Housing and Community Development Act of 1992

Summary

Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 - Title I: Housing Assistance - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to: (1) low-income housing authorization; (2) extension of ceiling rents; (3) exclusions from income under Indian housing programs; (4) public and section 8 housing tenant preference rules; and (5) family self-sufficiency program. Subtitle B: Public and Indian Housing - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937, the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983, the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 with respect to: (1) major reconstruction of obsolete projects; (2) public housing tenant preferences, operating subsidies, resident management, homeownership, family investment centers, and early childhood development services; (3) vacancy reduction; (4) Indian housing childhood development services; (5) exemption of Indian housing program from any new construction limitation; (6) public housing one-stop perinatal services demonstration; (7) the National Commission on Distressed Public Housing; (8) the National Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing; and (9) the sale of certain scattered-site housing. Subtitle C: Section 8 Assistance - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise the section 8 rental assistance program. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to issue regulations to implement certain amendments to the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to: (1) the project-based certificate program; and (2) income eligibility for new construction units. Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to provide tenant-based assistance to very low-income families with children who reside in public housing to move out of areas of high concentrations of persons living in poverty to areas with low concentrations of such persons. Subtitle D: Other Programs - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and the Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990 with respect to elimination of drug abuse in public housing. Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 with respect to the flexible subsidy program. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 with respect to housing counseling. Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 with respect to the use of funds recaptured from refinancing State and local finance projects. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to authorize the Secretary to make planning and implementation grants for the development of Youthbuild education and job training programs for youth in rental housing projects occupied by low- and very low-income families, especially school drop-outs. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Homeownership Programs - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 and the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to: (1) HOPE homeownership programs; (2) the National Homeownership Trust demonstration; (3) Nehemiah housing opportunity grants; and (4) assistance under section 8 for homeownership. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee up to 100 percent of housing construction, acquisition, or rehabilitation loans made to an Indian family or Indian housing authority. Title II: Home Investment Partnerships - Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to the home investment partnerships program to: (1) extend the authorization of appropriations; (2) eliminate certain restrictions on new construction; (3) allow the use of tenant-based rental assistance amounts for security deposits; (4) revise per unit cost limits; (5) make payment of certain administrative costs an eligible use of investment funds; (6) qualify as affordable rental housing certain housing not currently assisted by the low-income housing tax credit; (7) require repayment of certain housing assistance to the participating jurisdiction from the proceeds of any resale of affordable homeownership housing; and (8) revise matching requirements. Provides for: (1) assistance to insular areas; (2) establishment of community housing development organizations; (3) housing education and organizational support for community land trusts; and (4) eligibility as a first-time homebuyer of an owner of a manufactured home. Directs the Secretary to make available a model program to use cost-saving innovative building technologies and construction techniques for purposes of providing homeownership and rental opportunities. Requires State and local housing strategies to follow residential displacement and relocation assistance plans. Title III: Preservation of Low-income Housing - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend the authorization of appropriations. Revises provisions with respect to: (1) submission of information to tenants; (2) approval of a plan for action; (3) receipt of incentives to extend low-income use; (4) unit rent criteria for approval of a plan of action; (5) the resident homeownership program; (6) incentives under the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act; (7) insurance for second mortgage financing; and (8) supplemental loans. Eliminates the windfall profits test. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on housing projects assisted under flexible subsidy program. Title IV: Multifamily Housing Planning and Investment Strategies - Requires the owner of each covered multifamily housing property to submit to the Secretary a comprehensive needs assessment of the property, which shall first be reviewed for comment by property residents and, if the property is financed or assisted it, a State housing finance agency. Title V: Mortgage Insurance and Secondary Mortgage Market - Subtitle A: FHA Mortgage Insurance Programs - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to FHA mortgage insurance programs to revise: (1) limitations on the Secretary's insurance authority; (2) (and postpone) the termination of the Federal Housing Administration Advisory Board; (3) the maximum mortgage amount; (4) the maximum principal obligation of mortgages for veterans; (5) authority to decrease insurance premium charges; (6) the statute of limitations for distributive shares; (7) mortgage limits for multifamily projects; (8) provisions for insurance of loans for operating losses of multifamily projects; (9) expedited procedures for insurance for acquisition of Resolution Trust Corporation property; and (10) manufactured home loan insurance limits. Repeals the warranty requirement. Prohibits the Secretary from limiting the amount of closing costs financed in a mortgage. Directs the Secretary to establish an energy efficient mortgage pilot program in five States, which shall promote the purchase of new and existing energy efficient residential buildings and the installation of cost-effective improvements in existing residential buildings. Subtitle B: Secondary Mortgage Market Programs - Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to revise the limitation on Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) guarantees of mortgage-backed securities. Title VI: Housing for Elderly Persons, Handicapped Persons, and Persons With Disabilities - Subtitle A: In General - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 and the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to: (1) supportive housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities; (2) the congregate housing services program; (3) the HOPE for elderly independence program; and (4) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS. Subtitle B: Authority to Provide Designated Public Housing - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise a public