Bill Details
S.1203 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-31 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Introduced Date
2025-03-31
Policy Area
Housing and Community Development
Committees
View committees (1)
Sponsors
Cosponsors
6
0
0
AI Summary This summary was generated by AI from the bill text. AI can get information wrong.
This bill would give the federal housing agency permission to spend $2 billion on extra rental vouchers for places where population growth has made housing harder to afford. The money would be used to help local housing agencies give more tenant-based housing assistance in areas that have grown quickly and have not received enough vouchers to meet local needs. The goal is to better match housing aid with where people are actually moving, so lower-income renters in fast-growing communities have a better chance of finding affordable homes.
- The money would go to public housing agencies in high-growth areas based on population, unmet housing need, and past shortages in voucher funding.
- To qualify, an area must have more than 100,000 people and be one of the 25 places in the U.S. with the highest population growth from 2012 to 2022.
- The bill authorizes $2 billion for fiscal year 2025.
- That funding would also be available for renewals in later years until the money is used up.
Official Summaries
No summaries available
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1203 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 1203
To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers
for high population areas, and for other purposes.
_______________________________________________________________________
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
March 31, 2025
Mr. Gallego (for himself, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Cortez Masto, and Mr. Kelly)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers
for high population areas, 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 ``Housing Vouchers Fairness Act''.
SEC. 2. RENTAL VOUCHERS FOR HIGH GROWTH POPULATION AREAS.
Section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437f(o)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(23) Rental vouchers for high growth population areas.--
``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall, each year,
using amounts appropriated pursuant to subparagraph
(B), provide additional assistance in an equitable
manner to each eligible public housing agency for
tenant-based assistance, based on the population in the
area served by the public housing agency, the extent to
which existing voucher allocations of the eligible
public housing agency do not meet its housing
affordability needs, and historical shortfalls in
providing assistance to such eligible public housing
agency as a result of voucher formula allocations not
keeping pace with population growth over the period
identified in subparagraph (C)(ii).
``(B) Authorization of appropriations.--There are
authorized to be appropriated to Secretary to carry out
this paragraph $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2025,
which shall be available for renewals in each fiscal
year thereafter until expended.
``(C) Eligible public housing agency defined.--For
the purposes of this paragraph, the term `eligible
public housing agency' means a public housing agency
that administers Federal housing assistance for an area
that, as determined by the Secretary--
``(i) has a population of greater than
100,000; and
``(ii) is one of 25 areas in the United
States that experienced the highest population
growth between 2012 to 2022.''.
<all>