Bill Details
HR.889 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-31 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced Date
2025-01-31
Policy Area
Housing and Community Development
Committees
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Sponsors
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This bill would change a federal housing program so the Department of Housing and Urban Development can add more public housing agencies to the Moving to Work demonstration program. The goal is to give more local housing agencies a chance to join the program, which lets them manage housing assistance with more flexibility than under the usual rules. In simple terms, the bill is meant to expand access to this program and reduce the current limit on how many agencies can take part.
- It changes an older housing law from 1996 that sets the rules for the Moving to Work program.
- It would remove the current limit on how many public housing agencies HUD may add to the program, or at least make that limit much less restrictive.
- The bill is very short and does not create a new program; it mainly changes who can join an existing one.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 889 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 889
To amend the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of
1996 to remove the limit on the number of public housing agencies the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may add to the moving to
work demonstration program.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 31, 2025
Mr. Ryan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Financial Services
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A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of
1996 to remove the limit on the number of public housing agencies the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may add to the moving to
work demonstration program.
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 ``Deliver Housing Now Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF LIMIT ON NUMBER OF PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES THAT MAY
BE ADDED TO MOVING TO WORK DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.
Section 204(b) of the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and
Appropriations Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by
striking ``up to 30'' and inserting ``not less than 15''.
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