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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 July 1990
147 Mr. Currie asked the Minister for Energy when gas will be supplied to certain housing estates (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 July 1990
147 Mr. Currie asked the Minister for Energy when gas will be supplied to certain housing estates (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 July 1990
29 Mr. Flanagan asked the Minister for Energy whether he has had discussions with Bord Gáis Éireann with a view to framing plans for the phased expansion of gas to the non-gas housing estates in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 July 1990
7 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Energy whether he has had discussions with Bord Gáis Éireann with a view to framing plans for the phased expansion of gas to the non-gas housing estates in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 5158 (appropriations).
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991 - Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes appropriations for FY 1991 to the Department of Veterans Affairs for: (1) the Veterans Benefits Administration; (2) the Veterans Health Services and Research Administration; and (3) departmental administration, including the Office of the Inspector General. Authorizes the transfer of funds among specified appropriations. Authorizes the use of appropriations to procure consultant services. Authorizes the use of certain appropriations to pay prior year accrued obligations for certain benefits. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) housing programs; (2) community planning and development; (3) research and technology; (4) fair housing activities; and (5) management and administration, including the Office of the Inspector General. Limits the amounts of specified loan obligations, including guarantee commitments of the Government National Mortgage Association. Makes funds available for the renewal of expiring low-income subsidy contracts. Makes funds available for grants to public housing agencies for use in eliminating drug-related crime in public housing projects. Makes funds available for the low-income moderate rehabilitation program to be used to assist homeless individuals. Withdraws funds previously appropriated for solar and conservation improvements. Allows the following municipalities to retain land disposition proceeds from certain financially closed-out projects not paid to HUD: (1) the City of Lebanon, Pennsylvania; (2) the City of Nanticoke, the Boroughs of Plymouth and Forty Fort, all in Pennsylvania; (3) Pittsfield, Massachusetts; and (4) the Borough of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Requires the municipalities to use such proceeds in accordance with the community development block grant program. Cancels the indebtedness of Fairmount Heights, Maryland, relating to a public facilities loan. Authorizes the Housing Authority of the City of Seattle, Washington, to use excess residual reserve receipts from specified projects for any purpose which benefits the low-income tenants of projects owned by the Authority. Restores previously appropriated funds for the construction of low-income housing in Santa Cruz, California. Amends the National Housing Act to extend the current maximum Federal Housing Administration loan limitation for mortgage insurance from FY 1990 to 1991. Sets forth limitations on average employment in HUD headquarter offices. Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1991 to the: (1) American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) Consumer Product Safety Commission; (3) Court of Veterans Appeals; (4) Department of Defense-Civil for cemeterial expenses, Army; (5) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for salaries and expenses, Office of Inspector General, research and development, abatement, control and compliance, buildings and facilities, Hazardous Substance Superfund and the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund, and construction grants; (6) Executive Office of the President for the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Environmental Quality, the National Space Council, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (7) Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster relief, salaries and expenses, the Office of Inspector General, emergency management planning and assistance, the National Flood Insurance Fund, and the emergency food and shelter program; (8) General Services Administration for the Consumer Information Center; (9) Department of Health and Human Services for the Office of Consumer Affairs; (10) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); (11) National Credit Union Administration for the obligations of the Central Liquidity Facility; (12) National Institute of Building Sciences; (13) National Science Foundation; (14) Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (15) Selective Service System. Requires the NASA Administrator and the EPA Administrator to ensure that at least eight percent of Federal funding for the development, construction, and operation of the space station be available to business concerns or other organizations owned or controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, including historically Black colleges and universities and minority educational institutions, and economically disadvantaged women. Sets forth limitations on average employment in EPA headquarters. Makes funds available to the Interagency Council on the Homeless as authorized under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. Title IV: Corporations - Authorizes certain corporations and agencies of HUD to make commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as necessary to carry out provisions under the Government Corporation Control Act. Allows any collections by such corporations and agencies to be used for new loan or mortgage purchase commitments to the extent provided under this Act, with specified exceptions. Makes funds available for payment of expenditures of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) Resolution Fund and for the Office of Inspector General of the Resolution Trust Corporation. Requires the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to report quarterly to the Committees on Appropriations on the FSLIC Resolution Fund. Title V: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses, limitations, and prohibitions on uses of funds appropriated by this Act. Requires FY 1991 pay raises to be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act. Prohibits the obligation of community planning funds to any municipality that fails to adopt and enforce a policy prohibiting the use of excessive force by law enforcement agencies against individuals engaged in nonviolent civil rights demonstrations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
Housing and Community Development Act of 1990 - Title I: National Housing Trust Demonstration - Subtitle A: National Housing Trust Demonstration - National Housing Trust Act - Establishes: (1) the National Housing Trust in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide assistance to first-time homebuyers; and (2) the National Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury to provide funds for such assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Trust on September 30, 1993. Subtitle B: Other Homeownership Demonstration Programs - Part 1: Homeownership Made Easier Demonstration - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to provide matching contribution certificates for homeownership downpayments and related settlement costs. Requires an eligible buyer to establish a HOME savings certificate account. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits the issuance of a matching certificate to HOME savings accounts established after September 30, 1991. Part 2: Second Mortgages for First-Time Homebuyers - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to local governments and nonprofit organizations for second mortgage assistance for first-time homebuyers. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Rental Housing Production - Authorizes the Secretary to provide repayable advances to assist eligible sponsors to acquire, rehabilitate, or construct rental housing. Establishes in the Treasury the Rental Housing Production Fund to carry out such program. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: HOPE Programs - Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize planning and implementation grants for public and Indian housing homeownership. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: HOPE for Homeownership of Multifamily Units - Authorizes the Secretary to make planning and implementation grants for multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: HOPE for Homeownership of Single Family Homes - Authorizes the Secretary to make planning and implementation grants for single family homes. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Other HOPE Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a demonstration program of combining housing certificates and supportive services in order to assist frail elderly persons to live independently. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public housing authorities (including Indian housing authorities) to improve vacant public housing units. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the United States Housing Act to establish HOPE for Family Self-Sufficiency programs to promote local strategies to coordinate certificate and voucher assistance with public and private resources to enable eligible families to achieve economic independence. Authorizes grants for family self-sufficiency assistance facilities. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Housing Opportunity Zones - Authorizes the Secretary to designate housing opportunity zones and approve barrier-removal plans for cities and urban counties in order to remove legislative and administrative barriers to new and rehabilitated housing production. Title IV: Community Housing Partnership - Community Housing Partnership Act - Subtitle A: Housing Education and Organizational Support Grants for Community Based Housing Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to provide housing education and organizational support grants to eligible cities and States and directly to nonprofit sponsors and nonprofit organizations. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Community Housing Partnership Grants - Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to cities and States and grants and loans to nonprofit sponsors to acquire, construct, and rehabilitate low-and moderate-income housing. Allocates community partnership housing grants among metropolitan and urban areas, States for non-urban use, and nonprofit sponsors. Directs the Secretary to carry out combined housing and economic development demonstration programs in the following areas: (1) Milwaukee, Wisconsin; (2) the District of Columbia; and (3) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Defines specified terms for purposes of this title. Title V: Housing Assistance - Subtitle A: Programs Under the United States Housing Act of 1937 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase FY 1990 and 1991 lower income housing budget authority. Revises public housing eviction and termination procedures. Directs the Secretary to develop public housing agency (PHA) performance standards, including designation standards for troubled public housing agencies and agreements for corrective measures. Provides for project-based accounting systems. Extends authorization of appropriations for discretionary contributions for the operation of lower income housing projects. Provides as an allowance expense certain PHA litigation costs against the Federal Government. