Title: Dignity in Housing Act of 2022
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Dignity in Housing Act of 2022
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to inspect each public housing project with more than 100 units at least every two years to determine whether the project and units are maintained in compliance with federal standards. Inspections must be performed by HUD employees or designees, and may not be performed by officers, employees, or agents of a public housing agency. HUD must make the results of these inspections publicly available online. These inspections are in addition to the annual inspection already required of every public housing project under current law.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6640 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6640

 To require the Department of Housing and Urban Development to inspect 
 certain public housing developments to ensure compliance with housing 
         quality and safety standards, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 8, 2022

 Ms. Malliotakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                  the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Department of Housing and Urban Development to inspect 
 certain public housing developments to ensure compliance with housing 
         quality and safety standards, 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 ``Dignity in Housing Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. INSPECTIONS.

    Subsection (f) of section 6 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437d(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph:
            ``(4) Large public housing developments.--
                    ``(A) Biennial inspections.--The Secretary shall 
                make inspections of each public housing project 
                consisting of 100 dwelling units or more not less 
                frequently than biennially to determine whether the 
                project is, and units in the project are, maintained in 
                accordance with the requirements under paragraph (1).
                    ``(B) Inspectors.--Inspections of a public housing 
                project required under this paragraph shall be--
                            ``(i) in addition to inspections required 
                        by paragraph (3); and
                            ``(ii) conducted by employees of the 
                        Department of Housing and Urban Development or 
                        such other inspectors as may be obtained by the 
                        Secretary, but not including any officers or 
                        employees or a public housing agency or any 
                        agent of a public housing agency.
                    ``(C) Public availability.--The Secretary shall 
                make the results of inspections pursuant to this 
                paragraph publicly available online.''.
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