A bill to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out a housing choice voucher mobility demonstration to encourage families receiving the voucher assistance to move to lower-poverty areas and expand access to opportunity areas.
Housing Choice Voucher Mobility Demonstration Act of 2019
This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a mobility demonstration program to enable public housing agencies (PHAs) to administer housing-choice rental-assistance vouchers in a manner designed to (1) encourage low-income families receiving such assistance to move to lower-poverty areas, and (2) expand access to opportunity areas.
HUD shall require PHAs applying to participate in the program to submit a specified Regional Housing Mobility Plan.
Became Public Law No: 116-6.
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 16.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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