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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Sep 12, 2000
Housing Needs Act of 2000 - Title I: Production of New Housing for Low and Very Low-Income Families - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make funds available to State housing finance agencies for low-income housing rehabilitation and development. Requires State submission of an affordable housing expansion plan.Directs the Secretary to carry out a multifamily risk-sharing mortgage insurance program.Authorizes appropriations.Title II: Section 8 Voucher Success Demonstration - Directs the Secretary to establish a voucher success demonstration to increase the section 8 voucher payment standard in order to assist low-and very low-income families in tight rental markets.Title III: Preservation of Low-Income Housing and Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the United States Housing Act to increase amounts available for section 8 project-based assistance.Authorizes the Secretary to contract for project-based assistance for Department of Housing and Urban Development owned or held multifamily properties that are no longer feasible for continued section 8 rental assistance.Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent certain multifamily mortgage credit demonstrations.
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Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO] · R–MO
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8417-8418)
Introduced in Senate
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