A joint resolution making an urgent supplemental appropriation for additional annual contract authority for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1984, for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropriation Act of 1984 to make supplemental appropriations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for FY 1984 for annual contribution contracts for assisted housing. Makes the following changes in the budget authority obligated under such contracts: (1) increases the budget authority provided for the modernization of public housing; (2) reserves a specified amount of budget authority for the housing voucher demonstration program; (3) releases a specified amount of deferred budget authority; (4) increases the budget authority provided for rent subsidies for existing housing; (5) requires any recaptured budget authority exceeding a specified amount to be available only for modernization assistance for existing public housing projects; and (6) makes specified amounts of such budget authority available as appropriations of funds for rental housing rehabilitation and development grants for FY 1984 and 1985.