Housing Programs

Housing Programs homeownership and opportunity for people everywhere grants (hope grants) (including transfer of funds) For the HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership Program as authorized under title III of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437aaa et seq ) and subtitle A of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), $161,000,000; for the HOPE for Homeownership of Multifamily Units Program as authorized under title III of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and subtitle B of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), $95,000,000; for the HOPE for Homeownership of Single Family Homes Program as authorized under title III of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and subtitle C of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, $95,000,000; and for the HOPE for Elderly Independence demonstration program as authorized under section 803(k) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, $10,000,000: Provided, That all amounts shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a mutual housing association shall qualify as an applicant under the HOPE for 105 STAT. 744Homeownership of Multifamily Units Program: Provided further, That in selecting eligible families to acquire vacant units under the HOPE for Homeownership of Single Family Homes program, the recipient shall give a first preference to otherwise qualified eligible families who reside in public or Indian housing: Provided further, That of the amounts made available by this paragraph, $225,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from amounts made available for nonincremental use under the heading “Annual contributions for assisted housing” in fiscal year 1991 and prior years which remains unreserved at the end of fiscal year 1991. home investment partnerships program For the HOME investment partnerships program, as authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), $1,500,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary shall not, as a condition of assisting a participating jurisdiction under such Act using amounts provided herein for fiscal year 1992 only, require any contributions by or in behalf of a participating jurisdiction, notwithstanding section 220 of such Act. annual contributions for assisted housing (including rescission of funds) For assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (“the Act” herein) (42 U.S.C. 1437), not otherwise provided for, $8,070,201,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That to be added to and merged with the foregoing amounts, there shall be $2,287,000,000, consisting of $537,000,000 of budget authority previously made available under this head for nonincremental purposes which remains unreserved at the end of fiscal year 1991; and $1,750,000,000 of section 8 funds arising from the conversion to the new capital advance program of projects previously reserved under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 as it existed before enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act: Provided further, That, from the foregoing total of $10,357,201,000, $227,170,000 shall be for the development or acquisition cost of public housing for Indian families, including amounts for housing under the mutual help homeownership opportunity program under section 202 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437bb); $573,983,000 shall be for the development or acquisition cost of public housing, including $15,719,158 for a demolition/disposition demonstration program in Saint Louis, Missouri, pursuant to section 513 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), and, notwithstanding the 20 per centum limitation under section 5(j)(2) of the Act, of the $573,983,000 for the development or acquisition of public housing, $200,000,000 shall be awarded competitively for construction or major reconstruction of obsolete public housing projects, other than for Indian families: Provided further, That of the $10,357,201,000 total under this head, $2,800,975,000 shall be for modernization of existing public housing projects pursuant to section 14 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 14371), including funds for the comprehensive testing, abatement, and risk assessment of lead, of which $25,000,000 shall be for the risk assessment of lead and $5,000,000 shall be for technical assistance and training under 105 STAT. 745section 20 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437r), and $7,437,600 shall be for a demolition/disposition demonstration program in Saint Louis, Missouri, pursuant to section 513 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625): Provided further, That of the $10,357,201,000 total under this head, $915,750,000 shall be for the section 8 existing housing certificate program (42 U.S.C. 14370, including $50,000,000 for a Foster Child Care demonstration program involving 11 States, $12,840,790 for a demolition/disposition demonstration program in Saint Louis, Missouri, pursuant to section 513 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), and $20,000,000 for a demonstration involving five cities with populations exceeding 400,000 in metropolitan areas with populations exceeding 1,500,000, under which the Secretary shall carry out metropolitan-wide programs, designed to assist families with children to move out of areas with high concentrations of persons living in poverty, through contracts with nonprofit organizations and through annual contributions contracts with public housing agencies for administration of housing assistance payments contracts: Provided further, That of the $10,357,201,000 total provided under this head, $794,167,000 shall be for the housing voucher program under section 8(o) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)); $2,300,000,000 shall be for amendments to section 8 contracts other than contracts for projects developed under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, including $70,000,000 which shall be for rental adjustments resulting from the application of an annual adjustment factor in accordance with section 801 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (Public Law 101–235); $618,462,000 shall be for assistance for State or local units of government, tenant and nonprofit organizations to purchase projects where owners have indicated an intent to prepay mortgages and for assistance to be used as an incentive to prevent prepayment or for vouchers to aid eligible tenants adversely affected by mortgage prepayment, as authorized in the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), and of the $618,462,000 made available for such assistance, up to $25,000,000 shall be for use by nonprofit organizations, pursuant to section 212 of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987, as amended by the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), and for tenant and community-based nonprofit education, training and capacity building and the development of State and local preservation strategies; $88,884,000 shall be for section 8 assistance for property disposition; and $257,000,000 shall be for loan management: Provided further, That any amounts of budget authority provided herein that are used for loan management activities under section 8(b)(1)(42 U.S.C. 1437f(b)(1)) shall be obligated for