Title: To provide grants to owners of grandfamily housing, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to award grants to owners of grand-family housing (i.e., housing dedicated to low-income grandparents or older relative caregivers who are caring full-time for a related child) for housing programming services, equipment, and upkeep and construction of buildings. Additionally, grant recipients must engage with grandparent and older caregivers in the community by performing periodic informational outreach and holding periodic events.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5406 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5406

   To provide grants to owners of grandfamily housing, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 12, 2019

 Mr. McGovern (for himself and Ms. Pressley) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide grants to owners of grandfamily housing, 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. GRANT PROGRAM FOR GRANDFAMILY HOUSING.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``grandfamily housing'' means a dwelling unit 
        dedicated to low-income--
                    (A) grandparents caring full-time for a grandchild; 
                or
                    (B) older relative caregivers caring full-time for 
                a relative child;
            (2) the term ``grandfamily resident service coordinator'' 
        means an individual who--
                    (A) is employed or contracted by an owner of 
                grandfamily housing;
                    (B) assists grandparents and older relative 
                caregivers with the process of applying to and moving 
                into the grandfamily housing; and
                    (C) regularly--
                            (i) assesses the needs of the residents, on 
                        a collective and family basis, of the 
                        grandfamily housing; and
                            (ii) plans and executes grandfamily housing 
                        programming services based on the assessment 
                        described in clause (i);
            (3) the term ``low-income'' means income that does not 
        exceed 80 percent of the area median gross income;
            (4) the term ``owner of grandfamily housing'' means a 
        nonprofit or for-profit entity that develops, owns, or operates 
        grandfamily housing; and
            (5) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Housing 
        and Urban Development.
    (b) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a program to 
provide grants to owners of grandfamily housing for grandfamily 
resident service coordinators to support housing programming services, 
equipment, and building structures of grandfamily housing.
    (c) Use of Funds.--A recipient of amounts under this section may 
use any amounts provided to--
            (1) employ a grandfamily resident service coordinator;
            (2) finance the planning and provision of services designed 
        for grandparent and older relative caregivers;
            (3) finance construction and upkeep of spaces within 
        permanent building structures of grandfamily housing and 
        communal areas used for programing and services designed for 
        grandparent and older relative caregivers; and
            (4) facilitate outreach required under subsection (d).
    (d) Outreach.--
            (1) In general.--Any recipient of amounts under this 
        section shall engage with grandparent and older relative 
        caregivers in the community surrounding the property that 
        contains the grandfamily housing owned by the grant recipient 
        by--
                    (A) performing periodic informational outreach; and
                    (B) holding periodic events, including 
                intergenerational events.
            (2) Special focus.--When undertaking outreach and events 
        pursuant to paragraph (1), a grant recipient shall place 
        special focus on grandparents and older relative caregivers 
        that reside in a unit--
                    (A) that is part of a housing project for which 
                assistance is provided by the public housing program 
                under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
                1437 et seq.);
                    (B) that is part of the program for supportive 
                housing for the elderly under section 202 of the 
                Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); or
                    (C) for which assistance is provided by the program 
                for rental assistance under section 8 of the United 
                States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f).
            (3) Coordination.--Outreach and events undertaken pursuant 
        to paragraph (1) shall, where possible, be in coordination with 
        a local kinship navigator program (as described in section 
        474(a)(7) of the Social Security Act) or a comparable program 
        or entity in the State.
    (e) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $50,000,000 for 
each of fiscal years 2020 and 2021.
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