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in the project that are occupied by ten-
ants receiving such enhanced voucher 
assistance at the time the contract is 
effective. 
‘‘(III) COVERAGE OF ADDITIONAL 
DWELLING
UNITS.—At the request of 
the owner of a multifamily housing 
project for which a contract for assist-
ance is to be provided under this sub-
paragraph, the public housing agency 
may contract with the owner for 
project-based voucher assistance under 
this subparagraph to cover additional 
dwelling units, if the public housing 
agency determines that such additional 
assistance is necessary or desirable to 
further the purposes reflected in clause 
(v). 
‘‘(IV) 
APPROVAL
OF
HIGHER 
RENTS.—At the request of the owner of 
a multifamily housing project for a 
contract for assistance under this sub-
paragraph to establish rents at levels 
above those permitted by subparagraph 
(H), a public housing agency that has 
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made the determinations required by 
clause (v) may request, and the Sec-
retary may approve, higher unit rents 
if necessary to preserve housing oppor-
tunities that further the purposes of 
clause (v). 
‘‘(iv) PROJECTS IN MULTIPLE PHA JU-
RISDICTIONS.—If the Secretary has not en-
tered into a contract with a public housing 
agency to provide enhanced voucher assist-
ance under subsection (t) for the project at 
the time the owner of a multifamily housing 
project requests assistance under this sub-
paragraph, and the project is located within 
the jurisdiction for the program under sub-
section (o) of more than one public housing 
agency, in determining which agency will 
administer such assistance, the Secretary 
shall— 
‘‘(I) consider the ratio of the num-
ber of vouchers to be awarded under 
this subparagraph and of other project- 
based vouchers administered under this 
paragraph to the total number of 
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vouchers administered by an agency; 
and 
‘‘(II) among other factors, provide 
preference to an agency for which the 
total number of project-based vouchers 
administered under this paragraph, 
including vouchers to be awarded pur-
suant to this subparagraph, would not 
exceed 50 percent of the total number 
of all vouchers to be administered by 
the agency after such award. 
The Secretary shall establish guidelines for 
determining which agency will administer 
assistance if a unit is not located within the 
jurisdiction of any public housing agency 
that administers vouchers. 
‘‘(v) REQUIRED DETERMINATIONS.—As 
a condition of entering into a contract pur-
suant to this subparagraph, the public hous-
ing agency shall have determined, before en-
tering into such contract that— 
‘‘(I) the housing to be assisted 
under the contract is economically via-
ble; and 
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‘‘(II)(aa) there is a significant de-
mand for the housing; 
‘‘(bb) the housing will contribute 
to a community revitalization plan or 
to deconcentrating poverty and ex-
panding housing and economic oppor-
tunities; or 
‘‘(cc) the continued affordability 
of the housing otherwise is an impor-
tant asset to the community. 
‘‘(vi) INAPPLICABILITY
OF
GOALS.— 
Subparagraph (C) shall not apply to a 
housing assistance payment contract pursu-
ant to this subparagraph. 
‘‘(vii) 
DISREGARD
OF
ASSISTANCE 
UNDER
PERCENTAGE
LIMITATION.— 
Amounts provided pursuant to this sub-
paragraph shall not be considered for pur-
poses of calculating the limitation under 
subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(viii) INAPPLICABILITY
OF
INCOME- 
MIXING REQUIREMENT.—Subparagraph (D) 
shall not apply with respect to a housing 
assistance payments contract pursuant to 
this subparagraph. 
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‘‘(ix) ELIGIBILITY.—Subject only to 
clause (iii) and notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, any family residing in a 
multifamily housing project on the date of 
the eligibility event for the project who 
would otherwise be eligible for enhanced 
voucher assistance under subsection (t) shall 
be eligible for project-based voucher assist-
ance pursuant to this subparagraph.’’. 
SEC. 22. EFFECT OF FORECLOSURE ON SECTION 8 TENAN-
CIES. 
(a) USE OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE AMOUNTS.—Section 
8(o)(7) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f(o)(7)), as amended by section 703 of division A of 
Public Law 111–22 (123 Stat. 1661), is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (F), by inserting after ‘‘oc-
cupied unit,’’ the following: ‘‘and if a public housing 
agency is unable to make payments under the con-
tract to the immediate successor in interest after fore-
closure, due to action or inaction by the successor in 
interest, including the rejection of payments or the 
failure of the successor to maintain the unit in com-
pliance with paragraph (8), or an inability to iden-
tify the successor, the agency may use funds that 
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would have been used to pay the rental amount on be-
half of the family— 
‘‘(i) to pay for utilities that are the re-
sponsibility of the owner under the lease or 
applicable law, after taking reasonable steps 
to notify the owner that it intends to make 
payments to a utility provider in lieu of 
payments to the owner, except prior notifi-
cation shall not be required in any case in 
which the unit will be or has been rendered 
uninhabitable due to the termination or 
threat of termination of service, in which 
case the public housing agency shall notify 
the owner within a reasonable time after 
making such payment; or 
‘‘(ii) for the family’s reasonable mov-
ing costs, including security deposit costs.’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘except that this provision and 
the provisions related to foreclosure in subparagraph 
(C) shall not’’ in subparagraph (F) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘The provisions related to foreclosure in subpara-
graphs (C) and (F)’’; and 
(3) in the matter after and below subparagraph 
(F), as amended by paragraph (2) of this subsection, 
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by adding after the period at the end the following: 
‘‘For purposes of subparagraphs (C) and (F), the 
term ‘immediate successor in interest’ includes a pur-
chaser who purchases a property from an immediate 
successor in interest.’’. 
