Promoting Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency Act

Bill: 117-hr-3006
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12]
Introduced: 2021-05-07
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Promoting Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency Act </strong></p> <p>This bill provides for the continuation of assistance for public housing residents through certain service programs. Specifically, the bill allows residents of properties that have been converted through the Rental Assistance Demonstration Program to project-based subsidy contracts to continue to receive assistance through (1) the Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency grant program, (2) the Jobs Plus Initiative program, and (3) certain congregate housing services. </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3006 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 7, 2021 Ms. Adams introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To ensure that residents of certain housing projects converted under the rental assistance demonstration of the Department of Housing and Urban Development maintain eligibility for assistance under certain economic self-sufficiency programs, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency Act . 2. Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency program Section 34 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437z–6 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (f) Eligibility for RAD projects Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, assistance under this section may be provided with respect to residents of any housing project for which assistance has been converted under the rental assistance demonstration program under the heading Rental Assistance Demonstration in title II of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 (division C of Public Law 112–55 ; 125 Stat. 673), if assistance was provided under this section with respect to such project before such conversion. . 3. Jobs-Plus Pilot initiative Notwithstanding any other provision of law, assistance under the Jobs-Plus Pilot initiative of the Department of Housing and Urban Development initially authorized under the heading Public Housing Capital Fund in title II of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 (division L of Public Law 113–76 ; 128 Stat. 609) may be provided with respect to residents of any housing project for which assistance has been converted under the rental assistance demonstration program under the heading Rental Assistance Demonstration in title II of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2012 (division C of Public Law 112–55 ; 125 Stat. 673), if assistance was provided under such initiative with respect to such project before such conversion. 4. Revised congregate housing services program Paragraph (6) of section 802(k) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 8011(k)(6) ) is amended— (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) through (F) as subparagraphs (C) through (G), respectively; and (2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraph: (B) public housing that has been converted to assistance under a project-based subsidy contract under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f ) or under a contract under section 8(o)(13) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, and housing otherwise owned by a public housing agency (as such term is defined in section 8(o)(11) of such Act); .