Housing bill

National Affordable Housing Act Amendments of 1992 - Title I: General Provisions and Policies - Directs the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and of Agriculture to establish respective performance goals for the major programs of HUD and the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA).

Directs the Secretary of HUD (Secretary) to establish guidelines for State housing credit agency review of project subsidies.

Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to: (1) authorize appropriations for HUD salaries and expenses; and (2) obligate specified funds for training and capacity building of HUD personnel.

Exempts State or local government and housing authority employees engaged in official business from certain consultant registration requirements.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize State grants for removal of regulatory barriers to affordable housing.

Title II: Investment in Affordable Housing - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for the HOME program, with specified set-asides for certain community housing partnership activities and for State and local housing strategies.

Authorizes new housing construction in any rural area upon a certification of priority need and inadequate supply of affordable housing.

Revises HOME provisions regarding: (1) administrative costs; (2) tenant-based rental assistance; (3) maximum subsidy limitations; (4) rent calculations; and (5) resale restrictions.

Repeals the rental housing production set-aside.

Replaces existing tiered matching fund provisions with a single matching fund requirement. Revises matching requirements for fiscally distressed communities.

Extends the community housing production set-aside period.

Directs the Secretary to make available a model program for the redevelopment of blighted urban areas.

Authorizes an owner to terminate a HOME lease after two years if it was provided as short-term transitional housing.

Title III: Homeownership - Subtitle A: Homeownership Initiatives - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for the National Homeownership Trust. Authorizes the Trust to provide second mortgage assistance. Extends demonstration program authority, and includes funds for a program in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Establishes enterprise zone homeownership opportunity grants. Authorizes appropriations.

Subtitle B: FHA and Secondary Mortgage Market - Establishes a National Interagency Task Force which shall study multifamily housing finance in order to develop a multifamily housing loan data base. Authorizes appropriations.

Amends the National Housing Act to direct the Secretary to establish a multifamily finance demonstration program, including a housing finance agency pilot program.

Authorizes expenditures to correct condominium defects.

Authorizes mortgage insurance for additions to nursing homes, intermediate care facilties, and board and care homes.

Establishes a six-year (with execptions) statute of limitations on distributive share payments.

Revises provisions regarding mortgage insurance claim payments.

Makes it a crime to divert insured mortgage loan proceeds.

Increases multifamily mortgage limits for: (1) rental housing; (2) cooperative housing; (3) rehabilitation and neighborhood conservation housing; (4) moderate income and displaced family housing; (5) housing for the elderly; and (6) condominiums.

Title IV: HOPE - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for the HOPE programs.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants for Youthbuild projects which shall employ economically and educationally disadvantaged youth to help construct or rehabilitate rental and transitional housing for homeless persons and low-income families.

Title V: Housing Assistance- Subtitle A: Public and Indian Housing - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize appropriations for: (1) low-income public housing; and (2) public housing family centers. Extends set-asides for: (1) vacancy reduction; and (2) resident management training.

Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to authorize appropriations for public housing early childhood development grants.

Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for Indian public housing early childhood development grants.

Revises public housing management provisions. Requires an independent management assessment for a troubled public housing agency.

Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937, with regard to severely distressed public housing, to authorize: (1) planning and implementation grants; (2) ownership transfer of vacant or substantially vacant projects to private nonprofit organizations or State or local entities; (3) redevelopment grants in connection with such transfers; (4) operating subsidies to priority applicants that acquire eligible housing; and (5) capital improvement subsidies.

Requires transferee entities to have homeownership programs for eligible families, including protection for nonpurchasing residents.

Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to add a new section entitled the Choice in Management Act of 1992. Authorizes a program for the transfer of public housing management from troubled public housing agencies to alternative managers. Authorizes related: (1) obligations for housing rehabilitation; (2) technical assistance to help resident councils and public housing residents choose alternative management; (3) operating subsidies; and (4) capital improvement funding.

Directs the Secretary to review and revise as necessary public and Indian housing regulations and procedures.

Revises provisions regarding: (1) ceiling rents; (2) replacement housing; and (3) preference rules.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to reduce the nonmetropolitan allocation requirement for the public and Indian housing and section 8 programs.

Amends the Public and Assisted Housing Drug elimination Act of 1990 to make specified public housing resident management corporations eligible for drug elimination grants.

Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to set aside funds for public housing modernization program monitoring and management assistance.

Authorizes the use of comprehensive grant funds by certain public housing agencies for acquisition of replacement housing.

Requires specified annual payments to municipalities for services related to Indian public housing.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1981 to permit owners (currently only the public housing agencies) to retain rental assistance fraud recoveries.

Authorizes the Delaware State Housing Authority (in the State of Delaware) to sell certain scattered-site housing.

Establishes a ten-year homeownership demonstration program in Omaha, Nebraska.

Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to make institutions of higher education eligible public housing youth sports grantees.

Subtitle B: Low-Income Rental Assistance - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to permit eligible public housing residents who are first-time homebuyers to use vouchers or certificates for homeownership purposes.

Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to help minority families with children move out of areas with high minority and poverty concentrations.

Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase budget authority for family unification assistance.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 with respect to housing assistance in Jefferson County, Texas.

Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to change the family self-sufficiency program from mandatory to discretionary for Indian housing authorities.

States that certain rehabilitation activities by the Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shall be deemed to have been conducted pursuant to a specified agreement with the Secretary.

Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exclude from income for purposes of public housing assistance certain amounts eligibile for income exclusion under the supplemental security income (SSI) program.

Subtitle C: General Provisions and Other Assistance Programs - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase low-income housing budget authority. Obligates specified funds for various housing programs, including emergency homeownership counseling and prepurchase and foreclosure prevention counseling.

Amends the Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for the drug elimination program.

Expresses the sense of the Senate in favor of age-restricted public housing and the need to provide alternative housing for those nonelderly persons adversely affected.

Title VI: Preservation - Subtitle A: Prepayment of Mortgages Insured Under National Housing Act - Amends the Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for housing preservation.

Amends the National Housing Act with regard to prepayment of insured multifamily project mortgages. Obligates funds for technical and tenant capacity building assistance.

Subtitle B: Other Preservation Provisions - Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to establish new criteria for the program of Federal assistance to troubled multifamily housing projects. Authorizes program appropriations.

Title VII: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 with regard to rural housing to: (1) extend loan and loan guarantee authority; (2) authorize appropriations for rural housing programs; (3) extend set-asides for the deferred mortgage demonstration program; (4) extend set-asides for underserved areas and colonias; (5) extend set-asides for nonprofit entities; (6) permit housing preservation grants to be used for housing replacement; (7) permit FmHA inventory to be used for transitional housing for the homeless and for turnkey housing; (8) establish within FmHA an Office of Rental Housing Preservation; (9) prohibit the transfer of any program to the Rural Development Administration; (10) establish a rural rental housing voucher program; (11) authorize the establishment of revolving loan funds for site acquisition and development; and (12) consider the city of Plainview, Texas, as a rural area for rural housing purposes.

Directs the Comptroller General to study the adequacy of State laws to protect the due process rights of tenants facing eviction under State judicial action.

Title VIII: Housing for Persons With Special Needs - Subtitle A: Supportive Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to authorize appropriations for supportive housing for the elderly (capital advances and project rental assistance).

Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for: (1) the revised congregate housing services program; and (2) HOPE for elderly independence program.

Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to reduce the set-aside for nonmetropolitan supportive housing for the elderly.

Subtitle B: Supportive Housing for Persons With Disabilities - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize program appropriations for supportive housing for persons with disabilities.

Subtitle C: Supportive Housing for the Homeless - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to authorize appropriations for: (1) the emergency shelter grants program; (2) the supportive housing demonstration program; (3) supplemental assistance for facilities to assist the homeless; and (4) shelter plus care. Increases budget authority for section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings.

Authorizes a demonstration grant program to provide very low-cost housing, to be known as Safe Havens, for eligible homeless persons who are currently unwilling or unable to participate in mental health treatment programs or to receive other supportive services. Authorizes appropriations.

Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Afforable Housing Act to extend the publication deadline for a strategy to eliminate unfit transient facilities for homeless families with children.

Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to require the policy-making participation of homeless or formerly homeless persons in the shelter plus care program.

Replaces existing shelter plus care programs of homeless rental assistance, section 8 moderate rehabilitation assistance for single room occupancy, and assistance for the elderly or handicaped with programs of tenant-based, project-based, and sponsor-based rental assistance.

Authorizes appropriations for the shelter plus care program, with specified set-asides for homeless families with children, homeless persons with disabilities, and specified supportive services.

Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the Interagency Council on the Homeless; and (2) the Federal emergency management food and shelter program.

Extends the termination date for the Interagency Council on the Homeless.

Authorizes grants for single room occupancy for the homeless. Permits grants to be used for: (1) acquisition or rehabiliation of existing structures; (2) new construction; (3) operating costs; and (4) technical assistance. Authorizes appropriations.

Subtitle D: Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to authorize appropriations for the program of housing opportunities for persons with AIDS.

Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to require the policy-making participation of homeless or formerly homeless persons in the emergency shelter grants program. Permits a recepient to terminate a participant's assistance for program violations in accordance with a formal process that recognizes the rights of the affected persons.

