To revise the standards for eligibility for community development block grant disaster recovery grants, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-hr-6092
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7]
Introduced: 2021-11-30
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Latest action: action_date: 2021-11-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-11-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill modifies factors that must be considered in allocating community development disaster recovery block grants.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill prohibits the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) from establishing a minimum threshold dollar amount when determining whether a ZIP code's damages related to housing are sufficient to qualify. Instead, the bill requires HUD to consider any ZIP code for which the median household income is less than 75% of the national median household income as having sufficient damage<i></i> for that purpose.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6092 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 30, 2021 Mr. Rice of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Clyburn ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services A BILL To revise the standards for eligibility for community development block grant disaster recovery grants, and for other purposes.

1. Community development disaster recovery grants In making any determination of whether any ZIP Code is a most impacted and distressed area for purposes of eligibility for a formula allocation with amounts made available under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 ( 42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq. ) for disaster recovery, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may not establish a minimum threshold dollar amount relating to serious unmet housing need for an area to be considered as having suffered sufficient concentrated damages, but shall consider any ZIP Code for which the median household income is less than 75 percent of the national median household income as having suffered such sufficient concentrated damages.