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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 
$5,000,000 shall be for rental assistance and associated 
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) $40,000,000 for incremental rental voucher assistance 
for use through a supported housing program administered 
in conjunction with the Department of Veterans 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, not-
withstanding 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 Secretary of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, public housing agency adminis-
trative performance, and other factors as specified by the Sec-
retary 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 requirements for (in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs), 
any provision of any statute or regulation that the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development administers in connection 
with the use of funds made available under this paragraph 
(except for requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimina-
tion, labor standards, and the environment), upon a finding
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by the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative require-
ments are necessary for the effective delivery and administra-
tion of such voucher assistance: Provided further, That assist-
ance made available under this paragraph shall continue to 
remain available for homeless veterans upon turn-over; 
(7) $25,000,000 shall be made 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 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) $20,000,000 shall be for new incremental voucher 
assistance to assist eligible youth as defined by such section 
8(x)(2)(B): 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 subpara-
graph, up to $10,000,000 shall be available on a non-
competitive 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 previous 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 previous 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) $43,439,000 shall be for incremental rental voucher 
assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 for use by individuals and families who are home-
less, as defined in section 103(a) of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302(a)), at risk of homeless-
ness, as defined in section 401(1) of the McKinney-Vento Home-
less Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360(1)), fleeing, or attempting 
to flee, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or 
stalking, or veterans and families that include a veteran family 
member that meet one of the preceding criteria: Provided, 
That assistance made available under this paragraph shall 
continue to remain available for such eligible individuals and 
families upon turnover: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall make such funding available, notwithstanding section 
203 of this title (competition provision) to public housing agen-
cies that partner with eligible continuums of care or other 
entities as designated by the Secretary, based on geographical
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need of such assistance, public housing agency administrative 
performance, and other factors 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, the Secretary shall give pref-
erence to applicants that demonstrate a strategy to coordinate 
assistance with services available in the community: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided in this paragraph 
may be used to require people experiencing homelessness to 
receive treatment or perform any other prerequisite activities 
as a condition for receiving shelter, housing or other services: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall issue guidance to 
implement the preceding proviso; 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 2021 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 the operation and management of public housing, as author-
ized 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 manage-
ment activities for public housing agencies, as authorized under 
section 9(d) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d)), $7,806,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2024: Provided, That the 
amounts made available under this heading are provided as follows: 
(1) $4,839,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to 
allocate pursuant to the Operating Fund formula at part 990 
of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, for 2021 payments; 
(2) $25,000,000 shall be available to 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,
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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; 
(3) $2,765,000,000 shall be available to 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 
previous proviso to allow public housing agencies to fund activi-
ties authorized under section 9(e)(1)(C) of the Act: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall notify public housing agencies 
requesting waivers under the previous proviso if the request 
is approved or denied within 14 days of submitting the request: 
Provided further, That from the funds made available under 
this paragraph, the Secretary shall provide bonus awards in 
fiscal year 2021 to public housing agencies that are designated 
high performers: Provided further, That the Department shall 
notify public housing agencies of their formula allocation within 
60 days of enactment of this Act; 
(4) $75,000,000 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 2021, 
of which $45,000,000 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 previous proviso for 
such safety and security measures, any amounts that remain 
available, after all applications received on or before September 
30, 2022, for emergency capital needs have been processed, 
shall be allocated to public housing agencies for such safety 
and security measures; 
(5) $25,000,000 shall be for competitive grants to public 
housing agencies to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint haz-
ards in public housing 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)): Provided, 
That for purposes of environmental review, a grant under this 
paragraph shall be considered funds for projects or activities 
under title I of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) for purposes of section 26 of such Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1437x) and shall be subject to the regulations imple-
menting such section; 
(6) $35,000,000 shall be for competitive grants to public 
housing agencies for activities authorized under the Healthy 
Homes Initiative, pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the