a contract term that is no more than five years: Provided further, That those portions of the fees for the costs incurred in administering incremental units assisted in the certificate and housing voucher programs under sections 8(b) and 8(o), respectively, shall be established or increased in accordance with the authorization for such fees in section 8(q) of the Act: Provided further, That up to $167,000,000 of amounts of budget authority (and contract authority) reserved or obligated for the development or acquisition costs of public housing (including public housing for Indian families), for modernization of existing public housing projects (including such projects for Indian families), and, except as herein provided, for programs under section 8 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 105 STAT. 746143f), which are recaptured during fiscal year 1992, shall be rescinded: Provided further, That 50 per centum of the amounts of budget authority, or in lieu thereof 50 per centum of the cash amounts associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 (Public Law 101628, 102 Stat. 3224, 3268) shall not be rescinded, or in the case of cash, shall not be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts of budget authority or cash shall be used by State housing finance agencies in accordance with such section: Provided further, That of the $10,357,201,000 total, $50,000,000 shall be for housing opportunities for persons with AIDS under title VIII, subtitle D of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625) and $50,000,000 shall be for grants to States and units of general local government for the abatement of significant lead-based paint and lead dust hazards in low- and moderate-income owner- occupied units and low-income privately-owned rental units: Provided further, That such grant funds shall be available only for projects conducted by contractors certified and workers trained through a federally- or State-accredited program: Provided further, That, to be eligible for such grants, States and units of general local government must demonstrate the capability to identify significant-hazard housing units, to oversee the safe and effective conduct of the abatement, and to assure the future availability of abated units to low- and moderate-income persons; and $4,200,000 shall be for the housing demonstration under section 304(e)(1) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625); Provided further, That of the $54,250,000 earmarked in Public Law 101–507 for special purpose grants (104 Stat. 1351, 1357), $667,000 made available for the city of Chicago to assist the Ashland II Redevelopment Project shall instead be made available for the city of Chicago to assist the Marshway Project: Provided further, That notwithstanding the language preceding the first proviso of this paragraph, $150,000,000 shall be used for special purpose grants in accordance with the terms and conditions specified for such grants in the committee of conference report and statement of managers (H. Rept. 102–226) accompanying this H.R. 2519, including $500,000 for the city of Kansas City, Kansas to operate a social service center. Of the $10,357,201,000 total under this head, $538,808,000 shall be for capital advances for housing for the elderly as authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended by section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625); $451,200,000 shall be for project rental assistance for supportive housing for the elderly under such section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; $148,700,000 shall be for amendments to rental assistance contracts for projects for the elderly that receive capital advances or projects reserved under section 202 as it existed before enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; and $16,250,000 shall be for service coordinators pursuant to section 202(g) of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended by section 808 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625): Provided, That to the extent that the funding provided herein for rental assistance contracts for the elderly that receive capital advances is insufficient to match the units provided through capital advances, funds deemed excess in other section 8 programs may be added to and merged with the rental assistance 105 STAT. 747funding to ensure that sufficient rental assistance units are available. Of the $10,357,201,000 total under this head, $102,860,000 shall be for capital advances for housing for persons with disabilities as authorized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625); $100,159,000 shall be for project rental assistance for persons with disabilities under section 811(b)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; and $23,300,000 shall be for amendments to rental assistance contracts for projects for the handicapped that receive capital advances, including projects previously reserved under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 as it existed before enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall make a commitment and provide capital advance assistance under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended by section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, or section 811 of such Act if the project is for persons with disabilities, for any project for which there is a loan reservation under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 as it existed before enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, if the loan has not been executed and recorded, and if the project is making satisfactory progress under 24 CFR section 885.230: Provided, That the Secretary shall not make such commitments and provide such capital advance assistance before January 1, 1992: Provided further, That the Secretary shall have the discretion until April 1, 1992 not to terminate a project and not to convert a project to capital advance assistance: Provided further, That upon converting a project to capital advance assistance, the loan reservation for such project shall be terminated: Provided further, That a project not making satisfactory progress under 24 CFR section 885.230 shall not have its loan reservation terminated before January 1, 1992, and the Secretary shall ensure that the processing of all projects through loan execution and recordation or the making of the capital advance is expedited, and that no project being so processed shall have the order in which it is processed arbitrarily changed: Provided further, That an owner of a project that is converted pursuant to this paragraph shall be permitted voluntarily to provide funds for capital costs in addition to the capital advance, from debt or other non-Federal sources. With respect to each project that has a loan reservation terminated pursuant to the immediately foregoing paragraph, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall convert each funding reservation that was made under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 or section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959, before enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, to a commitment for project rental assistance under such section 202 as amended by section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act or section 811 of the Act. assistance for the renewal of