housing agency's basic authority to provide designated public housing. Requires a public housing agency to set-aside a portion of section 8 assistance for handicapped and disabled families. Directs the Secretary to reserve funds for the development and reconstruction of housing for handicapped and disabled families. Subtitle C: Standards and Obligations of Residency and Service Coordination in Federally Assisted Housing - Directs the Secretary to require owners of federally assisted housing, as a condition of receiving housing assistance, to comply with this subtitle. Directs the Secretary to establish a task force to review HUD policy and recommend criteria for occupancy in federally assisted housing. Requires the Secretary, subsequently, to issue regulations to establish such criteria, and owners to accept only occupants who meet them. Directs the Secretary to require owners of federally assisted housing projects to provide for one or more individuals ("service coordinators") to coordinate supportive services for older or disabled residents. Subtitle D: Applicability - Sets forth the effective date of these subtitles. Title VII: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend: (1) the authorization of appropriations and loan insurance and guarantee authority of the rural housing program; (2) the rural housing voucher demonstration program; (3) the rental housing loan program; and (4) authority for mutual and self-help housing grants and loans. Revises eligibility requirements for loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms to authorize such loans for homes on leased land owned by community land trusts. Revises requirements for: (1) maximum income of borrowers under guaranteed loans; (2) designation of underserved areas and reservation of assistance; (3) rental housing loans; and (4) housing preservation grants for replacement of housing. Designates Plainview, Texas, a rural area under the rural housing program. Title VIII: Community Development - Subtitle A: Community Development Block Grants - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend the authorization of appropriations for community development block grants, special purpose grants, and the authority for loan guarantees. Revises requirements with respect to: (1) units of general local government; (2) grants to nonentitlement areas; (3) State community development plans and reports; and (4) eligible activities. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to assistance for colonias. Subtitle B: Other Community Development Programs - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to assist State and local governments to develop computerized databases of community development needs, including grants for installation and use of integrated database systems and computer mapping tools. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the neighborhood development demonstration program. Title IX: Regulatory and Miscellaneous Programs - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the HUD research and development program. Makes technical amendments to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and the National Housing Act with respect to the National Institute of Building Sciences. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the fair housing initiatives program. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act with respect to: (1) use of negotiated rulemaking procedures; and (2) extended authorization of HUD program monitoring and evaluation activities. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the National Commission on Manufactured Housing. Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 with respect to its applicability to second mortgages and refinancings. Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 with respect to mortgage loans insured through private mortgage insurance. Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 with respect to credit given majority-owned financial institutions for cooperative ventures with nonminority-owned and nonwomen-owned financial institutions and low-income credit unions. Declares that specified certification requirements of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 shall not apply to assistance for multifamily projects during a certain period of time. Directs the Secretary to reestablish the Solar Bank. Amends the Housing Act of 1959, as amended by the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act, with respect to labor wage rates under construction programs for supportive housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to energy efficient mortgages. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to direct the Secretary to require public housing agencies and Indian housing authorities, and their contractors and subcontractors, to make their best efforts (including contract awards) to give low- and very low-income persons the training and employment opportunities generated by Federal housing and community development assistance. Requires a study and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of this program. Authorizes appropriations to the National American Indian Housing Council for training and assistance to Indian housing authorities. Title X: Housing Programs Under Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act - Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the: (1) emergency shelter grants program; (2) supportive housing demonstration program; (3) supplemental assistance for facilities to assist the homeless; (4) shelter plus care program; and (5) section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Requires such programs to: (1) use, to the maximum extent practicable, homeless individuals and families in constructing or rehabilitating housing assisted under them and in providing specified services; and (2) require each assistance recipient to provide for the participation of at least one homeless or former homeless individual on its board of directors or equivalent policy making entity, or otherwise provide for the consultation and participation of such individual in policy- and decision-making. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance for a safe havens for homeless individuals demonstration program, especially for eligible persons unable to participate in mental health treatment programs or to receive other supportive services. Prohibits the Secretary from making available for lease any single family properties once acquired for use by the homeless before listing and making them generally available for sale for at least 30 days. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make eligible properties available for acquisition by qualified applicants for use only to provide rural housing for homeless individuals and families. Requires employment of the homeless in construction and rehabilitation of such properties, as well as participation in policy- and decision-making. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a rural homelessness program of grants to eligible organizations to pay for the Federal share (75 percent) of the cost of direct emergency assistance to the homeless, as well as homelessness prevention assistance and assistance in finding permanent housing and supportive services. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to require evaluations of programs by the homeless. Specifies restrictions on the allocation formula for revised homeless housing assistance. Directs the Secretary of HUD to consult with the chief executive officers of the States and the Department of Defense and report to the Congress on the availability of National Guard facilities as overnight shelters for homeless individuals.

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