‘‘(i) shall be used by the family only as 
a contribution toward the downpayment 
and reasonable and customary closing costs 
required in connection with the purchase of 
a home; 
‘‘(ii) shall be in the form of a single 
one-time grant; and 
‘‘(iii) may not exceed $10,000. 
‘‘(C) NO EFFECT ON OBTAINING OUTSIDE 
SOURCES FOR DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE.—This 
Act may not be construed to prohibit a public 
housing agency from providing downpayment 
assistance to families from sources other than a 
grant provided under this Act, or as determined 
by the public housing agency.’’. 
(b) USE OF VOUCHERS FOR MANUFACTURED HOUS-
ING.—Section 8(o)(12) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(12) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking the period 
at the end of the first sentence and all that follows 
through ‘‘of’’ in the second sentence and inserting 
‘‘and rents’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘the rent’’ and 
all that follows and inserting the following: ‘‘rent 
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shall mean the sum of the monthly payments 
made by a family assisted under this paragraph 
to amortize the cost of purchasing the manufac-
tured home, including any required insurance 
and property taxes, the monthly amount allowed 
for tenant-paid utilities, and the monthly rent 
charged for the real property on which the man-
ufactured home is located, including monthly 
management and maintenance charges.’’; 
(B) by striking clause (ii); and 
(C) in clause (iii)— 
(i) by inserting after the period at the 
end the following: ‘‘If the amount of the 
monthly assistance payment for a family 
exceeds the monthly rent charged for the 
real property on which the manufactured 
home is located, including monthly manage-
ment and maintenance charges, a public 
housing agency may pay the remainder to 
the family, lender or utility company, or 
may choose to make a single payment to the 
family for the entire monthly assistance 
amount.’’; and 
(ii) by redesignating such clause as 
clause (ii). 
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SEC. 9. PHA REPORTING OF RENT PAYMENTS TO CREDIT 
REPORTING AGENCIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a), as amended by 
the preceding provisions of this Act, is further amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(e) PHA REPORTING OF RENT PAYMENTS TO CREDIT 
REPORTING AGENCIES.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY.—To the extent that a family 
receiving tenant-based housing choice vouchers under 
section 8 by a public housing agency agrees in writ-
ing to reporting under this subsection, the public 
housing agency may submit to consumer reporting 
agencies described in section 603(p) of the Fair Credit 
Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a) information regard-
ing the past rent payment history of the family with 
respect to the dwelling unit for which such assistance 
is provided. 
‘‘(2) FORMAT.—The Secretary, after consultation 
with consumer reporting agencies referred in para-
graph (1), shall establish a system and format to be 
used by public housing agencies for reporting of infor-
mation under such paragraph that provides such in-
formation in a format and manner that is similar to 
other credit information submitted to such consumer 
reporting agencies and is usable by such agencies.’’. 
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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by sub-
section (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 10. PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS. 
Section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(21) PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) 
ESTABLISHMENT.—The 
Secretary 
shall, by regulation, establish standards and pro-
cedures for assessing the performance of public 
housing agencies in carrying out the programs 
for tenant-based rental assistance under this sub-
section and for homeownership assistance under 
subsection (y). 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—The standards and proce-
dures under this paragraph shall provide for as-
sessment of the performance of public housing 
agencies in the following areas: 
‘‘(i) Quality of dwelling units obtained 
using such assistance. 
‘‘(ii) Extent of utilization of assistance 
amounts provided to the agency and of au-
thorized vouchers. 
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‘‘(iii) Timeliness and accuracy of re-
porting by the agency to the Secretary. 
‘‘(iv) Effectiveness in carrying out 
policies to achieve deconcentration of pov-
erty. 
‘‘(v) Reasonableness of rent burdens, 
consistent with public housing agency re-
sponsibilities under section 8(o)(1)(E)(iii). 
‘‘(vi) Accurate rent calculations and 
subsidy payments. 
‘‘(vii) Effectiveness in carrying out 
family self-sufficiency activities. 
‘‘(viii) Timeliness of actions related to 
landlord participation. 
‘‘(ix) Such other areas as the Secretary 
considers appropriate. 
‘‘(C) PERIODIC
ASSESSMENT.—Using the 
standards and procedures established under this 
paragraph, the Secretary shall conduct an assess-
ment of the performance of each public housing 
agency carrying out a program referred to in 
subparagraph (A) and shall submit a report to 
the Congress regarding the results of each such 
assessment.’’. 