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 regarding the allocation of public and Indian housing modernization funding to: (1) establish a formula allocation for PHAs with 500 or more units (including amounts set aside for disaster- or emergency-caused modernization needs and for troubled agencies); and (2) establish special purpose management modernization for PHAs with fewer than 500 units. Authorizes up to 25 percent of public housing contribution contract units to be made available to lower income families other than very low-income families. Extends authorization of appropriations for public housing resident management assistance. Makes Indian mutual help ownership projects eligible for comprehensive improvement assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to waive public housing income eligibility and rent requirements for police officer or security personnel tenants. Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to obligate specified funds for public housing early childhood learning services grants. Obligates specified funds for Indian public housing early childhood learning services. Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to extend the authorization of appropriations for public housing drug elimination grants. Authorizes the use of certain funds for youth sports programs in public housing projects with substantial drug use problems. Directs the Secretary to establish a public housing one-stop perinatal services demonstration program. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase the exemption from public housing and section 8 requirements. Requires lower income housing PHAs to make units available to families involved in foster care child placement or reunification. Provides section 8 certificates for such families. Authorizes appropriations. Permits section 8 separate fair market rent calculations for areas within a housing market area under specified circumstances. Permits a PHA to enter into a section 8 contract of less than 12 months duration if the annual contribution contract is within one year of expiration. Permits section 8 assistance for PHA-owned units. Provides section 8 assistance for FY 1991 use to Norfolk, Virginia, in connection with a specified settlement agreement. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study and report to the Congress regarding section 8 failure rates. Directs the Secretary to carry out a feasibility study and report to the Congress regarding Indian housing authority eligibility for section 8 vouchers. Extends authorization of appropriations for rental rehabilitation grants. Exempts the county of Santa Cruz, California, from certain housing development grant construction commencement requirements. Subtitle B: Other Housing Assistance Programs - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 with regard to the housing for the elderly and handicapped program (section 202) to: (1) extend borrowing and loan authority; (2) consider AIDS an eligible handicap; (3) make elder cottage housing units and Resolution Trust Corporation properties eligible program housing; and (4) obligate specified funds for housing and services for the frail elderly. Makes service coordinators and a specified amount of supportive expenses eligible section 202 project costs. Provides for centralized section 202 housing application locations. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress regarding the section 202 housing program. Amends the Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the congregate housing services program. Revises the congregate housing services program. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of appropriations for housing counseling and emergency homeownership counseling. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend authority for the multifamily housing disposition partnership. Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to restrict use of the Flexible Subsidy Fund to only the flexible subsidy program. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend the authorization of appropriations and authority for the Nehemiah housing opportunity grant program. Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to revise property disposition requirements for unsubsidized multifamily housing projects. Directs the Secretary to make grants for home repair services for older homeowners and disabled homeowners. Gives preference to very low-income persons and persons with the greatest social needs. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make State grants to establish housing revolving funds for low- to moderate-income renters and first-time homebuyers. Directs the Comptroller General to audit such activities. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend rural housing program authorizations for: (1) insurance and guarantee authority; (2) rural housing assistance; (3) rental assistance; (4) supplemental rental assistance; (5) rental housing loans; and (6) mutual and self-help housing grants and loans. Requires the Secretary to follow State foreclosure procedures to the extent they are more beneficial to the borrower than procedures that the Secretary would otherwise follow. Requires that interests on Indian lands be disposed only to a tribal member, the tribe, or the appropriate Indian housing authority. Authorizes the assumption of loans under the housing program for elderly persons and families in rural areas. Revises the definition of rural area. Authorizes a deferred mortgage demonstration program for persons with income below rural housing loan qualifying levels. Directs the Secretary to provide guaranteed rural housing loans to moderate income borrowers in areas where there is an insufficient availability of mortgage financing from other sources. Gives priority to first-time homebuyers. Directs the Secretary to designate specified numbers of targeted underserved housing areas. Sets aside specified lending funds for such areas. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance for migrant farmworkers and homeless individuals. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Community Development, Mortgage Insurance and Secondary Mortgage Market, and Miscellaneous Programs - Subtitle A: Community and Neighborhood Development and Preservation - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend authorization of appropriations for the community development block grant program (CDBG). Obligates specified funds for: (1) grants to institutions of higher education; (2) grants to historically black colleges; (3) grants in Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; (4) grants to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a database system and computer mapping tool to program and evaluate community development block grants; and (5) establishment of a national computerized database. Increases the minimum percentage of CDBG funds targeted for low- and moderate-income individuals. Makes permanent a city's authority to elect not to retain its metropolitan city classification. Revises urban county classification requirements. Authorizes the provision of lump-sum payments to revolving loan funds. Requires: (1) recipients to submit prioritized lists of anticipated community development needs; and (2) the Secretary to compile such lists into a national computerized database. Revises the allocation formula for a metropolitan city that has annexed an urban county. Permits CDGB fund use for direct homeownership assistance. Revises community development loan guarantee provisions with regard to: (1) guarantee of loans issued by nonentitlement communities and territories; (2) guarantee of housing construction loans; (3) loan repayment periods; (4) outstanding loan guarantee amount per issuer; (5) allocation of loan guarantees and limitation on amount guaranteed for each community; (6) debt payment assistance; (7) training and information; (8) annual reports; and (9) regulations. Exempts the provision of CDBG grantee assistance to Hawaiian Home Lands from certain nondiscrimination provisions. Revises Indian CDBG provisions regarding: (1) inapplicability of low- and moderate-income requirements; and (2) fund allocation and distribution. Authorizes the acquisition of single family properties from the Resolution Trust Corporation for urban homestead use. Extends the urban homestead authorization of appropriations and authorizes additional appropriations. Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to extend the rehabilitation loan program. Limits loan commitments to amounts provided for in appropriation Acts. Repeals nonresidential use provisions. Limits multifamily loan amounts. Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Obligates specified appropriations to: (1) expand the national neighborhood housing services network; (2) expand the loan capacity of the national neighborhood housing services secondary market operated by the Neighborhood Housing Services of America; (3) make grants to extend low-income housing use; and (4) provide matching grants and subsidies to mutual housing associations for the acquisition and rehabilitation of multifamily and single family housing. Directs the Corporation to study and report to the Congress regarding: (1) neighborhood development opportunities on Indian trust lands; and (2) lower income family home purchase and rehabilitation assistance programs, including "sweat equity" contributions. Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the neighborhood development demonstration program. Authorizes the use of specified urban renewal land disposition proceeds and certain other community development and public facility funds by: (1) Nanticoke, the Borough of Plymouth, and the Borough of Forty Fort, in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania; (2) Vallejo, California; (3) New Haven, Connecticut; (4) Lebanon, Pennsylvania; (5) East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; and (6) Fairmount Heights, Maryland. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding the availability of housing proximate to places of employment. Subtitle B: Mortgage Insurance and Secondary Mortgage Market Programs - Amends the National Housing Act to extend and limit Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance program authority. Increases mortgage limits. Requires mortgagee disclosure of interest due upon mortgage prepayment. Prohibits FHA mortgages from varying mortgage costs and interest rates on the basis of the loan amount. Directs the Secretary to assess mortgagee performance in meeting a community's residential lending needs. Includes the Virgin Islands among high-cost FHA insurance areas. Provides cash incentives to forestall mortgage "put" options. Revises energy efficiency standards for new FHA-insured housing to include the 1989 Model Energy Code of the Council of American Builders. Increases the number of mortgages that may be insured under the home equity conversion demonstration program for elderly homeowners. Increases loan limits for property improvement loan insurance. Disapproves, and prohibits the Secretary from implementing, a certain HUD regulation regarding property disposition. Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to extend Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) mortgage-back security guarantee authority. Requires the Secretary to implement a delegated mortgage processing system. Extends the section 235 lower income homeownership program. Extends program payment, insurance, and housing stimulus authorities. Excludes amounts not actually received from the definition of income under the section 236 rental assistance program. Authorizes owner reimbursement for capital advances and operating loss expenditures. Subtitle C: Regulatory and Other Programs - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend the authorization of appropriations and program authority for the fair housing initiatives program. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to extend the authorization of appropriations for housing research and development. Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to require services of federally related mortgages to: (1) make certain applicant disclosures with regard to loan servicing assignment, sale, or transfer; and (2) provide borrowers with certain escrow account information, including notification of account shortage. Prohibits a servicer from charging an escrow account statement fee. Amends the Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to revise manufactured home construction and safety standards. Directs the Secretary to establish a system to issue periodically interpretations of such standards and provide affected parties with notice and opportunity for comment. Reduces National Manufactured Home Advisory Council membership. Revises related provisions regarding: (1) research, testing, development, and training; (2) prohibited acts; (3) jurisdiction and venue; (4) standards noncompliance; (5) inspection criteria; (6) manufacturer notification and safety hazard correction; (7) manufacturer certification of conformity with construction and safety standards and warranties; (8) inspection fees; (9) consumer information; (10) State jurisdiction; and (11) reports to the Congress. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for the National Institute of Building Sciences. Exempts volunteer laborers or mechanics doing construction or rehabilitation under specified housing programs from Davis-Bacon Act requirements. Limits (up to ten percent annually) for three years the annual amount of assisted housing rent increases based upon increased income due to the employment of a formerly unemployed family member. Waives Indian housing matching fund requirements. (Permits an Indian housing authority to use Federal funds for matching amounts.) Authorizes Native Hawaiian HUD preference for Hawaiian homelands housing. Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to the Congress at least annually about housing energy use and efficiency; (2) establish an energy efficiency standard; (3) carry out an energy efficiency demonstration program (authorizes appropriations for this); and (4) establish a five-year energy efficiency plan. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for a low-income housing conservation and efficiency grant program. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop seismic safety standards for HUD assisted properties; and (2) report annually to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to carry out a two-year program to: (1) promote the development of affordable housing information through the reform of regulations and administrative restrictions; and (2) study model communities. Subtitle D: Disaster Relief - Provides, in any fiscal year in which the President declares a major disaster, increased assistance for the following programs: (1) section 8 certificates and vouchers; (2) moderate rehabilitation; (3) community development block grants; (4) urban development action grants; and (5) rural housing. Title VIII: Homeless Prevention - Subtitle A: Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to make permanent certain provisions regarding mortgage prepayment and other low-income housing preservation measures. Authorizes owner prepayment of a mortgage insured under the National Housing Act without HUD approval if the owner has notified the Secretary, the appropriate local government, the mortgagee, and the tenants. Requires the Secretary to publish a list of all properties subject to prepayment. Sets forth notification provisions. Provides owner incentives to maintain low-income housing. Provides for the voluntary sale of projects to tenants (resident homeownership). Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance for such purpose. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the National Housing Act to revise low-income housing mortgage insurance provisions. Subtitle B: Other Homeless Prevention Programs - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to set aside specified FY 1990 and 1991 budget authority for the following homeless prevention activities: (1) section 8 property disposition; (2) section 8 loan management; (3) section 8 contract extensions; (4) section 8 contract amendments; and (5) public housing lease adjustments. Amends the Housing Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize additional FY 1991 appropriations for grants to States and local governments to convert in rem properties into permanent residences for the homeless. Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to permit local governments to use recaptured refinancing funds for additional housing activities. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize section 8 assistance to prevent prepayment under State mortgage programs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that donors and distributors of charitable food donations for the homeless should not be liable for any resultant death or injury unless there was gross negligence or recklessness on their part. Directs the Secretary to: (1) consult with the Secretary of Defense and the States regarding the use of National Guard facilities as overnight shelters for the homeless; and (2) report to the Congress. Subtitle C: Homelessness Prevention for Individuals With AIDS - AIDS Housing Opportunity Act - Part I: Grants for AIDS Housing Information and Coordination Services - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible organizations and agencies for AIDS housing information and for expanding housing assistance for persons with AIDS. Provides for recipient confidentiality. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for outreach to women, children, and minorities. Part II: AIDS Short-Term Supported Housing and Services Demonstration - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants for programs to prevent homelessness among persons with AIDS and to provide them with short-term supported housing and related services. Provides for minority outreach and programs for intravenous drug users. Authorizes appropriations. Part III: Permanent and Transitional Housing and Services - Increases FY 1990 and 1991 budget authority for housing assistance to persons with AIDS under the United States Housing Act of 1937 section eight certificate (including shared housing) and moderate rehabilitation for single room occupancy programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States and metropolitan areas for community residences and services for persons with AIDS. Authorizes appropriations. Obligates funds for the territories and Indian tribes.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 June 1990
31 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the grave concern at the proposed infill and housing development at West Pier, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin; if he will give an assurance that no action will be taken in this regard, pending a programme of environmental study that could produce scientific evidence which could be considered at a public inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 June 1990
31 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the grave concern at the proposed infill and housing development at West Pier, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin; if he will give an assurance that no action will be taken in this regard, pending a programme of environmental study that could produce scientific evidence which could be considered at a public inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract for the provision of rehabilitative and therapeutic services to veterans with any appropriate source, whether or not such source is an element of the Department of Veterans Affairs or any other Federal entity. (Current law allows such contractual arrangements with private industry or other sources outside the Department.) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a three-year demonstration program for the provision of transitional housing for veterans receiving therapeutic or rehabilitative services through the Department and who are furnished therapeutic work as part of such services. Allows the Secretary to purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire residential housing for such purposes. Limits the operation of such transitional housing to no more than 50 residences. Outlines conditions for such transitional housing, including the payment of rent for resident veterans. Requires a house manager for each residence used for such housing. Authorizes the Secretary to use any suitable residential property for such housing, including property acquired through default under the veterans' home loan guaranty program. Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of property after use as transitional housing and to deposit the proceeds into the General Post Fund of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to assist nonprofit organizations in providing transitional housing for veterans who are or recently have been in a program for the treatment of substance abuse. Outlines terms, conditions, and limitations to such loan program. Authorizes the Secretary to provide loans to veterans for the purpose of avoiding foreclosure of a housing loan made under the veterans' home loan guaranty program. Conditions such assistance on the following: (1) that the dwelling securing the loan is the current residence of the veteran; (2) that the veteran is at least six months' delinquent in payments on the original guaranteed loan; (3) that the veteran has lost employment or has had a substantial reduction in income through no fault of the veteran; and (4) the Secretary determines that there is a reasonable prospect that the veteran will be able to resume payment on the original loan within six months after receiving such loan assistance. Limits to $10,000 the total amount of such loans made to any veteran. Requires a veteran to enter into an agreement to repay such a loan within a reasonable period not to exceed 15 years. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with nonprofit organizations and States or political subdivisions to sell real property acquired as the result of a loan made, insured, or guaranteed by the Secretary under the veterans' home loan guaranty program. Provides the following conditions to such agreements: (1) that the Secretary determines that such action will not adversely affect the ability of the Department to fulfill its statutory mission with respect to the veterans' home loan guaranty program; (2) that the entity to which the property is sold agrees to utilize such property solely as a shelter primarily for homeless veterans and their families, to comply with all zoning laws, and to make no use of the property that is incompatible with the area; and (3) that the Secretary determines that there is no significant likelihood of the property being sold for a price sufficient to reduce the liability of the Department or the veteran who defaulted on the loan. