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the Secretary, including that such use would not put such agency 
at risk of financial shortfall. 
ASSISTED HOUSING INSPECTIONS AND RISK ASSESSMENTS 
For the Department’s inspection and assessment programs, 
including 
travel, 
training, 
and 
program 
support 
contracts, 
$50,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2028: Provided, 
That unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, 
remaining from funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Public 
Housing Fund’’ in prior Acts to support ongoing public housing 
financial and physical assessment activities shall be available for 
the purposes authorized under this heading in addition to the 
purposes for which such funds originally were appropriated. 
CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE 
For competitive grants under the choice neighborhoods initia-
tive (subject to section 24 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) (the ‘‘Act’’) unless otherwise specified under 
this heading), for transformation, rehabilitation, and replacement 
housing needs of both public and HUD-assisted housing and to 
transform neighborhoods of poverty into functioning, sustainable, 
mixed-income neighborhoods with appropriate services, schools, 
public assets, transportation, and access to jobs, $25,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2030: Provided, That grant 
funds may be used for resident and community services, community 
development, and affordable housing needs in the community, and 
for conversion of vacant or foreclosed properties to affordable 
housing: Provided further, That the use of amounts made available 
under this heading shall not be deemed to be for public housing, 
notwithstanding section 3(b)(1) of the Act: Provided further, That 
grantees shall commit to an additional period of affordability deter-
mined by the Secretary of not fewer than 20 years: Provided further, 
That grantees shall provide a match in State, local, other Federal, 
or private funds: Provided further, That grantees may include local 
governments, Tribal entities, public housing agencies, and nonprofit 
organizations: Provided further, That for-profit developers may 
apply jointly with a public entity: Provided further, That for pur-
poses of environmental review, a grantee shall be treated as a 
public housing agency under section 26 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437x), 
and grants made with amounts available under this heading shall 
be subject to the regulations issued by the Secretary to implement 
such section: Provided further, That of the amounts made available 
under this heading, not less than $12,500,000 shall be awarded 
to public housing agencies: Provided further, That such grantees 
shall create partnerships with other local organizations, including 
assisted housing owners, service agencies, and resident organiza-
tions: Provided further, That the Secretary shall consult with the 
Secretaries of Education, Labor, Transportation, Health and Human 
Services, Agriculture, and Commerce, the Attorney General, and 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to coordi-
nate and leverage other appropriate Federal resources: Provided 
further, That not more than $10,000,000 of the amounts made 
available under this heading may be provided as grants to under-
take comprehensive local planning with input from residents and 
the community: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
available under this heading may be obligated for main street
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housing grants under section 24(n) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437v(n)): 
Provided further, That unobligated balances, including recaptures, 
remaining from amounts made available under the heading 
‘‘Revitalization of Severely Distressed Public Housing (HOPE VI)’’ 
in fiscal year 2011 and prior fiscal years may be used for purposes 
under this heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which such 
amounts were appropriated: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall make grant awards not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this Act in such amounts that the Secretary deter-
mines: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 24(o) of the 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437v(o)), the Secretary may, until September 30, 
2026, obligate any available unobligated balances made available 
under this heading in this or any prior Act. 
SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAMS 
For activities and assistance related to self-sufficiency pro-
grams, to remain available until September 30, 2029, $206,400,000: 
Provided, That of the sums appropriated under this heading— 
(1) $156,400,000 shall be available for the family self- 
sufficiency program to support family self-sufficiency coordina-
tors under section 23 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437u), to promote the development of local 
strategies to coordinate the use of assistance under sections 
8 and 9 of such Act with public and private resources, and 
enable eligible families to achieve economic independence and 
self-sufficiency: Provided, That the Secretary may use recap-
tured amounts made available under this paragraph in prior 
Acts to provide bonus awards to programs that are assigned 
a ranking of performance category 1 based on their publicly 
available family self-sufficiency achievement metrics (FAM) 
scores; 
(2) $40,000,000 shall be available for the resident oppor-
tunity and self-sufficiency program to provide for supportive 
services, service coordinators, and congregate services as 
authorized by section 34 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437z–6) and the Native American Housing 
Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 
et seq.): Provided, That amounts made available under this 
paragraph may be used to renew resident opportunity and 
self-sufficiency program grants to allow the public housing 
agency, or a new owner, to continue to serve (or restart service 
to) residents of a project with assistance converted from public 
housing to project-based rental assistance under section 8 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) or 
assistance under section 8(o)(13) of such Act under the heading 
‘‘Rental Assistance Demonstration’’ in the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012 
(Public Law 112–55), as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437f note); and 
(3) $10,000,000 shall be available for a jobs-plus initiative, 
modeled after the jobs-plus demonstration: Provided, That 
funding provided under this paragraph shall be available for 
competitive grants to partnerships between public housing 
agencies, local workforce investment boards established under 
section 107 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
of 2014 (29 U.S.C. 3122), and other agencies and organizations 
that provide support to help public housing residents obtain
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employment and increase earnings: Provided further, That 
applicants must demonstrate the ability to provide services 
to residents, partner with workforce investment boards, and 
leverage service dollars: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may allow public housing agencies to request exemptions from 
rent and income limitation requirements under sections 3 and 
6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a, 
1437d), as necessary to implement the jobs-plus program, on 
such terms and conditions as the Secretary may approve upon 
a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative 
requirements are necessary for the effective implementation 
of the jobs-plus initiative as a voluntary program for residents: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall publish by notice 
in the Federal Register any waivers or alternative requirements 
pursuant to the preceding proviso no later than 10 days before 
the effective date of such notice. 
NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS 
For activities and assistance authorized under title I of the 
Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act 
of 1996 (in this heading ‘‘NAHASDA’’) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), 
title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) with respect to Indian tribes, and for 
related activities and assistance, $1,354,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2030: Provided, That of the sums appro-
priated under this heading— 
(1) $1,111,000,000 shall be available for the Native Amer-
ican housing block grants program, as authorized under title 
I of NAHASDA: Provided, That, notwithstanding NAHASDA, 
to determine the amount of the allocation under title I of 
such Act for each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the 
formula under section 302 of such Act with the need component 
based on single-race census data and with the need component 
based on multi-race census data, and the amount of the alloca-
tion for each Indian tribe shall be the greater of the two 
resulting allocation amounts: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall notify grantees of their formula allocation not 
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act; 
(2) $125,000,000 shall be available for competitive grants 
under the Native American housing block grants program, as 
authorized under title I of NAHASDA: Provided, That the Sec-
retary shall obligate such amount for competitive grants to 
eligible recipients authorized under NAHASDA that apply for 
funds: Provided further, That in awarding amounts made avail-
able in this paragraph, the Secretary shall consider need and 
administrative capacity, and shall give priority to projects that 
will spur construction and rehabilitation of housing: Provided 
further, That any amounts transferred for the necessary costs 
of administering and overseeing the obligation and expenditure 
of such additional amounts in prior Acts may also be used 
for the necessary costs of administering and overseeing such 
additional amount; 
(3) $10,000,000 shall be available for noncompetitive grants 
to recipients that received a Tribal HUD-Veterans Affairs Sup-
portive Housing grant in prior years, to be available under
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the same terms and conditions as funds specified under para-
graph (5) under the heading ‘‘Public and Indian Housing–Ten-
ant-Based Rental Assistance’’ in Public Law 118–42: Provided, 
That the Secretary may reallocate, as determined by the Sec-
retary, amounts returned or recaptured from awards under 
the Tribal HUD–VASH program under prior Acts to existing 
recipients under the Tribal HUD–VASH program; 
(4) $1,000,000 shall be available for the cost of guaranteed 
notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of 
NAHASDA: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 661a): Provided further, That amounts made available 
in this and prior Acts for the cost of such guaranteed notes 
and other obligations that are unobligated, including recaptures 
and carryover, may be available to subsidize the total principal 
amount of any notes and other obligations, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $60,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2027; 
(5) $100,000,000 shall be available for grants to Indian 
tribes for carrying out the Indian community development block 
grant program under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974, notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) 
of such Act, of which, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law (including section 203 of this Act), not more than 
$10,000,000 may be used for emergencies that constitute 
imminent threats to health and safety: Provided, That not 
to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with amounts made 
available in this paragraph shall be expended for planning 
and management development and administration; and 
(6) $7,000,000, in addition to amounts otherwise available 
for such purpose, shall be available for providing training and 
technical assistance to Indian tribes, Indian housing authori-
ties, and tribally designated housing entities, to support the 
inspection of Indian housing units, for contract expertise, and 
for training and technical assistance related to amounts made 
available under this heading and other headings in this Act 
for the needs of Native American families and Indian country: 
Provided, That of the amounts made available in this para-
graph, not less than $2,000,000 shall be for a national organiza-
tion as authorized under section 703 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 
4212): Provided further, That amounts made available in this 
paragraph may be used, contracted, or competed as determined 
by the Secretary: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
chapter 63 of title 31, United States Code (commonly known 
as the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreements Act of 1977), 
the amounts made available in this paragraph may be used 
by the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with 
public and private organizations, agencies, institutions, and 
other technical assistance providers to support the administra-
tion of negotiated rulemaking under section 106 of NAHASDA 
(25 U.S.C. 4116), the administration of the allocation formula 
under section 302 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4152), and the 
administration of performance tracking and reporting under 
section 407 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4167).