Sec. 40102. Sense of Congress
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The Congress— supports lifting the spending caps required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and robustly funding programs to increase access to affordable housing and address homelessness at the Department of Housing and Urban Development
(HUD)and other Federal agencies; opposes any cuts to Federal investments in affordable housing programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and other Federal agencies; supports increased funding to the Public Housing Capital Fund to address the backlog of capital repairs for public housing; supports expanded funding for the National Housing Trust Fund to boost the supply of affordable housing available to extremely low-income families; supports efforts to preserve and rehabilitate existing housing to maintain and increase the available stock of affordable housing and proposals by local entities to prevent any net loss of overall affordable housing units receiving Federal subsidies; supports strengthened Federal fair housing laws; affirms that renters may not be barred from federally assisted housing solely on the basis of a criminal record; supports expansion of renters’ rights, including the right of tenants to organize tenant associations; and affirms that housing is a basic human right.