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to assist veterans who are participants in a compensated work therapy program, to convey to nonprofit organizations and States and political subdivisions real property acquired by the Secretary as the result of default on a loan made or guaranteed by the Secretary under the veterans' home loan program. Allows conveyance of such property only to persons who enter into an agreement with the Secretary to employ veterans who are participants in a compensated work therapy program. Terminates such agreement authority as of September 30, 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Housing and Memorial Affairs Amendments of 1990 - Makes eligible for various veterans' home loan benefits any individual not otherwise eligible for benefits who has completed a total of at least six years of service in the Selected Reserve and who was discharged honorably, placed on the retired list, or transferred to an element of the Ready Reserve other than the Selected Reserve. Defines the amount of loan fee to be paid by a veteran qualifying under the Selected Reserve eligibility provisions. Provides that, as of October 1, 1990: (1) the limitation on the number of homes purchased by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for which loan guaranty defaults occurred which may be financed by a loan made by the Secretary shall cease to have effect; and (2) the Secretary may sell any note evidencing such a loan with or without recourse if the amount received is not less than the unpaid balance of such loan. Prohibits the Secretary from selling any note evidencing a loan for which the Guaranty and Indemnity Fund is available. Extends such property management provisions through December 31, 1993. Makes permanent (current law expires on March 1, 1991) the authority of the Secretary for default procedures for loans made, guaranteed, or insured by the Department. Extends through FY 1993 (currently, FY 1990) the procedure for real estate appraisals to be followed by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out an administrative reorganization that involves closing the loan guaranty division at the Togus Veteran Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center, Togus, Maine, and transferring such functions to the Manchester Veterans Affairs Regional Office, Manchester, New Hampshire. Provides that, in the making of a claim on a manufactured home on which a loan was made or guaranteed by the Department, the holder of the loan shall have the election of submitting a claim to the Secretary based on the value of the property securing the loan as determined by the Secretary, or on the actual proceeds from the liquidation sale of the property securing the loan. Allows payments of a claim on a guaranty to be made only after the filing of an accounting with the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for flat grave markers in the section of the Florida National Cemetery in which replaced grave liners were installed before July 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary, at the request of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to certify whether an applicant for assistance under any law administered by HUD is a veteran. Provides that an applicant for a loan made, guaranteed, or insured by the Department shall not be subject to reporting requirements applicable to requests for, or receipts of, Federal contracts, grants, loans, or cooperative agreements except to the extent that such requirements are provided for in or by the Secretary pursuant to the veterans' housing loan guaranty program. Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration project, during FY 1991 and 1992 and in at least two but not more than ten regional offices, for guaranteeing loans in a manner similar to which the Secretary of HUD insures adjustable rate mortgages under applicable provisions of the National Housing Act. Requires a report from the Secretary to the Congress on the implementation of such project.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay a dislocation allowance in the case of a member of the armed forces who is: (1) relocated from a Government-furnished housing unit that is being disposed of as part of the closure and realignment of military installations under the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act; and (2) ineligible for any other dislocation allowance since such relocation is not in connection with a change in the permanent station of such member.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1990
Housing Opportunity Zones Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate Housing Opportunity Zones and approve Barrier Removal Plans for cities and urban counties for the purpose of encouraging removal of legislative and administrative barriers to the production of new and rehabilitated housing.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1990
Housing and Community Development Act of 1990 - Title I: National Housing Trust Demonstration - Subtitle A: National Housing Trust Demonstration - National Housing Trust Act - Establishes: (1) the National Housing Trust in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide assistance to first-time homebuyers; and (2) the National Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury to provide funds for such assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Trust on September 30, 1993. Subtitle B: Other Homeownership Demonstration Programs - Part 1: Homeownership Made Easier Demonstration - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to provide matching contribution certificates for homeownership downpayments and related settlement costs. Requires an eligible buyer to establish a HOME savings certificate account. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits the issuance of a matching certificate to HOME savings accounts established after September 30, 1991. Part 2: Second Mortgages for First-Time Homebuyers - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to local governments and nonprofit organizations for second mortgage assistance for first-time homebuyers. Authorizes appropriations. (Note: there is no title II of this bill.) Title III: Rental Housing Production - Authorizes the Secretary to provide repayable advances to assist eligible sponsors to acquire, rehabilitate, or construct rental housing. Establishes in the Treasury the Rental Housing Production Fund to carry out such program. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Community Housing Partnership - Community Housing Partnership Act - Subtitle A: Housing Education and Organizational Support Grants for Community Based Housing Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to provide housing education and organizational support grants to eligible cities and States and directly to nonprofit sponsors and nonprofit organizations. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Community Housing Partnership Grants - Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to cities and States and grants and loans to nonprofit sponsors to acquire, construct, and rehabilitate low-and moderate-income housing. Allocates community partnership housing grants among metropolitan and urban areas, States for non-urban use, and nonprofit sponsors. Directs the Secretary to carry out combined housing and economic development demonstration programs. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Defines specified terms for purposes of this title. Title V: Housing Assistance - Subtitle A: Programs Under the United States Housing Act of 1937 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase FY 1990 and 1991 lower income housing budget authority. Revises public housing eviction and termination procedures. Directs the Secretary to develop public housing agency (PHA) performance standards, including designation standards for troubled public housing agencies and agreements for corrective measures. Provides for project-based accounting systems. Extends authorization of appropriations for discretionary contributions for the operation of lower income housing projects. Provides as an allowance expense certain PHA litigation costs against the Federal Government. Authorizes up to 25 percent of public housing contribution contract units to be made available to lower income families other than very low-income families. Extends authorization of appropriations for public housing resident management assistance. Makes Indian mutual help ownership projects eligible for comprehensive improvement assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to waive public housing income eligibility and rent requirements for police officer or security personnel tenants. Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to obligate specified funds for public housing early childhood learning services grants. Obligates specified funds for Indian public housing early childhood learning services. Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to extend the authorization of appropriations for public housing drug elimination grants. Authorizes the use of certain of such funds for youth sports programs in public housing projects with substantial drug use problems. Directs the Secretary to establish a public housing one-step perinatal services demonstration program. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to increase the exemption from public housing and section 8 requirements. Requires lower income housing PHAs to consult with local public agencies to make units available to families involved in foster care child placement or reunification. Provides section 8 certificates for such families. Authorizes appropriations. Expands the definition of "owner" to include the owner of any dwelling unit (rather than of a newly constructed or substantially rehabilitated unit) for purposes of lower income housing assistance. Provides section 8 assistance for FY 1991 use to Norfolk, Virginia, in connection with a specified settlement agreement. Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to the Congress on section 8 failure rates. Directs the Secretary to carry out a feasibility study and report to the Congress on Indian housing authority eligibility for section 8 vouchers. Exempts the county of Santa Cruz, California, from certain housing development grant construction commencement requirements. Subtitle B: Other Housing Assistance Programs - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 with regard to the housing for the elderly and handicapped program to: (1) extend borrowing and loan authority; (2) consider AIDS an eligible handicap; (3) make elder cottage housing units and Resolution Trust Corporation properties eligible program housing; and (4) obligate specified funds for housing and services for the frail elderly. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on the elderly and handicapped housing program. Amends the Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the congregate housing services program. Sets forth a revised congregate housing services program. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to extend the authorization of appropriations for housing counseling and emergency homeownership counseling. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend authority for the multifamily housing disposition partnership. Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to limit use of the Flexible Subsidy Fund to the flexible subsidy program. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend the authorization of appropriations and authority for the Nehemiah housing opportunity grant program. Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to revise property disposition requirements for unsubsidized multifamily housing projects. Directs the Secretary to make grants for home repair services for older and disabled homeowners. Gives preference to very low-income persons and persons with the greatest social needs. