Prioritize Housing for Homeless Veterans Act of 2017

Bill: 115-hr-3313
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11]
Introduced: 2017-07-19
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Drug, alcohol, tobacco use

Housing supply and affordability

Low- and moderate-income housing

Mental health

Public housing

Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Latest action: action_date: 2017-07-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-07-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Prioritize Housing for Homeless Veterans Act of 201</b>7</p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in making certain Veterans Affairs-Supported Housing program funds available among public-housing agencies (PHAs) for rental voucher assistance for homeless veterans who have chronic mental illnesses or chronic substance-use disorders, to: (1)&nbsp;consider, together with current factors, the extent of availability in the areas served by PHAs of housing that is affordable to low-income families; and (2)&nbsp;give priority to metropolitan areas having an efficiency fair-market rent that has increased by more than 10% over the most recent five-year period for which such information is available.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3313 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 19, 2017 Mr. Meadows introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to consider the availability of affordable housing in allocating amounts made available for fiscal year 2017 for the Veterans Affairs–Supported Housing program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Prioritize Housing for Homeless Veterans Act of 2017 . 2. Consideration of availability of affordable housing in making VASH funds available In making the amounts appropriated by paragraph (6) under the heading Public and Indian Housing—Tenant-Based Rental Assistance in title II of division K of Public Law 115–31 available among public housing agencies, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall consider as a factor, together with the factors identified in such paragraph (6), the extent of availability, in the area served by a public housing agency, of housing that is affordable to low-income families, giving priority to metropolitan areas having an efficiency fair market rent that has increased by more than 10 percent over the most recent 5-year period for which such information is available, as determined according to the Fair Market Rent Documentation System of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.