expiring section 8 subsidy contracts For assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437) not otherwise provided for, for use in connection with expiring section 8 subsidy contracts, $7,355,128,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That funds provided under this paragraph may not be obligated for a contract term that is less than 105 STAT. 748five years: Provided further, That the Secretary may maintain consolidated accounting data for funds disbursed at the Public Housing Agency or Indian Housing Authority or project level for subsidy assistance regardless of the source of the disbursement so as to minimize the administrative burden of multiple accounts. Further, for the foregoing purposes, $850,000,000, to become available for obligation on October 1, 1992, and to remain available for obligation until expended. For those projects in the State of Maine, the owners of which have converted their section 23 leased housing contracts (former section 23 of the Act, as amended by section 103(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89–117, 79 Stat. 451, 455) to section 8, the subsidy provided shall be for a five-year extension of such projects’ current housing assistance payments contracts. rental housing assistance (rescission) The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum payments that may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into under section 236 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-l) is reduced in fiscal year 1992 by not more than $2,393,000 in uncommitted balances of authorizations provided for this purpose in appropriations Acts. rent supplement program (rescission) The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum payments that may be required in any fiscal year by all contracts entered into under section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s), is reduced in fiscal year 1992 by not more than $2,448,000 in uncommitted balances of authorizations provided for this purpose in appropriations Acts. congregate services For contracts with and payments to public housing agencies and non-profit corporations for congregate services programs in accordance with the provisions of the Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978, as amended, $17,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 1993. payments for operation of low-income housing projects For payments to public housing agencies and Indian housing authorities for operating subsidies for low-income housing projects as authorized by section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), $2,450,000,000: Provided, That of the funds provided under this heading, $294,156,000 shall not become available for obligation until September 20, 1992. housing counseling assistance For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided for, for providing counseling and advice to tenants and homeowners—both current and prospective—with respect to property 105 STAT. 749maintenance, financial management, and such other matters as may be appropriate to assist them in improving their housing conditions and meeting the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership, including provisions for training and for support of voluntary agencies and services as authorized by section 106(a)(1)(iii), section 106(a)(2), section 106(c), and section 106(d) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, $6,025,000, of which $350,000 shall be available for the prepurchase and foreclosure-prevention counseling demonstration program. flexible subsidy fund For assistance to owners of eligible multifamily housing projects insured, or formerly insured, and under the National Housing Act, as amended, or which are otherwise eligible for assistance under section 201(c) of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1a), in the program of assistance for troubled multifamily housing projects under the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978, as amended, $50,000,000, and all uncommitted balances of excess rental charges as of September 30, 1991, and any collections and other amounts in the fund authorized under section 201(j) of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978, as amended, during fiscal year 1992, to remain available until expended: Provided, That assistance to an owner of a multifamily housing project assisted, but not insured, under the National Housing Act may be made if the project owner and the mortgagee have provided or agreed to provide assistance to the project in a manner as determined by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. fha—mutual mortgage insurance program account (including transfers of funds) During fiscal year 1992, commitments to guarantee loans to carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the National Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed a loan principal of $60,000,000,000. For administrative expenses necessary to carry out the guaranteed loan program, $255,645,000, to be derived from the FHA-Mutual Mortgage Insurance Guaranteed Loans Receipt account, of which not to exceed $250,100,000 may be transferred to and merged with the appropriations for salaries and expenses; and of which not to exceed $5,545,000 may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for the Office of Inspector General. fha—general and special risk program account (including transfers of funds) For the cost, as defined in section 13201 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, including the cost of modifying loans, of guaranteed loans under such funds authorized by the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3(b) and 1735c(f)), $54,911,000: Provided, That these funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the total loan principal any part of which is to be guaranteed of not to exceed $8,651,901,000. In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry out the guaranteed loan programs, $189,000,000, of which $184,900,000 shall 105 STAT. 750be transferred and merged with the appropriations for salaries and expenses; and of which $4,100,000 shall be transferred and merged with the appropriation for the Office of Inspector General. fha—general and special risk insurance funds On October 1, 1991, each outstanding obligation issued by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 520(b) of the National Housing Act, as amended, together with any promise to repay the principal and interest which has accrued on each obligation, and any other term or condition specified by each such obligation, is canceled. drug elimination grants for low-income housing For grants to public housing agencies for use in eliminating drug-related crime in public housing projects authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11901–11908, and for drug information clearinghouse services authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11921–11925, $165,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That $5,700,000 of the foregoing amount shall be available for grants, contracts, or other assistance for technical assistance and training for or on behalf of public housing agencies and resident organizations (including the costs of necessary travel for participants in such training): Provided further, That $10,000,000 of the foregoing amount shall be made available for grants for federally assisted, low-income housing.