Public Housing Reform and Responsibility Act of 1997

Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Public Housing Title II: Section 8 Rental Assistance Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions Public Housing Reform and Responsibility Act of 1997 - Title I: Public Housing - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 (Act) with respect to public housing agency (PHA) authority concerning: (1) ceiling and minimum rents; (2) police officer tenant eligibility; and (3) market value rental flexibility and encouragement of tenant self-sufficiency. Disallows (temporarily) from public housing rent determinations income earned from a family self-sufficiency or job training program. (Sec. 106) Requires PHAs to submit annual and five-year plans to the Secretary (Secretary) of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). (Sec. 107) Revises contract provisions and requirements. Repeals public housing income and site (Federal) preferences. (Sec. 108) Provides with regard to a troubled PHA that: (1) the Secretary may take possession of a troubled PHA, including any of its projects or functions, and may give such PHA a one-year period to demonstrate satisfactory improvement; and (2) an appointed receiver may abrogate certain contract provisions or dispose of PHA assets or create new PHAs. (Sec. 109) Consolidates public housing assistance (other than section 8 assistance) into a Capital Fund and an Operating Fund. Directs the Secretary to establish assistance formulae. Obligates emergency reserve funding. (Sec. 110) Requires tenants (other than the elderly, disabled, full-time workers, or students) to perform eight hours of monthly community volunteer work. (Sec. 111) Permits PHAs to form consortia and joint ventures and operate subsidiaries. Eliminates: (1) certain energy conservation requirements; and (2) modernization fund authority. (Sec. 113) Revises assisted housing income eligibility provisions. (Sec. 114) Revises public housing demolition and disposition provisions. Eliminates the one-for-one replacement requirement. Provides, in a proposed disposition, for resident organization purchase opportunity. Stipulates that such provisions do not apply to a disposition in accordance with a home ownership program. (Sec. 115) Eliminates family investment center provisions. Authorizes PHAs to convert public housing projects to tenant-based (voucher) systems. Requires PHAs to do a project conversion assessment (market analysis and community impact). (Sec. 116) Eliminates the family self-sufficiency program. Authorizes PHAs to sell low-income units to residents or conduit organizations. Provides rental and relocation assistance for nonpurchasing tenants, including PHA assistance for tenant home ownership. (Sec. 118) Authorizes PHAs to own or operate mixed-finance and mixed-ownership projects. (Sec. 119) Provides for identification and conversion of distressed public housing to tenant-based assistance. (Sec. 120) Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) permit PHAs to mortgage or grant security interests in their projects; and (2) make grants to PHAs or resident management entities to promote tenant self-sufficiency. (Obligates related funds for resident management entities.) (Sec. 122) Prohibits HUD funds to be used to indemnify government contractors against costs associated with judgments of intellectual property rights infringement. (Sec. 123) Authorizes pet ownership in federally assisted rental housing. Title II: Section 8 Rental Assistance - Amends the Act to merge the section 8 voucher and certificate programs into a single voucher program. Sets forth program provisions. (Sec. 202) Amends certain housing Acts to repeal specified preference and other provisions and make technical corrections. (Sec. 205) Includes cooperatives within the assisted housing home ownership option. Revises monthly assistance determination provisions. (Sec. 206) Authorizes a public housing owner to admit law enforcement and security personnel not otherwise eligible for tenancy. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Act to remove Rockland County, New York, from the metropolitan statistical area in which it is located for purposes of assisted housing income-related determinations. (Sec. 305) Requires the Secretary to review specified housing security contracts with respect to hiring and award compliance.

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• Referred in House (text)

  Referred in House · EN · 21 October 1998

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• Referred in House (PDF)

  Referred in House · EN · 21 October 1998

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• Engrossed in Senate (text)

  Engrossed in Senate · EN · 26 September 1997

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• Engrossed in Senate (PDF)

  Engrossed in Senate · EN · 26 September 1997

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 26 September 1997

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• Reported to Senate (text)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 23 May 1997

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• Reported to Senate (PDF)

  Reported to Senate · EN · 23 May 1997

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 23 May 1997

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 18 March 1997

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• Introduced in Senate (PDF)

  Introduced in Senate · EN · 18 March 1997

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 18 March 1997

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