Sec. 4. Housing choice vouchers
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall provide that— during the COVID-19 emergency period, a public housing agency may not terminate the availability to an eligible household of a housing choice voucher under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f(o) ) for failure to enter into a lease for an assisted dwelling unit; in the case of any eligible household on whose behalf such a housing choice voucher has been made available, if as of the termination of the COVID-19 emergency period such availability has not terminated (including by reason of paragraph
(1)of this subsection) and such voucher has not been used to enter into a lease for an assisted dwelling unit, the public housing agency making such voucher available may not terminate such availability until the expiration of the 60-day period beginning upon the termination of the COVID-19 emergency period; and during the COVID-19 emergency period, clause
(i)of section 8(o)(8)(A) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(8)(A)(i) ; relating to initial inspection of dwelling units) shall not apply, except that in any case in which an inspection of a dwelling unit for which a housing assistance payment is established is not conducted before an assistance payment is made for such dwelling unit— such clause shall be applied by substituting the expiration of the 90-day period beginning on the termination of the COVID-19 emergency period (as such term is defined in section 2 of the for _______ Act of 2020 ) any assistance payment is made ; and the public housing agency shall inform the tenant household and the owner of such dwelling unit of the inspection requirement applicable to such dwelling unit pursuant to subparagraph (A). Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide that the same restrictions and requirements applicable under subsection
(a)of this section to voucher assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall apply with respect to voucher assistance under section 542 of the Housing Act of 1949 ( 42 U.S.C. 1490r ). In applying such restrictions and requirements, the Secretary may take into consideration and provide for any differences between such programs while ensuring that the program under such section 542 is carried out in accordance with the purposes of such restrictions and requirements.
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