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Title II — Affordable Housing Activities

H.R. 5319 · 116th Congress · Dec 5, 2019 · Lineage

II Affordable Housing Activities

Sec. 201 National objectives and eligible families

The second 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 Homeownership or lease-to-own low-income requirement and income targeting

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

“(E) notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, in the case of rental housing that is made available to a current rental family for conversion to a homebuyer or a lease-purchase unit, that the current rental family can purchase through a contract of sale, lease-purchase agreement, or any other sales agreement, is made available for purchase only by the current rental family, if the rental family was a low-income family at the time of their initial occupancy of such unit; 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. 203 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. 204 Tribal coordination of agency funding

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

“211. IHS sanitation facilities construction

“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.”

(b)
Clerical Amendment— The table of contents in section 1(b) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 210 the following new item:

Sec. 205 Exception to maximum total development cost for energy efficient housing

Section 103 (25 U.S.C. 4113) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(g) Exception to maximum total development cost for energy efficient housing—The Secretary shall approve a request to exceed the total development cost maximum cost for a project to the extent that such exception is necessary to provide energy efficiency upgrades for the project and the cost of such upgrades does not exceed the average cost of such upgrades in the area in which the project is located.”