To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide tenant-based rental housing vouchers for certain residents of federally assisted housing.

Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, upon full payment of the mortgage for the East Crown Heights Apartments in Akron, Ohio, to: (1) terminate specified agreements relating to such property; and (2) make tenant-based housing voucher assistance available to the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority for 108 families residing in the property as of the date of such agreements' termination.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1567 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1567

 To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide 
tenant-based rental housing vouchers for certain residents of federally 
                           assisted housing.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2005

Mr. LaTourette introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide 
tenant-based rental housing vouchers for certain residents of federally 
                           assisted housing.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. VOUCHER ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Cancellation of Contract.--Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, upon payment in full of the obligation under the mortgage for 
the East Crown Apartments in Akron, Ohio, that is insured by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under section 236 of the 
National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) and the availability, to the 
public housing agency referred to in subsection (b), of the rental 
assistance specified in such subsection, the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall terminate the following agreements relating to 
such property:
            (1) The Regulatory Agreement and the Use Agreement and 
        Second Amendment of Regulatory Agreement for FHA Project No. 
        042-44059/042-10016.
            (2) Housing Assistance Payments Contract No. OH 12L000199.
    (b) Tenant-Based Rental Assistance.--The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall make available to the Akron Metropolitan 
Housing Authority of Akron, Ohio, tenant-based rental assistance under 
section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) 
in the amount necessary to provide incremental vouchers under such 
section for 108 families. Rental assistance amounts made available 
under this section shall be used only for families who are residing in 
the property described in subsection (a) upon the date of the 
termination of the agreements described in such subsection.
    (c) Funding.--Any amounts previously obligated for housing 
assistance for the property described in subsection (a) that become 
unobligated because of the termination of the contract referred to in 
paragraph (2) of such subsection shall be used by the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development in providing assistance under subsection 
(b).
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