SEC. 4. ASSISTANCE TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING 
AND SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN 
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. 
(a) PURPOSES OF ASSISTANCE.—The purposes of as-
sistance under this section are to— 
(1) support economically and environmentally 
sustainable and administratively feasible urban so-
cioeconomic growth, development, and poverty reduc-
tion efforts and to produce improved health and 
other basic quality of life indicators for residents of 
slums, other densely populated, impoverished urban 
areas, and urban areas experiencing rapid popu-
lation growth in developing countries, including by 
increasing— 
(A) access to basic shelter and affordable 
housing, particularly by residents of slums and 
similar densely populated, impoverished urban 
areas; 
(B) affordable and equitable access to safe 
water, sanitation, and solid waste removal serv-
ices, and shared communal infrastructure, such 
as sidewalks, roads, public lighting; 
(C) access to and security of land and 
other real property use, lease, and ownership 
rights and legal recognition and protections 
thereof by all income groups, including by sup-
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porting efforts to enhance the effectiveness of 
transaction and dispute resolution systems, eq-
uitable and sustainable national land policies, 
and enhanced land administration services; and 
(D) support for efforts to enhance the ca-
pacity of developing country governments, in-
cluding regional and municipal governments, to 
plan and manage urban growth in an operation-
ally and financially effective and transparent, 
participatory, and accountable manner, to pur-
sue policy reforms that foster such objectives, 
and to provide urban services and infrastruc-
ture, such as basic water and sanitation, trans-
port, solid waste removal, and electrical power 
service delivery, including in impoverished 
urban zones; and 
(2) achieve the objectives described in para-
graph (1) by— 
(A) promoting the growth of functional, 
commercially oriented housing markets in tar-
get countries and expanding access to individual 
and institutional investment capital and financ-
ing for housing and municipal infrastructure, 
including by public-private partnerships, munic-
ipal 
bonds, 
micro-credit 
financing, 
and 
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strengthening national and regional public or 
private institutions involved in the regulation or 
provision of finance of such purposes; 
(B) supporting institutional, procedural, 
and legal reforms that seek to enhance the 
rights and access to shelter, urban infrastruc-
ture and services, and property ownership and 
lease rights of groups that are socioeconomically 
vulnerable or marginalized, or subject to dis-
crimination, including women, children, the 
poor, and people living in urban slums and in-
formal settlements; 
(C) prioritizing support for cross-sectoral, 
multi-purpose projects that simultaneously ad-
vance one or more of the objectives described in 
subparagraphs (A) and (B); and 
(D) promoting partnerships between the 
public and private sectors and community-based 
organizations to plan and implement projects 
described in subparagraph (C). 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE.—To carry out 
the purposes of subsection (a), the President is author-
ized— 
(1) to furnish technical assistance and financial 
support to developing countries, to include, as appro-
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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 2012 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 2012 and each subsequent fiscal year such sums as 
may be necessary to carry out this Act. 
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