(b) SUNSET.—Section 704 of division A of the Helping 
Families Save Their Homes Act (42 U.S.C. 1437f note; 
Public Law 111–22; 123 Stat. 1662) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘This title, and any amendments 
made by this title are’’ and inserting ‘‘Section 702 
is’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘this title’’ and inserting ‘‘such 
section’’. 
SEC. 23. STUDY TO IDENTIFY OBSTACLES TO USING VOUCH-
ERS IN FEDERALLY SUBSIDIZED HOUSING 
PROJECTS. 
(a) STUDY.—The Comptroller General of the United 
States shall conduct a study of (1) the housing voucher pro-
gram authorized under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)), and (2) other 
federally subsidized housing programs, to determine wheth-
er any statutory, regulatory, or administrative provisions 
of the housing voucher program or of other federally sub-
sidized housing programs, or policies and practices of hous-
ing owners or public housing agencies or other agencies, 
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may have the effect of making occupancy by voucher holders 
in federally subsidized housing projects more difficult to ob-
tain than occupancy by non-voucher holders. In conducting 
the study required under this subsection the Comptroller 
General shall determine if any gaps exist in the statute, 
regulations, or administration of the housing voucher pro-
gram or of other federally subsidized housing programs and 
policies and practices of housing owners or public housing 
agencies or other agencies that, if addressed, could eliminate 
or reduce obstacles to voucher holders in seeking occupancy 
in federally subsidized housing projects. Such study shall 
include data on the use of housing vouchers in federally sub-
sidized housing projects. 
(b) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 
‘‘federally subsidized housing projects’’ includes projects as-
sisted pursuant to the HOME investment partnerships pro-
gram under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Af-
fordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.) and those 
projects receiving the benefit of low-income housing credits 
under section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 
U.S.C. 42). 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 6 months after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall re-
port to Congress the findings from the study required under 
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subsection (a) and any recommendations for statutory, reg-
ulatory, or administrative changes. 
SEC. 24. INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS. 
(a) TECHNICAL CORRECTION.—Section 202(e) of the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11312), as amended by section 1004 of division B of Public 
Law 111–22, is amended by striking ‘‘Chairman’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Chairperson’’. 
(b) DUTIES.—Section 203 of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11313), as amended by 
section 1004 of Public Law 111–22, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) 
by 
redesignating 
paragraphs 
(6) 
through (13) as paragraphs (9) through (16), re-
spectively; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘which 
shall set forth actions to accomplish the goal of 
ending homelessness,’’ after ‘‘National Strategic 
Plan to End Homelessness,’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3), by inserting before 
the semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘and en-
sure that related programs and activities to as-
sist homeless individuals of Federal agencies are 
coordinated with each other’’; and 
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(D) by inserting after paragraph (5) the fol-
lowing new paragraphs: 
‘‘(6) make recommendations, in the reports sub-
mitted pursuant to subsection (c) on— 
‘‘(A) long-term goals for the Congress to re-
duce homelessness; and 
‘‘(B) legislative strategies for the Congress 
to achieve such goals; 
‘‘(7) evaluate the Federal role in interacting and 
coordinating with State and local entities that ad-
dress homelessness; 
‘‘(8) conduct research and develop methods— 
‘‘(A) through consultation with State and 
local agencies, to improve coordination between 
the Council and Federal agencies in existence 
upon the date of enactment of the Interagency 
Council on Homelessness Reform Act of 2009 
that specifically deal with homelessness; and 
‘‘(B) to minimize the period during which 
individuals remain homeless;’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(3) BIENNIAL REPORT.—The Council shall pre-
pare and transmit to the President and the Congress 
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a biennial report detailing the efforts of the Council 
to address homelessness. 
‘‘(4) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The Council shall 
make each report submitted to the Congress pursuant 
to paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection, and 
the national plan and updates of such plan submitted 
pursuant to paragraph (1) of subsection (a), publicly 
available, including through posting on a World Wide 
Web site maintained by the Council.’’. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
208 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11318), as amended by section 1004 of division B 
of Public Law 111–22, is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal years 
2011’’ and inserting ‘‘each of fiscal years 2011 through 
2015’’. 
SEC. 25. STUDY OF EFFECTS OF SECTION 8 PROGRAM ON 
HUD BUDGET AND PROGRAMS. 
The Comptroller General of the United States shall 
conduct a study to identify and analyze the effects that the 
rental assistance program under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) has on the 
other programs administered by the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development and on the overall budget for the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development. Not later 
than the expiration of the 6-month period beginning on the 
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