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This bill would make the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) face a financial penalty if public housing tenants are living in federally subsidized units while not meeting the law’s community service or self‑sufficiency requirements. Each year the HUD Inspector General must check how many tenants are not following those rules, figure out the total federal subsidy given for the units they occupy, and publish that dollar amount by September 30. Then, on October 15 (or when the HUD funding bill is finally passed if later), the same dollar amount is taken back from HUD’s Management and Administration account. In short, the law forces annual tracking and public reporting of noncompliance and automatically reduces HUD’s management funding by the value of subsidies paid for units occupied by tenants who did not meet the community service/self‑sufficiency rules. The idea is to create a financial incentive for HUD and local housing agencies to enforce those tenant requirements.
- The HUD Inspector General must annually monitor each public housing agency for tenants not meeting community service or self‑sufficiency requirements and calculate the total federal subsidy for those units.
- The Inspector General must publish that calculated dollar amount in the Federal Register by September 30 each fiscal year.
- On October 15 (or when HUD’s general appropriations are enacted if later), HUD must rescind from its Management and Administration funds an amount equal to the published total.
- This creates an annual, automatic funding penalty intended to push HUD and local agencies to enforce tenant participation in required community service or self‑sufficiency programs.
Official Summaries
No Free Rent for Freeloaders Act of 2025
This bill directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), on an annual basis, to
- monitor the extent of noncompliance of public-housing tenants with certain community service and economic self-sufficiency requirements,
- determine the aggregate amount provided in federal subsidies for all public-housing dwelling units that were occupied by noncompliant tenants, and
- publish this amount in the Federal Register.
In each fiscal year, the amount as determined and published for the preceding fiscal year must be rescinded from funds made available for HUD's Management and Administration account.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 115 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 115
To establish a penalty for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development for failure to enforce compliance with the public housing
community service and self-sufficiency requirement under law, and for
other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 3, 2025
Mr. Biggs of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the
Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as
fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To establish a penalty for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development for failure to enforce compliance with the public housing
community service and self-sufficiency requirement under law, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``No Free Rent for Freeloaders Act of
2025''.
SEC. 2. MONITORING COMPLIANCE.
(a) In General.--The Inspector General of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development shall, on an annual basis and for each public
housing agency (as such term is defined in section 3(b) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)))--
(1) monitor the extent of noncompliance with the
requirements under section 12(c) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
1437j(c)); and
(2) determine the aggregate amount provided in Federal
subsidies for all public housing dwelling units that were
occupied by tenants who were not in compliance with such
requirements.
(b) Publication.--Not later than September 30 of each fiscal year,
the Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development shall cause to be published in the Federal Register a
statement of the amount determined for such fiscal year pursuant to
subsection (a)(2).
SEC. 3. RESCISSION OF AMOUNTS FROM HUD MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
ACCOUNT.
(a) In General.--In each fiscal year, on October 15 or the date
specified in subsection (b), whichever occurs later, there is
rescinded, from amounts made available for such fiscal year for the
Management and Administration account of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, an amount equal to the amount published pursuant to
section 2(b) for the preceding fiscal year.
(b) Late Appropriations.--In the case of any fiscal year for which
a general appropriation Act for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development that provides funds for the Management and Administration
account of such Department has not been enacted before October 15, the
date specified in this subsection shall be the date of the enactment of
such a general appropriation Act.
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