Title: Affordable Housing for Homeless Veterans Act of 2021
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Affordable Housing for Homeless Veterans Act of 2021
This bill reauthorizes and modifies a program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that provides housing assistance to homeless veterans. Specifically, the bill authorizes the VA to enter into agreements with specified entities (e.g., nonprofit organizations or tribal entities) through September 30, 2025, to assist homeless veterans and their families in acquiring shelter or permanent housing.
Under the bill, the VA may enter into agreements where an entity that is buying, leasing, or receiving property agrees to sell or rent the property directly to homeless veterans or veterans at risk of homelessness.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2419 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2419

To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and extend Department 
  of Veterans Affairs assistance for homeless veterans, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 8, 2021

 Mr. Mann (for himself, Mr. Pappas, Ms. Kuster, Ms. Herrell, Ms. Ross, 
 Ms. Spanberger, Ms. Strickland, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, 
  Mr. Soto, Ms. Bush, and Mr. Kilmer) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand and extend Department 
  of Veterans Affairs assistance for homeless veterans, 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 ``Affordable Housing for Homeless 
Veterans Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION AND EXTENSION OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
              ASSISTANCE FOR HOMELESS VETERANS.

    (a) Expansion.--Subsection (a) of section 2041 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                inserting ``or permanent housing'' after ``shelter'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``named in, or 
                approved by the Secretary under, section 5902 of this 
                title'' and inserting ``that is the recipient of a 
                grant under section 2011, 2013, 2044, or 2061 of this 
                title''; and
                    (C) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ``, tribal 
                entity,'' after ``State''; and
            (2) in paragraph (3)(B)--
                    (A) in clause (i), by inserting ``or to sell or 
                rent the property directly to homeless veterans or 
                veterans at-risk of homelessness'' after ``families''; 
                and
                    (B) in each of clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), by 
                striking the comma and inserting a semicolon.
    (b) Extension.--Subsection (c) of such section is amended by 
striking ``September 30, 2017'' and inserting ``September 30, 2025''.
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