under any provision of law to the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency for disaster relief under the Robert T. Staf-
ford Disaster Relief Emergency Assistance Act, such sums 
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