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SEC. 11. PHA PROJECT-BASED ASSISTANCE. 
Section 8(o)(13) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) is amended— 
(1) by striking subparagraph (B) and inserting 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(B) PERCENTAGE LIMITATION.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to clause 
(ii), not more than 25 percent of the fund-
ing available for tenant-based assistance 
under this section that is administered by 
the agency may be attached to structures 
pursuant to this paragraph. 
‘‘(ii) EXCEPTION.—An agency may at-
tach up to an additional 5 percent of the 
funding available for tenant-based assist-
ance under this section to structures pursu-
ant to this paragraph for dwelling units 
that house individuals and families that 
meet the definition of homeless under section 
103 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302).’’; 
(2) by striking subparagraph (D) and inserting 
the following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(D) INCOME MIXING REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided 
in clause (ii), not more than the greater of 
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25 dwelling units or 25 percent of the dwell-
ing units in any project may be assisted 
under a housing assistance payment con-
tract for project-based assistance pursuant 
to this paragraph. For purposes of this sub-
paragraph, the term ‘project’ means a single 
building, multiple contiguous buildings, or 
multiple buildings on contiguous parcels of 
land. 
‘‘(ii) EXCEPTIONS.— 
‘‘(I) 
CERTAIN
HOUSING.—The 
limitation under clause (i) shall not 
apply in the case of assistance under a 
contract for housing consisting of sin-
gle family properties, or for dwelling 
units that are specifically made avail-
able for households comprised of elderly 
families, disabled families, and fami-
lies receiving supportive services. For 
purposes of the preceding sentence, the 
term ‘single family properties’ means 
buildings with no more than four 
dwelling units. 
‘‘(II) CERTAIN AREAS.—With re-
spect to areas in which fewer than 75 
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percent of families issued vouchers be-
come participants in the program, the 
public housing agency has established 
the payment standard at 110 percent 
of the fair market rent for all census 
tracts in the area for the previous six 
months, and the public housing agency 
grants an automatic extension of 90 
days (or longer) to families with 
vouchers who are attempting to find 
housing, clause (i) shall be applied by 
substituting ‘50 percent’ for ‘25 per-
cent’.’’; 
(3) in the first sentence of subparagraph (F), by 
striking ‘‘10 years’’ and inserting ‘‘15 years’’; 
(4) in subparagraph (G)— 
(A) by inserting after the period at the end 
of the first sentence the following: ‘‘Such contract 
may, at the election of the public housing agency 
and the owner of the structure, specify that such 
contract shall be extended for renewal terms of 
up to 15 years each, if the agency makes the de-
termination required by this subparagraph and 
the owner is in compliance with the terms of the 
contract.’’; and 
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(B) by adding at the end the following: ‘‘A 
public housing agency may agree to enter into 
such a contract at the time it enters into the ini-
tial agreement for a housing assistance payment 
contract or at any time thereafter that is before 
the expiration of the housing assistance payment 
contract.’’; 
(5) in subparagraph (H), by inserting before the 
period at the end of the first sentence the following: 
‘‘, except that in the case of a contract unit that has 
been allocated low-income housing tax credits and for 
which the rent limitation pursuant to such section 42 
is less than the amount that would otherwise be per-
mitted under this subparagraph, the rent for such 
unit may, in the sole discretion of a public housing 
agency, be established at the higher section 8 rent, 
subject only to paragraph (10)(A)’’; 
(6) in subparagraph (I)(i), by inserting before 
the semicolon the following: ‘‘, except that the contract 
may provide that the maximum rent permitted for a 
dwelling unit shall not be less than the initial rent 
for the dwelling unit under the initial housing assist-
ance payments contract covering the unit’’; 
(7) in subparagraph (J)— 
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(A) by striking the fifth and sixth sentences 
and inserting the following: ‘‘A public housing 
agency may establish and utilize procedures for 
maintaining site-based waiting lists under which 
applicants may apply directly at, or otherwise 
designate to the public housing agency, the 
project or projects in which they seek to reside, 
except that all applicants on the waiting list of 
an agency for assistance under this subsection 
shall be permitted to place their names on such 
