On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in Senate Adt to House Adt to Senate Adt
✓ PassedPassed358 Yea · 32 Nay · 41 Not Voting
Yea:191 D166 R
Nay:0 D32 R
What This Bill Does
Housing for the 21st Century ActThis bill revises federal housing programs, including by expanding available financing for affordable housing and providing grants for planning and community development activities.For example, the bill increases the statutory maximum loan limits for mortgage insurance programs administered by the Federal Housing Administration for multifamily homes and requires the use of a more specific inflation index for such loans.The bill also increases the maximum eligible income for the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) HOME Investment Partnerships Program (grants to states and localities to support housing for low-income households) and establishes a grant program to assist regional, state, and local entities with strategies to support affordable housing.In addition, the billexempts certain housing-related activities from the environmental review process, including certain construction, improvement, or rehabilitation of residential buildings;excludes veterans' disability benefits from being considered as income for purposes of determining eligibility for the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) program;establishes a pilot program to provide grants to public housing agencies (PHAs) and other owners of federally assisted housing to test the efficacy of temperature sensors to support compliance with temperature requirements;eliminates the requirement that manufactured homes must be constructed with a permanent chassis; andauthorizes HUD to conduct performance reviews of organizations that provide housing counseling services.The bill also expands oversight of HUD and PHAs, such as by requiring PHAs to post information about contracts on their websites.For more information about this bill, see CRS Report R48849.
The bill revises and expands various federal housing programs, and eliminates, modifies, or adds certain requirements and policies within federal housing laws.
Watch Items
•The title doesn't specify that the bill's primary goal is to assist low-income households.
•The bill does much more than just focusing on housing, it also includes amendments to how housing-related activities are considered under environmental review, and how certain income is factored in determining eligibility for housing programs.
•Some of the bill's provisions, such as exemptions for certain construction projects and the elimination of the requirement for manufactured homes to be constructed with a permanent chassis, are not explicitly implied by the title.