---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1437bbb–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1437bbb–3"
heading: "Applicability of requirements under programs for covered housing assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1437bbb-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Low-Income Housing"
  - "Subchapter II–B — Home Rule Flexible Grant Demonstration"
---

# §1437bbb–3. Applicability of requirements under programs for covered housing assistance

- (a) **In general—** In each fiscal year of the demonstration program under this subchapter, amounts made available to a [participating jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=2) under the demonstration program shall be subject to the same terms and conditions as such amounts would be subject to if made available under the provisions of this chapter pursuant to which covered [housing assistance](/usc/42/13641.md?p=3) is otherwise made available under this chapter to the public housing [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for the [jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=1), except that—
  - (1) the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) may waive any such term or condition identified by the [jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=1) to the extent that the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) determines such action to be appropriate to carry out the purposes of the demonstration program under this subchapter; and
  - (2) the [participating jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=2) may combine the amounts made available and use the amounts for any activity eligible under the programs under sections [1437f](/usc/42/1437f.md) and [1437g](/usc/42/1437g.md) of this title.
- (b) **Number of families assisted—** In carrying out the demonstration program under this subchapter, each [participating jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=2) shall assist substantially the same total number of eligible low-income families as would have otherwise been served by the public housing [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for the [jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=1) had the [jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=1) not participated in the demonstration program under this subchapter.
- (c) **Protection of recipients—** This subchapter may not be construed to authorize the termination of assistance to any recipient receiving assistance under this chapter before October 21, 1998, as a result of the implementation of the demonstration program under this subchapter.
- (d) **Effect on ability to compete for other programs—** This subchapter may not be construed to affect the ability of any applying or [participating jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=2) (or a public housing [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) for any such [jurisdiction](/usc/42/1437bbb–8.md?p=1)) to compete or otherwise apply for or receive assistance under any other [housing assistance](/usc/42/13641.md?p=3) program administered by the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2).

## Source credit

(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 896, title IV, § 404, as added Pub. L. 105–276, title V, § 561, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2619.)