separate list. All such procedures shall comply 
with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the 
Fair Housing Act, and other applicable civil 
rights laws. The owner or manager of a structure 
assisted under this paragraph shall not admit 
any family to a dwelling unit assisted under a 
contract pursuant to this paragraph other than 
a family referred by the public housing agency 
from its waiting list, or a family on a site-based 
waiting list that complies with the requirements 
of this subparagraph. A public housing agency 
shall fully disclose to each applicant each option 
in the selection of a project in which to reside 
that is available to the applicant.’’; and 
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(B) by inserting after the third sentence the 
following new sentence: ‘‘Any family who resides 
in a dwelling unit proposed to be assisted under 
this paragraph, or in a unit to be replaced by 
a proposed unit to be assisted under this para-
graph shall be given an absolute preference for 
selection for placement in the proposed unit, if 
the family is otherwise eligible for assistance 
under this subsection.’’; and 
(8) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraphs: 
‘‘(L) USE IN COOPERATIVE HOUSING AND 
ELEVATOR BUILDINGS.—A public housing agency 
may enter into a housing assistance payments 
contract under this paragraph with respect to— 
‘‘(i) dwelling units in cooperative hous-
ing; 
‘‘(ii) notwithstanding subsection (c), 
dwelling units in a high-rise elevator 
project, including such a project that is oc-
cupied by families with children, without 
review and approval of the contract by the 
Secretary. 
‘‘(M) REVIEWS.— 
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‘‘(i) SUBSIDY
LAYERING.—A subsidy 
layering review in accordance with section 
102(d) of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (42 
U.S.C. 3545(d)) shall not be required for as-
sistance under this subparagraph in the 
case of a housing assistance payments con-
tract for an existing structure, or if a sub-
sidy layering review has been conducted by 
the applicable State or local agency. 
‘‘(ii) 
ENVIRONMENTAL
REVIEW.—A 
public housing agency shall not be required 
to undertake any environmental review be-
fore entering into a housing assistance pay-
ments contract under this paragraph for an 
existing structure, except to the extent such 
a review is otherwise required by law or 
regulation. 
‘‘(N) LEASES
AND
TENANCY.—Assistance 
provided under this paragraph shall be subject to 
the provisions of paragraph (7), except that sub-
paragraph (A) of such paragraph shall not 
apply.’’. 
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SEC. 12. RENT BURDENS. 
(a) REVIEWS.—Section 8(o)(1) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(1)) is amended 
by striking subparagraph (E) and inserting the following 
new subparagraph: 
‘‘(E) REVIEWS.— 
‘‘(i) RENT
BURDENS.—The Secretary 
shall monitor rent burdens and submit a re-
port to the Congress annually on the per-
centage of families assisted under this sub-
section, occupying dwelling units of any 
size, that pay more than 30 percent of their 
adjusted incomes for rent and such percent-
age that pay more than 40 percent of their 
adjusted incomes for rent. Using informa-
tion regularly reported by public housing 
agencies, the Secretary shall provide public 
housing agencies, on an annual basis, a re-
port with the information described in the 
first sentence of this clause, and may re-
quire a public housing agency to modify a 
payment standard that results in a signifi-
cant percentage of families assisted under 
this subsection, occupying dwelling units of 
any size, paying more than 30 percent of 
their adjusted incomes for rent. 
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‘‘(ii) CONCENTRATION OF POVERTY.— 
The Secretary shall submit a report to the 
Congress annually on the degree to which 
families assisted under this subsection in 
each metropolitan area are clustered in 
lower rent, higher poverty areas and how, 
and the extent to which, greater geographic 
distribution of such assisted families could 
be achieved, including by increasing pay-
ment standards for particular communities 
within such metropolitan areas. 
‘‘(iii) PUBLIC
HOUSING
AGENCY
RE-
SPONSIBILITIES.—Each 
public 
housing 
agency shall make publicly available the in-
formation on rent burdens provided by the 
Secretary pursuant to clause (i), and, for 
agencies located in metropolitan areas, the 
information on concentration provided by 
the Secretary pursuant to clause (ii). If the 
percentage of families paying more than 30 
percent or 40 percent of income exceeds the 
national average for either of such cat-
egories, as reported pursuant to clause (i), 
the public housing agency shall adjust the 
payment standard to eliminate excessive 
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