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend rural housing program authorizations for: (1) insurance and guarantee authority; (2) rural housing assistance; (3) rental assistance; (4) supplemental rental assistance; (5) rental housing loans; and (6) mutual and self-help housing grants and loans. Requires the Secretary to follow State foreclosure procedures to the extent they are more beneficial to the borrower than procedures that the Secretary would otherwise follow. Requires that interests on Indian lands be disposed of only to a tribal member, the tribe, or the appropriate Indian housing authority. Authorizes the assumption of loans under the housing program for elderly persons and families in rural areas. Revises the definition of rural area. Authorizes a deferred mortgage demonstration program for persons with income below the qualifying level for rural housing loans. Directs the Secretary to provide guaranteed rural housing loans to moderate income borrowers in areas where there is an insufficient availability of mortgage financing from other sources. Gives priority to first-time homebuyers. Directs the Secretary to designate specified numbers of targeted underserved housing areas. Sets aside specified lending funds for such areas. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance for migrant farmworkers and homeless individuals. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Community Development, Mortgage Insurance and Secondary Mortgage Market, and Miscellaneous Programs - Subtitle A: Community and Neighborhood Development and Preservation - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend authorization of appropriations for the community development block grant program (CDBG). Obligates specified funds for: (1) grants to institutions of higher education; (2) grants to historically black colleges; (3) grants in Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; (4) grants to demonstrate the feasibility of developing a data base system and computer mapping tool to program and evaluate community development block grants; and (5) establishment of a national computerized data base. Increases the minimum percentage of CDBG funds targeted for low and moderate income individuals. Makes permanent a city's authority to elect not to retain its metropolitan city classification. Revises urban county classification requirements. Authorizes the provision of lump-sum payments to revolving loan funds. Requires: (1) recipients to submit prioritized lists of anticipated community development needs; and (2) the Secretary to compile such lists into a national computerized data base. Revises the allocation formula for a metropolitan city that has annexed an urban county. Revises community development loan guarantee provisions with regard to: (1) guarantee of loans issued by nonentitlement communities and territories; (2) guarantee of housing construction loans; (3) loan repayment period; (4) outstanding loan guarantee amount per issuer; (5) allocation of loan guarantees and limitation on amount guaranteed for each community; (6) debt payment assistance; (7) training and information; (8) annual reports; and (9) regulations. Exempts the provision of CDBG grantee assistance to Hawaiian Home Lands from certain program nondiscrimination provisions. Revises Indian CDBG provisions with regard to: (1) inapplicability of low and moderate income requirements; and (2) fund allocation and distribution. Authorizes the acquisition of single family properties from the Resolution Trust Corporation for urban homestead use. Extends the urban homestead authorization of appropriations and authorizes additional appropriations. Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to extend the rehabilitation loan program. Limits loan commitments to amounts provided for in appropriation Acts. Repeals nonresidential use provisions. Limits multifamily loan amounts. Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Obligates specified appropriations to: (1) expand the national neighborhood housing services network; (2) expand the loan capacity of the national neighborhood housing services secondary market operated by the Neighborhood Housing Services of America; (3) make grants to extend low-income housing use; and (4) provide matching grants and subsidies to mutual housing associations for the acquisition and rehabilitation of multifamily and single-family housing. Directs the Corporation to study and report to the Congress on neighborhood development opportunities on Indian trust lands. Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the neighborhood development demonstration program. Authorizes the use of specified urban renewal land disposition proceeds and certain other community development and public facility funds by: (1) Nanticoke, the Borough of Plymouth, and the Borough of Forty Fort, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; (2) Vallejo, California; (3) New Haven, Connecticut; (4) Lebanon, Pennsylvania; and (5) Fairmount Heights, Maryland. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the availability of housing proximate to places of employment. Subtitle B: Mortgage Insurance and Secondary Mortgage Market Programs - Amends the National Housing Act to extend and limit Federal Housing Administration (FHA) mortgage insurance program authority. Increases mortgage limits. Requires mortgagee disclosure of interest due upon mortgage prepayment. Includes the Virgin Islands among high-cost FHA insurance areas. Revises energy efficiency standards for new FHA-insured housing to include the 1989 Model Energy Code of the Council of American Builders. Increases the number of mortgages that may be insured under the home equity conversion demonstration program for elderly homeowners. Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to extend and limit Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) mortgage-backed security guarantee authority. Requires the Secretary to implement a delegated mortgage processing system. Amends the National Housing Act to provide cash incentives to forestall mortgagee "put" options. Extends the section 235 lower income homeownership program. Extends program payment, insurance, and housing stimulus authorities. Excludes amounts not actually received from the definition of income under the section 236 rental assistance program. Authorizes owner reimbursement for capital advances and operating loss expenditures. Subtitle C: Regulatory and Other Programs - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend the authorization of appropriations and program authority for the fair housing initiatives program. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to extend the authorization of appropriations for housing research and development. Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to require services of federally related mortgages to: (1) make certain applicant disclosures with regard to loan servicing assignment, sale, or transfer; and (2) provide borrowers with certain escrow account information, including notification of account shortage. Prohibits a servicer from charging a fee for escrow account statements. Amends the Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to revise manufactured home construction and safety standards. Directs the Secretary to establish a system to issue periodically interpretations of such standards and provide affected parties with notice and opportunity for comment. Reduces National Manufactured Home Advisory Council membership. Revises related provisions regarding: (1) research, testing, development, and training; (2) prohibited acts; (3) jurisdiction and venue; (4) standards noncompliance; (5) inspection criteria; (6) manufacturer notification and safety hazard correction; (7) manufacturer certification of conformity with construction and safety standards and warranty; (8) inspection fees; (9) State jurisdiction; and (10) reports to the Congress. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for the National Institute of Building Sciences. Exempts volunteer laborers or mechanics doing construction, or rehabilitation under specified housing programs from Davis-Bacon Act requirements. States that single parents and displaced homeowners shall be eligible for first-time homebuyer programs. Limits (up to ten percent annually) for three years the annual amount of assisted housing rent increases based upon increased income due to the employment of a formerly unemployed family member. Waives Indian housing matching fund requirements. (Permits an Indian housing authority to use Federal funds for matching amounts.) Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to the Congress at least annually regarding housing energy use and efficiency; (2) establish an energy efficiency standard; (3) carry out an energy efficiency demonstration program (authorizes appropriations for this); and (4) establish a five-year energy efficiency plan. Requires certain Federal entities to submit a report to the Congress regarding uniform energy efficient mortgage policy. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for a low-income housing conservation and efficiency grant program. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Disaster Relief - Provides in any fiscal year in which the President declares a major disaster for increased assistance for the following programs: (1) section 8 certificates and vouchers; (2) moderate rehabilitation; (3) community development block grants; (4) urban development action grants; and (5) rural housing. Title VIII: Homeless Prevention - Subtitle A: Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to make permanent certain provisions regarding mortgage prepayment and other low-income housing preservation measures. Requires an owner wishing to prepay the mortgage on low-income housing to so notify the tenants. Provides owner incentives to maintain such housing. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to give incentive preference to sales or transfers that provide the longest term of low-and moderate-income use and the greatest amount of tenant control over management and transfer decisions. Provides a timetable for approval of a low-income housing preservation State strategy. Provides for the preservation of low-income affordability restrictions upon assistance program conversions. Establishes in the Treasury the Low Income Housing Preservation Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to provide State and local governments with technical assistance to avoid the loss of federally assisted low-income housing and to ensure such housing's livability and affordability. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit organizations and State housing finance agencies to mediate housing affordability issues. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to establish in HUD an Office of Affordable Housing Preservation. Subtitle B: Other Homeless Prevention Programs - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to set aside specified FY 1990 and 1991 budget authority for the following homeless prevention activities: (1) section 8 property disposition; (2) section 8 loan management; (3) section 8 contract extensions; (4) section 8 contract amendments; and (5) public housing lease adjustments. Amends the Housing Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize additional FY 1991 appropriations for grants to States and local governments to convert in rem properties into permanent residences for the homeless. Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to permit local governments to use recaptured refinancing funds for additional housing activities. Subtitle C: Homelessness Prevention for Individuals With AIDS - AIDS Housing Opportunity Act - Part I: Grants for AIDS Housing Information and Coordination Services - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to eligible organizations and agencies for AIDS housing information and for expanding housing assistance for persons with AIDS. Provides for recipient confidentiality. Authorizes appropriations. Part II: AIDS Short-Term Supported Housing and Services Demonstration - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants for programs to prevent homelessness among persons with AIDS and to provide them with short-term supported housing and related services. Provides for minority outreach and a program for intravenous drug users. Authorizes appropriations. Part III: Permanent and Transitional Housing and Services - Increases FY 1990 and 1991 budget authority for housing assistance to persons with AIDS under the United States Housing Act of 1937 section 8 certificate (including shared housing) and moderate rehabilitation for single room occupancy programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States and metropolitan areas for community residences and services for persons with AIDS. Authorizes appropriations. Title IX: Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Reauthorizations - Subtitle A: Interagency Council on the Homeless - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (Act) to: (1) add the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to the Interagency Council on the Homeless; and (2) extend authority, and the authorization of appropriations, for such Council. Subtitle B: Federal Emergency Management Food and Shelter Program - Amends the Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the emergency food and shelter grant program. Subtitle C: Housing Assistance - Amends the Act to make Indian tribes eligible for assistance under title IV of such Act if they submit a biennial comprehensive homeless assistance plan to the Secretary. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the emergency shelter grants program. Permits the use of up to five percent of such grants for administrative costs. Raises the cap on essential service use. Repeals the matching requirement for the first $100,000 of grant funds. Makes Indian tribes eligible for such program. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the supportive housing demonstration program. Converts program assistance from advances to grants. Repeals the two-year limitation on permanent housing operating costs. Makes new construction an eligible program activity. Repeals site control and employment assistance as selection criteria. Makes Indian tribes eligible for such program. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the supplemental assistance for facilities to assist the homeless program. Increases budget authority for section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Makes Indian housing authorities eligible for such assistance. Establishes the shelter plus care program to provide rental housing assistance in connection with supportive services to homeless persons and their families who are mentally ill or who have drug or alcohol problems. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to provide homeless rental housing assistance. Permits a recipient to require a program tenant to live in a specific structure or geographic area in order to provide supportive services. Authorizes the Secretary to provide rental assistance for the elderly and the handicapped to very low-income individuals. Subtitle D: Health Care for the Homeless-Part 1: Categorical Grants for Primary Health Services and Substance Abuse Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for grants for primary health and substance abuse services for the homeless. Part 2: Block Grant for Community Mental Health Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for block grants for community mental health services for the homeless. Part 3: Authorization of Appropriations for Community Demonstration Projects - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for community demonstration projects for the chronically mentally ill homeless. Amends the Public Health Service Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for community demonstration projects for alcohol and drug abuse treatment for the homeless. Subtitle E: Education, Training, and Community Services Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for: (1) adult education for the homeless; (2) State activities for education of homeless children and youth; (3) exemplary grants and dissemination of information; (4) job training for the homeless; and (5) emergency community services homeless grant program. Extends the termination date for job training for the homeless provisions of such Act. Subtitle F: Veterans Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 to extend the authorization of appropriations for veterans medical programs. Subtitle G: Grants for Security Deposit Loan Fund Demonstration Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public housing agencies for demonstration projects to assist low-income families to pay rental housing security deposits. Authorizes appropriations. Title X: HOPE Programs - Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990 - Subtitle A: HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize planning and implementation grants for public and Indian housing homeownership. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: HOPE for Homeownership of Multifamily Units - Authorizes the Secretary to make planning and implementation grants for multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: HOPE for Homeownership of Single Family Homes - Authorizes the Secretary to make planning and implementation grants for single family homes. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Other HOPE Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of combining housing certificates and supportive services to assist frail elderly persons to live independently. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public housing authorities (including Indian housing authorities) to improve vacant public housing units. Authorizes appropriations.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 31 May 1990
14 Mr. Pattison asked the Minister for the Environment if he is concerned at the fact that £500,000 has been transferred from housing allocation moneys in Dublin to roads expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1990
Requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish criteria and standards and to implement a voluntary accreditation program with respect to laboratory analysis of lead in paint films, soil, and dust. Provides funding for such program through the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Directs the Administrator to conduct research and report to the Congress on methods for evaluating merging products and techniques for detecting lead in paint films and dust, including x-ray fluorescent devices, on-site chemical spot testers, and laboratory methods. Requires the Institute to establish criteria and minimum performance standards to be used in such evaluation. Requires the Administrator to conduct research on the short and long-term efficacy of lead abatement and in-place management techniques for housing based on subsequent levels of lead in dust and in occupants' blood. Requires the Administrator to conduct research on the safety, efficacy, durability, and other performance properties of products for encapsulating or stripping lead-based paint. Directs the Institute to establish performance criteria and standards for encapsulants and strippers. Directs the Administrator to conduct a long-term research study to establish the sources of lead exposure for children with blood lead levels greater than ten micrograms per deciliter. Directs the Administrator to sponsor public education and outreach efforts to increase awareness of the scope and severity of lead poisoning from household sources and the need for abatement and management actions. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Special Program of Recreational Training Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants for youth sports programs in public housing projects with substantial drug problems to qualified: (1) States; (2) local governments; (3) public housing agencies; and (4) nonprofit organizations providing youth sports services programs. Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to allocate appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1990
Prohibits Federal assistance for housing program administrative costs to States or local governments that do not limit liability for food donations to charitable organizations and food banks.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Mickey Leland Peace Dividend Housing Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Housing for Low-Income Families - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority for Housing Act of 1937 section 8 existing housing certificates. Amends such Act to revise section 8 tenant selection preferences, including annual reevaluation of family preference. Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to submit semiannual assisted housing reports to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Community Housing Partnership - Community Housing Partnership Act - Subtitle A: Housing Education and Organizational Support Grants for Community Based Housing Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to provide housing education and organizational support grants to eligible cities and States and directly to nonprofit sponsors and nonprofit organizations. Subtitle B: Community Housing Partnership Grants - Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to cities and States and grants and loans to nonprofit sponsors for acquisition, construction, and rehabilitation of low- and moderate-income housing. Allocates community partnership housing grants as follows: (1) 60 percent to metropolitan and urban areas; (2) 25 percent to States for non-urban use; and (3) 15 percent to nonprofit sponsors. Subtitle C: General Provisions - Defines specified terms for purposes of this title. Authorizes appropriations for subtitle A. Title III: Recycling of Existing Federal Assets - Recycling of Existing Assets for Cost-Effective Housing Act - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for State housing finance agencies to establish revolving funds for low- to moderate-income rental housing. Requires State matching funds. Requires: (1) States receiving such funds to establish a revolving fund; and (2) agencies to develop affirmative action programs. Sets forth requirements with regard to: (1) rental housing; and (2) eligible properties. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Public Housing Development and Modernization - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Housing Act of 1937 for: (1) public housing development; and public housing modernization. Amends such Act to revise public housing tenant selection criteria, including annual reevaluation of family preference. Title V: Grants for Preservation of Existing Housing and Security in Public Housing - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for: (1) acquisition and rehabilitation of specified multifamily housing; (2) training and technical assistance to nonprofit sponsors and representative organizations; and (3) public housing security, including Indian public housing. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Rural Housing Program Funding - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Housing Act of 1949 for the following rural housing programs: (1) homeownership loan program; (2) very low-income housing repair loan program; (3) farm labor housing loan program; (4) rural rental housing loan program; (5) farm labor housing grant program; (6) housing preservation grant program; and (7) rental assistance payments program. Extends program authority for: (1) rental housing loans; and (2) rural area classification. Title VII: Supportive Services - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to coordinate supportive services in federally assisted housing, including such services as: (1) child care; (2) health monitoring; (3) education and job training; and (4) drug and alcohol counseling. Title VIII: Single Room Occupancy Housing for Homeless Families and Individuals - Increases FY 1991 through 1995 budget authority under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act for section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Amends such Act to extend single room occupancy contract authority. Title IX: Miscellaneous - Directs the Comptroller General to audit the Secretary at least annually with respect to activities under this Act, and report to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Urban Homesteading and Bulk Sales Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to acquire single family properties in bulk from the Resolution Trust Corporation for transfer to State and local governmental and public agencies for the urban homesteading program. Prescribes guidelines for such program. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to prescribe guidelines for urban homesteading acquisition by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1990
