Housing PLUS Act of 2021
Bill: H.R.6018 | Sponsor: Rep. Barr, Andy (R-KY)
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Housing Promotes Livelihood and Ultimate Success Act of 2021 or the Housing PLUS Act of 2021
This bill modifies the requirements under which the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must award grants under the Continuum of Care Program, which provides funding for nonprofit providers and state and local governments to quickly rehouse homeless individuals and families.
Specifically, the bill bars HUD from prohibiting, limiting, or restricting Continuum of Care grants to recipients that (1) require program participants to receive supportive services, (2) require program participants to be sober or drug-free, or (3) are faith-based organizations. The bill also requires that 30% of Continuum of Care grant funds be set aside for eligible grant recipients that provide or offer access to wraparound services.

To allow amounts made available for the Continuum of Care program of 
            the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

    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 ``Housing Promotes Livelihood and 
Ultimate Success Act of 2021'' or the ``Housing PLUS Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. AVAILABILITY OF CONTINUUM OF CARE FUNDS FOR GRANTEES REQUIRING 
              WRAPAROUND SERVICES OR APPLYING PRECONDITIONS.

    Subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

``SEC. 436. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR GRANTEES REQUIRING WRAPAROUND 
              SERVICES OR APPLYING PRECONDITIONS.

    ``(a) Availability.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary may not, in making amounts available under this subtitle, 
prohibit, limit, or restrict the award or amount of grants made with 
such amounts to or for eligible entities, project sponsors, or 
recipients--
            ``(1) that require the provision of supportive services, 
        such as counseling, job training, or addiction treatment, for 
        individuals served by a program, project, or activity assisted 
        with such amounts;
            ``(2) that require, as a condition for occupancy in a 
        project, or assistance from a program, project, or activity, 
        assisted with such amounts that individuals meet certain 
        prerequisites, such as sobriety or lack of drug use; or
            ``(3) faith-based organizations.
    ``(b) Set Aside.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 
making available amounts under this subtitle for each fiscal year, the 
Secretary shall ensure that not less than 30 percent of such amounts 
shall be used by eligible entities, project sponsors, and recipients 
that provide or offer access to wraparound services.
    ``(c) Accountability.--Not later than 180 days after the completion 
of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit, to the House Committee 
on Financial Services of the House of Representatives and Committee on 
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate, for such fiscal 
year--
            ``(1) a written certification that the amounts made 
        available for carrying out this subtitle were made available in 
        compliance with subsections (a) and (b) of this section; and
            ``(2) a report specifying how the Notices of Funding 
        Opportunity for such fiscal year for amounts made available for 
        carrying out this subtitle evidence such compliance.''.
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