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Title II — Affordable Housing Activities

H.R. 4277 · 113th Congress · Mar 18, 2014 · Lineage

II Affordable Housing Activities

Sec. 201 National objectives and eligible families

Paragraph (6) of section 201(b) (25 U.S.C. 4131(b)(6); relating to exemption) is amended—
(1)
by striking “1964 and” and inserting “1964,”; and
(2)
by inserting after “1968” the following: “, and section 3 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968”.

Sec. 202 Eligible affordable housing activities

Section 202(9)(A) (25 U.S.C. 4132(9)(A)) is amended—
(1)
by striking “only”;
(2)
by striking “administration and planning related to”; and
(3)
by inserting “including administration and planning,” after “section,”.

Sec. 203 Program requirements

Section 203 (25 U.S.C. 4133) is amended—
(1)
in subsection (a)—
(A)
in paragraph (1), by striking “paragraph (2)” and inserting “paragraphs (2) and (3)”; and
(B)
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(3) Application of tribal policies—Paragraph (2) shall not apply if the recipient has a written policy governing rents and homebuyer payments charged for dwelling units and such policy does not include a provision governing maximum rents or homebuyer payments.”

(2)
in subsection (c), by striking “or assisted with” and inserting “by a recipient”; and
(3)
in subsection (e), by striking “assisted with” and inserting “units that are owned or operated by a recipient using”.

Sec. 204 Low-income requirement and income targeting

Section 205 (25 U.S.C. 4135) is amended—
(1)
in subsection (a)—
(A)
in paragraph (1)—
(i)
in subparagraph (C), by striking “and” at the end;
(ii)
in subparagraph (D), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and ”; and
(iii)
by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(E) notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, in the case of rental housing that is made available to a current rental tenant for conversion to a homebuyer or a lease-purchase unit, that the current rental tenant can purchase through a contract of sale, lease-purchase agreement, or any other sales agreement, is made available for occupancy only by a family that is a low-income family at the time of their initial occupancy of such unit; and”

(B)
in paragraph (2)—
(i)
by striking “satisfactory to the Secretary” and inserting “in such form as the Secretary shall, by regulation, require”; and
(ii)
by striking “Secretary)” and inserting “recipient)”; and
(2)
in subsection (c), by adding after the period at the end the following: “The provisions of such paragraph regarding binding commitments for the remaining useful life of the property shall not apply to improvements of privately owned homes if the cost of such improvements do not exceed 10 percent of the maximum total development cost for such home.”.

Sec. 205 Lease requirements and tenant selection

Section 207 (25 U.S.C. 4137) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(c) Notice of termination—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the owner or manager of rental housing that is assisted in part with amounts provided under this Act and in part with one or more other sources of Federal funds shall only utilize leases that require a notice period for the termination of the lease pursuant to subsection (a)(3).”

Sec. 206 Tribal coordination of agency funding

Subtitle A of title II (25 U.S.C. 4131 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

“211. Tribal coordination of agency funding

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a recipient authorized to receive funding under this Act may, in its discretion, use funding from the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services for construction of sanitation facilities for housing construction and renovation projects that are funded in part by funds provided under this Act.”