Indian Housing Improvement Act of 1990 - Title I: Indian Public Housing - Increases budget authority for Indian public housing grants under the United States Housing Act of 1937. Reserves specified community development block grant amounts for an Indian public housing child care demonstration program. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make Indian self-help housing eligible for comprehensive improvement assistance. Title II: Section 8 Voucher Program Eligibility for Indian Housing Authorities - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make Indian housing authorities eligible for the section 8 housing voucher program. Title III: Inclusion of Indian Tribes Under McKinney Homeless Assistance Act Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to add the National Congress of American Indians to the Emergency Food and Shelter Program National Board. Makes Indian tribes eligible for: (1) comprehensive homeless assistance; (2) emergency shelter grants; (3) the supportive housing demonstration program; (4) section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings; and (5) grants for education for homeless children and youth. Amends the Public Health Service Act to make Indian tribes eligible for: (1) community mental health services block grants; and (2) community mental health services demonstration projects for chronically ill homeless individuals. Title IV: Miscellaneous Indian Housing Program Provisions - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture, in the event of a Farmers Home Administration loan default on Indian public land, to: (1) pursue liquidation only after offering to transfer the account to an eligible tribal member, the tribe, or the Indian housing authority; and (2) dispose of the property only to one of such entities. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study of neighborhood development opportunities on Indian trust lands. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to waive Indian housing program matching fund requirements; and (2) the related use of Federal funds for matching amounts.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Housing Grant Action Program Act of 1990 - States that the purpose of this Act is to further the development of a national housing policy through the consolidation of a number of housing assistance programs into a consistent system of Federal aid. Authorizes appropriations for grants under this Act. Sets forth eligible grant activities, including: (1) acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of rental and ownership units; (2) provision of loans, interest subsidies, and other financial assistance; (3) rental rehabilitation grants; (4) assistance to nonprofit organizations for homeownership loans; (5) assistance for elderly and handicapped families; and (6) assistance for Indian housing. Requires a grantee to: (1) prepare a statement of housing objectives and fund use which shall provide for public participation; (2) provide the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development with a certification of compliance; (3) develop a residential antidisplacement and relocation plan; and (4) provide the Secretary with a performance and evaluation report. Authorizes the Secretary to release funds to recipients of assistance under this Act who assume the responsibilities for environmental actions pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and other provisions of law specified by the Secretary. Allocates 70 percent of program funds to cities and urban counties and 30 percent to States. Sets forth an allocation formula. Obligates specified funds for Indian housing grants. Administers such grants through the Department's Office of Indian and Alaska Native Programs. Sets forth grantee "hold-harmless" provisions. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) nondiscrimination; (2) labor standards; (3) noncompliance remedies; (4) reports to the Congress; and (5) program transitions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Congregate Housing Services Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture to provide matching grants to States, units of local government, Indian tribes, and local nonprofit housing sponsors to carry out congregate services (including meal service) programs for frail older adults and disabled persons living in (or eligible to live in) certain federally assisted housing. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Mortgage Servicing Transfer Disclosure Act of 1990 - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to prescribe mortgage servicing disclosure requirements for each person making a federally related mortgage loan to a consumer (including the identity of the person to whom the mortgage servicing contract is transferred). Sets forth guidelines for the treatment of consumer loan payments during the period in which the mortgage loan servicing contract is being transferred. Sets forth liability guidelines for violations of this Act. Authorizes consumer class action suits. Sets forth guidelines for annual notification to the consumer by the mortgage servicer of the consumer's escrow account status, including itemized expenses and anticipated charges.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the transitional rules for bond-financed buildings in progress on the termination date of the low-income housing credit.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1990
Requires that each State receive a specified minimum amount of assistance from certain Department of Housing and Urban Development housing programs.
United States · United States Senate · 20 April 1990
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Veterans' Housing Amendments Act of 1990 - Revises the loan fee to be paid by veterans for housing loans guaranteed, insured, or made by the Department of Veterans Affairs to make such fee: (1) 1.75 percent of the total loan amount; or (2) one percent of the total loan amount in the case of loans for veterans for housing in rural areas, loans made to acquire housing by default, or loans made to refinance a housing loan. Deletes provisions allowing the sale of notes evidencing such loans with or without recourse and limiting the amount of a loan made to finance the purchase of real property from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Requires a service-connected disability rated at 30 percent or more before the loan fees required to be collected from veterans for housing loans will be waived. Requires loan fees collected for any housing loan closed between January 1, 1990, and September 30, 1990, to be credited to the Guaranty and Indemnity Fund. Terminates a reporting requirement with respect to loans made to purchase manufactured homes and lots. Prohibits the Secretary from guaranteeing such a loan unless it was closed before October 1, 1990, or made pursuant to a guaranty commitment issued by the Secretary before such date. States that such restriction shall not apply to a loan to refinance an existing loan guaranteed, insured, or made by the Department. Deletes a provision prohibiting payment of a claim under a loan guaranty for the purchase of manufactured homes and lots before liquidation of the security for the loan and the filing of an accounting with the Secretary. Provides, in lieu, that the holder of such a loan may submit a claim to the Secretary based upon: (1) the value of the property securing the loan as determined by the Secretary; or (2) the actual proceeds from the liquidation sale of the property securing the loan. Extends to October 1, 1991, the time period authorized for lenders to review appraisal reports in connection with homes for which the Department is guaranteeing loans. Repeals provisions which prohibit the Department from guaranteeing loans for newly constructed residences in areas not served by public or community water and sewage systems. Requires any veteran desiring a housing debt waiver to make such request within 180 days after the notification of such indebtedness, or by September 30, 1992, if notice was provided before October 1, 1990. Makes permanent the foreclosure information and counseling requirements currently provided for veterans foreclosing on a housing loan guaranteed by the Department (currently expires on March 1, 1991). Makes permanent the claim payment and property acquisition upon default provisions currently set to expire on October 1, 1991. Requires the Department, in determining the "net value" of a property, to take into account losses sustained on resale of properties in determining whether or not to acquire a foreclosed property. Makes permanent the vendee loan and property management provisions currently set to expire on December 31, 1990. Repeals the authority for a Direct Loan Revolving Fund (DLRF). Provides that the Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund (LGRF) shall pay for direct loan operations. Transfers present and future payments of the DLRF to the LGRF. Provides that the Secretary shall have no obligation to repay amounts advanced by the Treasury to the DLRF. Permits the Department to collect all debts arising out of the housing loan program by offsetting the debtor's Federal tax refund or Federal salary. Directs the Secretary, at the request of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to issue certificates of veteran status to persons seeking benefits under the National Housing Act or other programs administered by such Agency. Provides that persons applying for Department guaranteed, made, or insured housing loans will not become subject to provisions requiring persons seeking loans exceeding $150,000, which are guaranteed, made, or insured by a Federal agency to disclose their lobbying activities. Requires veterans (other than those exempted due to disability or other hardship) who obtain loans guaranteed by the Department for the purchase, construction, alteration, or repair of a property to make a downpayment equal to four percent of the amount by which the actual costs for such purchase, construction, repair, or alteration exceed $25,000.
