Title: Affordable Housing Resident Services Act of 2022
Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Summary:
Affordable Housing Resident Services Act of 2022
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to award competitive grants to owners of federally-assisted affordable housing for specified resident assistance activities, including obtaining health care, enhancing economic self-sufficiency, and assisting older adults and residents with disabilities.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6602 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6602

    To authorize funding of enriched resident services in federally 
          assisted affordable housing, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 2022

   Mr. Aguilar (for himself, Mr. Takano, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. 
Lowenthal, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Levin of California, 
    Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mrs. Torres of California, Ms. Bass, Mrs. 
 Napolitano, Ms. Brownley, and Mr. Cardenas) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in 
addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and Ways and Means, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize funding of enriched resident services in federally 
          assisted affordable 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Affordable Housing Resident Services 
Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESIDENT SERVICES GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall annually award grants on a competitive basis to owners of 
qualified properties for use for eligible activities.
    (b) Terms of Grant.--Grants awarded under this section shall be 
funded for a term of 5 years.
    (c) Eligible Activities.--Grants shall be used for activities 
that--
            (1) assist residents in obtaining health services and other 
        community services;
            (2) provide after-school programs for children and teenage 
        students, including mentoring, tutoring, college and career 
        readiness, and life skills training;
            (3) enhance educational opportunities for youth and adult 
        residents;
            (4) provide access to programs to assist residents with 
        mental health or alcohol or addiction problems;
            (5) enhance residents' economic self-sufficiency and 
        empowerment, including providing employment resources;
            (6) prepare residents for home ownership;
            (7) provide residents assistance with financial literacy;
            (8) assist older adults to enable them to age in place; or
            (9) assist residents with disabilities.
    (d) Qualified Properties.--The term ``qualified properties'' means 
a property assisted under--
            (1) the low-income housing tax credit under section 42 of 
        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
            (2) the project-based rental assistance programs under 
        section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, including 
        units assisted by project-based vouchers under section 8(o)(13) 
        of such Act;
            (3) the program under section 236 of the National Housing 
        Act;
            (4) the below-market interest rate mortgage program under 
        section 22(d)(3) of the National Housing Act;
            (5) the rural rental housing program under section 515 of 
        the Housing Act of 1949;
            (6) a program under title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
        Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11361 et seq.), but only permanent 
        supportive housing projects subsidized under such programs;
            (7) section 1131 of Public Law 110-289;
            (8) the supportive housing for the elderly program under 
        section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959;
            (9) the supportive housing program for persons with 
        disabilities under section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
        National Affordable Housing Act; or
            (10) affordable housing units owned by public housing 
        agencies that are not assisted under the Housing Act of 1937.
    (e) Selection Criteria.--Grants shall be awarded on a competitive 
basis, based on the following selection criteria:
            (1) The extent to which a grant may enable an applicant to 
        provide new types of enriched services, to provide services to 
        more residents, or provide more effective services to 
        residents.
            (2) The extent to which an applicant can demonstrate the 
        likelihood of achieving objective outcomes for its residents 
        that are described in the application.
            (3) The extent of experience with respect to eligible 
        activities and a demonstrable track record in providing 
        resident services.
            (4) The extent of relationships and partnerships an 
        applicant has with localities, non-profits, and health care 
        providers that provide services or facilitate the provision of 
        services that improve outcomes for residents.
            (5) Any experience the applicant has with respect to 
        development, ownership, and management of qualified properties 
        for low-income families, seniors, and disabled persons.
            (6) The selection of a diverse range of grantees, including 
        minority business enterprises and owners of properties located 
        in rural areas and other underserved areas.
            (7) Economies of scale associated with providing services 
        to residents in a number of different qualified properties that 
        enhance the efficiency of providing resident services.
            (8) The extent to which an applicant can supplement the 
        grant with matching funds from other sources to fund additional 
        services.
    (f) Coordination.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may coordinate with the Secretary of Health and Human Services as the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development determines appropriate.
    (g) Transfer of Funds.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to the appropriation of additional 
        amounts for use in association with the grant program 
        established under this section the Secretary of Health and 
        Human Services shall, for each of fiscal years 2022, 2023, 
        2024, 2025, and 2026, transfer, to the grant program 
        established under this section, such amounts as the Secretary 
        of Health and Human Services determines appropriate from the 
        Social Services Block Grant program and the Community Services 
        Block Grant program.
            (2) Maximum.--The sum of the amounts transferred by the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services in a fiscal year under 
        this section shall not exceed 300,000,000 dollars.
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