A bill to amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to allow newly designated metropolitan cities to retain their former status, permitting a county which was an urban county to retain its status as an urban county.

Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to allow a unit of local government to defer its classification as a metropolitan city as long as it continues to have its population included in an urban county for purposes of provisions governing community development block grants.