Title IX: Community Development and Miscellaneous Programs - Subtitle A: Community and Neighborhood Development and Preservation - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 with regard to the community development block grant program (CDBG) to: (1) authorize program appropriations, including set-asides for minority student work study programs, historically black colleges, and U.S. territories; (2) extend real property acquisition and rehabilitation loan guarantee authority; (3) provide a technical assistance set-aside; (4) repeal the nonhousing community development plan requirement; (5) extend set-asides for colonias; and (6) authorize the use of CDBG funds for loans and for economic capacity building.

Makes nonprofit organizations serving community needs in nonentitlement areas eligible to be CDBG recipients. Establishes a small and micro-business development initiative.

Directs the Comptroller General to report on the quality of jobs created pursuant to the CDBG program.

Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to authorize appropriations for the neighborhood development program.

Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to authorize appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation.

Places a specified limit on the amount of CDBG assistance that the city and county of Los Angeles may use for FY 1993 and 1994 public services.

Permits the use of CDBG assistance for Federal or State enterprise zones.

Subtitle B: Regulatory Programs - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to specify that appropriations for the Manufactured Housing Commission shall remain available until expended.

Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 to extend the term of and authorize appropriations for: (1) the National Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Housing; and (2) the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to require the Secretary to develop a new standard for hardboard panel siding on manufactured housing.

Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Programs - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for HUD research and development activities.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 concerning the fair housing initiatives program to: (1) authorize program appropriations; (2) provide for private enforcement initiatives, regional and local programs, and education and outreach activities; and (3) obligate funds for private enforcement initiatives, fair housing enforcement organizations, and education and outreach.

Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to revise provisions regarding employment opportunities for assisted public and Indian housing residents. Directs the Secretary to conduct a related enforcement and implementation study.

Directs the Secretary to assess the housing impact of military base expansion.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to provide homeowner incentives under the Nehemiah housing opportunity grant program.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that States and localities need explicit resource guidelines or additional funds to comply with Federal program mandates.

Community Outreach Partnership Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out a demonstration grant program to facilitate linkages between institutions of higher education and local communities in solving urban problems; and (2) establish a related national advisory council and a national clearinghouse. Authorizes appropriations.

Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to submit reports on community development lending and banking.

Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to establish a new flood insurance program zone for communities in which an existing flood control system that previously provided 100-year protection no longer does so.

Directs the Secretary to establish an energy efficient mortgages pilot program. Authorizes appropriations.

Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to prohibit lump sum relocation payments to displaced residents of HUD housing, except for purposes of moving expenses or purchase downpayments.

Requires publication of final HUD regulations for smoke detector installation.

Directs the Secretary to make grants to strengthen the National Cities in Schools Program and the National Center for Partnership Development. Authorizes appropriations.

Directs the Secreary to immediately implement a specified (employment-based) rent increase limitation provision under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.

Directs the Comptroller General to study the availability of insurance in central cities and distressed urban areas.

Extends certain flood elevation requirements for St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.

Amends the National Flood Insurance Act to extend the time to appeal flood elevation determinations.

Directs the Secretary to cancel certain public facilities loan debt of the town of McLain, Mississippi.

Community Investment Corporation Demonstration Act - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to eligible organizations which will in turn provide access to capital for individual and business initiatives in targeted areas. Authorizes appropriations.

Title X: Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 - Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 - Subtitle A: Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction - Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to States and local entities for lead-based paint hazard reduction activities in private target housing. Authorizes appropriations, including a technical assistance set-aside.

Amends specified Federal housing Acts to require assessments of lead-based paint hazards.

Amends the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act to require the inspection and abatement of lead-based paint hazards in all pre-1978 federally owned residential properties prior to disposition.

Directs the Secretary to establish a task force on lead-based paint hazard reduction and financing.

Subtitle B: Evaluation and Reduction Infrastructure - Requires Federal assessment and reduction of lead-based paint hazards to be conducted by federally certified contractors and laboratories.

Directs the Secretary to: issue lead-based paint hazard assessment and reduction guidelines;

Subtitle C: Public Information and Technical Assistance - Provides for the disclosure of information concerning lead-based paint hazards in contracts for purchase, sale, or leasing of target housing. Requires the Secretary to: (1) publish a related lead hazard information pamphlet; and (2) develop a public awareness campaign regarding the dangers of childhood lead poisoning. Sets aside funds for such activities.

Subtitle D: Research and Development - Part 1: HUD Research - Directs the Secretary to conduct research on: (1) lead exposure from non-paint sources such as exterior soil and lead dust; and (2) lead testing technologies. Sets aside funds for such activities.

Part 2: GAO Report - Directs the General Accounting Office to: (1) assess the availability of liability insurance for owners of residential housing that contains lead-based paint and persons engaged in assessment and reduction activities; and (2) assess Federal enforcement activities.

Subtitle E: Reports - Sets forth reporting requirements.

Title XI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Prohibits the use of 1990 census data, except for population and poverty data, for FY 1993 allocation of CDBG assistance.