TENANT PARTICIPATION IN MULTIFAMILY HOUSING PROJECTS.

SEC. 183. TENANT PARTICIPATION IN MULTIFAMILY HOUSING PROJECTS. (a) Applicability.— Section 202(a) of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: “or section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959”. (b) Notice and Comment.— Section 202(b)(1) of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 is amended by striking “and the Secretary deems it appropriate” and inserting the following: “or where the Secretary proposes to sell a mortgage secured by a multifamily housing project”. (c) Nondiscrimination Against Section 8 Certificate Holders and Voucher Holders.— No owner of a subsidized project (as defined in section 203(i)(2) of the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978, as amended by section 181(h) of this Act) shall refuse— (1) to lease any available dwelling unit in any such project of such owner that rents for an amount not greater than the fair market rent for a comparable unit, as determined by the Secretary under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, to a holder of a certificate of eligibility under such section, a proximate cause of which is the status of such prospective tenant as a holder of such certificate, and to enter into a housing assistance payments contract respecting such unit; or (2) to lease any available dwelling unit in any such project of such owner to a holder of a voucher under section 8(o) of such Act, and to enter into a voucher contract respecting such unit, a proximate cause of which is the status of such prospective tenant as holder of such voucher.