Manufactured Housing Community Improvement Grant Program Act
Bill: S.3188 | Sponsor: Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine (D-NV)
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Manufactured Housing Community Improvement Grant Program Act
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to award grants to manufactured home communities for projects that protect the health and safety of community residents and the long-term sustainability of the community.
To be eligible for grants under the bill, a manufactured home community must be affordable to low-income and moderate-income persons.

To establish a manufactured housing community improvement grant 
                    program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Manufactured Housing Community 
Improvement Grant Program Act''.

SEC. 2. MANUFACTURED HOUSING COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Eligible manufactured home community.--The term 
        ``eligible manufactured home community'' means a community 
        that--
                    (A) is affordable to low- and moderate-income 
                persons (as such term is defined in section 102(a) of 
                the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 
                U.S.C. 5302(a))); and
                    (B)(i) is owned by the residents of the 
                manufactured housing community through a resident-
                controlled entity, as defined by the Secretary, in 
                which at least two-thirds of residents are member-
                owners of the land-owning entity; or
                    (ii) will be maintained as such a community, and 
                remain affordable for low- and moderate-income 
                families, to the maximum extent practicable and for the 
                longest period feasible.
            (2) Eligible recipient.--The term ``eligible recipient'' 
        means a partnership of--
                    (A) a grantee under paragraph (2) or (4) of section 
                106(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
                1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306(a)); and
                    (B) an eligible manufactured home community, a 
                nonprofit entity, or a consortia of nonprofit entities 
                working with an eligible manufactured home community.
            (3) Manufactured home community.--The term ``manufactured 
        home community'' means any community, court, or park equipped 
        to accommodate manufactured homes for which pad sites, with or 
        without existing manufactured homes or other allowed homes, or 
        other suitable sites, are used primarily for residential 
        purposes, with any additional requirements as determined by the 
        Secretary, including any manufactured housing community as such 
        term is used for purposes of the program of the Federal 
        National Mortgage Association for multifamily loans for 
        manufactured housing communities and the program of the Federal 
        Home Loan Mortgage Corporation for loans for manufactured 
        housing communities.
            (4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Housing and Urban Development.
    (b) Establishment.--The Secretary shall carry out a competitive 
grant program to award funds to eligible recipients to carry out 
eligible projects for improvements in eligible manufactured home 
communities.
    (c) Eligible Projects.--Amounts from grants under this section 
shall be used to assist in carrying out a project for construction, 
reconstruction, repair, or clearance of housing, facilities and 
improvements in or serving a manufactured housing community that is 
necessary to protect the health and safety of the residents of the 
manufactured housing community and the long-term sustainability of the 
community.
    (d) Waivers.--The Secretary may waive or specify alternative 
requirements for any provision of law or regulation that the Secretary 
administers in connection with use of amounts made available under this 
section other than requirements related to fair housing, 
nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environment, upon a finding 
that the waiver or alternative requirement is not inconsistent with the 
overall purposes of such Act and that the waiver or alternative 
requirement is necessary to facilitate the use of amounts made 
available under this section.
    (e) Implementation.--The Secretary shall have authority to issue 
such regulations, notices, or other guidance, forms, instructions, and 
publications to carry out the programs, projects, or activities 
authorized under this section to ensure that such programs, projects, 
or activities are completed in a timely and effective manner.
    (f) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out this section.
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