United States · United States Senate · 19 April 1990
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Affordable Housing for Young Americans Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for first-time home purchases by taxpayers, their children, or their grandchildren.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Amends the Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978 to authorize FY 1991 appropriations for congregate housing services.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to extend the assistance program for homeowners adversely affected by base closures to employees of a Defense Department nonappropriated fund instrumentality.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1990
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to reserve a specified amount of community development block grant funds for Indian tribes.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990 - Title I: HOPE Grants - Subtitle A: HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize planning and implementation matching grants for public and Indian housing homeownership. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: HOPE for HUD Multifamily Homeownership - Authorizes technical assistance, planning, and implementation matching grants for multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: HOPE for Homeownership through Nonprofit Organizations - Authorizes implementation matching grants to private nonprofit organizations to carry out homeownership programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Preservation of Low-Income Housing and Resident Homeownership - Retitles title II of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 as the "Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990." Revises mortgage prepayment provisions. Authorizes approval of resident homeownership plans. Sets forth related conditions. Title III: Other HOPE Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to establish the shelter plus care program to provide specified rental assistance in connection with related support services to homeless persons who are seriously mentally ill or who have chronic alcohol or drug problems. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of combining housing vouchers and support services to assist frail elderly persons to continue to live independently. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish the Operation Bootstrap program to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate certificate and voucher program assistance with public and private resources to enable eligible families to achieve economic independence. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Housing Opportunity Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate Housing Opportunity Zones and approve Barrier-Removal Plans for cities and urban counties in order to remove legislative and administrative barriers to new and rehabilitated housing production.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Public Housing Management Improvement Act of 1990 - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs to: (1) develop and publish in the Federal Register standards for assessing the management performance of public housing agencies; and (2) establish procedures for designating troubled public housing agencies and high performing housing agencies. Prescribes funding and management guidelines appropriated to each type, including authority to replace the management of an agency in substantial default of its covenants, and court appointment of a receiver for it. Requires public housing agencies to establish project-based accounting systems and to publish an annual financial operations statement, including the financial status of each individual housing project. Eliminates operating subsidies for public housing units that have been continuously vacant for one year. Authorizes the Secretary: (1) to waive the single audit requirement for public housing agencies; and (2) to devise new auditing standards and procedures which more accurately reflect Federal expenditures and the financial status of public housing agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Youthbuild Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide grants for Youthbuild projects which shall employ economically and educationally disadvantaged youth to help construct or rehabilitate rental and transitional housing for homeless persons and low-income families. Authorizes appropriations.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 March 1990
Question put: "That the motion, as amended be agreed to."
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 March 1990
Amendment put.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1990
Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990 - Title I: HOPE Grants - Subtitle A: HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize planning and implementation matching grants for public and Indian housing homeownership. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: HOPE for HUD Multifamily Homeownership - Authorizes technical assistance, planning, and implementation matching grants for multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: HOPE for Homeownership through Nonprofit Organizations - Authorizes implementation matching grants to private nonprofit organizations to carry out homeownership programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Preservation of Low-Income Housing and Resident Homeownership - Retitles title II of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 as the "Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990." Revises mortgage prepayment provisions. Authorizes approval of resident homeownership plans. Sets forth related conditions. Title III: Other HOPE Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to establish the shelter plus care program to provide specified rental assistance in connection with related support services to homeless persons who are seriously mentally ill or who have chronic alcohol or drug problems. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of combining housing vouchers and support services to assist frail elderly persons to continue to live independently. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish the Operation Bootstrap program to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate certificate and voucher program assistance with public and private resources to enable eligible families to achieve economic independence. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Housing Opportunity Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate Housing Opportunity Zones and approve Barrier-Removal Plans for cities and urban counties in order to remove legislative and administrative barriers to new and rehabilitated housing production.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1990
Affordable Housing and First Home Buyer Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: First Home Ownership Accounts - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit a personal deduction for specified contributions to a first home ownership account. Treats such account as an individual retirement account upon a first home purchase. Title II: Repeal of Taxation of Gain on Sale of Principal Residence - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the taxation of gain on the sale of a principal residence. Title III: Mortgage Bonds and Credit Certificates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 1993 the issue period for qualified mortgage bonds. Title IV: Mortgage Insurance - Amends the National Housing Act with regard to adjustable rate single family mortgages to: (1) increase maximum interest adjustments; and (2) repeal the aggregate fiscal year limit on such insured mortgages and loans. Authorizes a first-time homebuyer downpayment insurance demonstration program. Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to provide a secondary market for downpayment loans. Amends the National Housing Act to authorize insurance for downpayment loans. Amends the National Housing Act to establish minimum Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund reserves. Title V: Study Regarding Shared Equity Reserves - Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on shared equity mortgages for first-time homebuyers. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990
Condemns the recent violence against unarmed civilians in Nimba County, Liberia. Calls upon all parties to the conflict to comply with provisions of the Geneva Convention which establish the right of noncombatants to humane treatment. Urges the President to: (1) convey to the Government of Liberia U.S. concerns about human rights abuses in Liberia since 1980; (2) urge such Government to quickly resolve the conflict in a manner which permits Liberian refugees to return to their homes; (3) support efforts to meet humanitarian needs of such refugees in neighboring countries; (4) bar U.S. military advisors from accompanying Liberian troops in fighting the insurgency in Nimba County; and (5) consider recent events in such County in making the assessment related to human rights required under the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990. Sets forth conditions for resumption of military assistance to Liberia in the event that the suspension of foreign assistance is no longer required under provisions restricting assistance to countries in default on foreign assistance loans. Calls on the Liberian Government to honor its commitment to hold scheduled elections in 1991 and to ensure a free and fair election process.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Rural Rental Housing Affordability Act of 1990 - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to use a portion of the monthly reserve account to increase Farmers Home Administration rental housing subsidies.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Title I: Housing and Urban Development - Makes emergency supplemental FY 1990 appropriations for the emergency shelter grants program under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. Title II: Health and Human Services - Makes emergency supplemental FY 1990 appropriations for: (1) health services for the homeless under the Public Health Service Act; and (2) community mental health services for the homeless under the Public Health Service Act, as authorized in the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 March 1990
1 Mr. Ferris asked the Minister for Health if he has consulted with the Minister for the Environment regarding the need for specially designed community based sheltered housing and other forms of special needs housing, including group homes, to cater for the elderly persons, handicapped persons and other socially vulnerable categories who have difficulty coping on their own but do not need full institutional care or to occupy long stay institutional places; and the action he will take to provide assistance towards on-site non-institutional care services in special needs housing where this is necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Establishes the Modular Construction Commission to carry out, through the National Evaluation Service of the Council of American Building Officials, a modular construction program. Requires the program to provide for a system of modular codes and standards for each State and for inspection agencies to monitor compliance assurance programs of manufacturers of modular construction.
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 1990
2 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for the Environment if his attention has been drawn to a recent publication Housing Moving into Crisis published by the National Campaign for the Homeless and the Combat Poverty Agency; if he agrees with its analysis and conclusions; if in light of the massive reduction in local authority house completions on the one hand and increasing numbers on the housing lists on the other, he accepts that there is cause for real concern; the steps he proposes to take and-or initiate to respond to the housing problems of local authorities and homeless persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Amends the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 to permit parties engaged in collective bargaining to bargain over the establishment and administration of trust funds providing financial assistance for employee housing.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 to raise the ceiling on the amount of commitments to guarantee loans for housing and other credit guaranty programs. Earmarks a specified amount of such guaranty funds for housing and infrastructure for Soviet refugees in Israel. Exempts such funds from: (1) requirements under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to guaranties for housing projects in Israel; and (2) guarantee fees provided for in such Act. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to raise the ceiling on the amount available for worldwide housing guaranties under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1990
Home Repairs for Older and Disabled Homeowners Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to locally based nonprofit organizations, local governments, and Indian tribes to provide home repair services for low-income older homeowners and disabled homeowners. Authorizes appropriations. Limits grants to two-year terms. Requires the Secretary to develop and distribute a program manual.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1990
Reverse Mortgage Insurance for Older Americans Act of 1990 - Amends the National Housing Act with regard to the elderly homeowner equity conversion mortgage program to: (1) increase the total number of insured mortgages; (2) set forth various reverse mortgage options; (3) permit the mortgagor to convert payment methods during the term of the mortgage; (4) limit mortgagor liability; and (5) require certain disclosures by the mortgagee regarding mortgagor liability and total mortgage cost.