Sec. 6. Publicly available database for fair housing complaints

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The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall develop, and update on a quarterly basis, a database that is publicly available on a website of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which includes, subject to applicable confidentiality constraints, the following: The total number of complaints alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act that were received by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, disaggregated with respect to both number and percentage, by each protected class established under such Act.

The number and percentage of the total number of complaints that allege violations of the Violence Against Women Act. The number and percentage of the total number of complaints referred to in paragraphs

(1)and

(2)that— were made by persons experiencing homelessness; were made by tenants; and were made by persons who have applied for covered housing, disaggregated by each specific type of covered housing for which such person applied. For each State, the number and percentage of the total number of complaints referred to in paragraphs

(1)and

(2)that were made by residents of such State. The number and percentage of the total number complaints referred to in paragraphs

(1)and

(2)that alleged that the complainant was retaliated against after reporting the alleged violation and, of such number, the number and percentage that alleged that the complainant was evicted for any retaliatory reason. The status of the complaints referred to in paragraphs

(1)and (2), including a detailed description of the resolutions and remedies provided and, for complaints that were administratively closed, of the reasons for such closures. The number and percentage of the total number of complaints referred to in paragraph

(1)that were received by— State agencies assisted under the Fair Housing Assistance Program authorized under section 810 of the Fair Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 3610 ); and local agencies assisted under the Fair Housing Initiatives Program authorized under section 817 of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 3616 ). The number and percentage of the total number of complaints referred to in paragraph

(1)that ended in a reasonable cause charge by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or were referred to the Attorney General by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The number and percentage of the total number of complaints referred to in paragraph

(1)received by the Attorney General that were not referred to the Attorney General by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. In this section, the term covered housing — with respect to a complaint alleging a violation of the Fair Housing Act, means— housing assisted under the program for supportive housing for the elderly under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 ( 12 U.S.C. 1701q ), including the direct loans program under such section 202 as in effect before the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( Public Law 101–625 ; November 28, 1990); housing assisted under the program for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 8013 ); housing assisted under the program for housing opportunities for people with AIDS/HIV under subtitle D of title VIII of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq. ); housing assisted under any of the programs under subtitles B through D of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 11371 et seq. ); housing assisted under the HOME Investments Partnerships program under subtitle A of title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 12741 et seq. ); housing assisted under the rent supplement program under section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 ( 12 U.S.C. 1701s ); housing financed by a loan or mortgage that is insured under section 203 of the National Housing Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1709 ); housing financed by a loan or mortgage that is— secured by a first or subordinate lien on a residential real property, including any such secured loan, the proceeds of which are used to prepay or pay off an existing loan secured by the same property; and purchased or securitized by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation or the Federal National Mortgage Association; housing insured, assisted, or held by the Secretary or a State or State agency under the multifamily rental assistance program under section 236 of the National Housing Act ( 12 U.S.C. 1715z–1 ); public housing assisted under title I of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq. ); a dwelling unit assisted under the Housing Choice Voucher program for rental assistance under section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f(o) ); housing assisted with project-based rental assistance provided under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f ); housing assisted with funds from the Housing Trust Fund as established under section 1338 of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 ( 12 U.S.C. 4568 ); housing assisted under any of the rural housing assistance programs under section 514, 515, 516, 533, 538, or 542 of the Housing Act of 1949 ( 42 U.S.C. 1484 , 1485, 1486, 1490m, 1490p–2, 1490r); any housing project for which equity is provided through any low-income housing tax credit pursuant to section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 ( 26 U.S.C. 42 ); housing assisted under the Comprehensive Service Programs for Homeless Veterans program under subchapter II of chapter 20 of title 38, United States Code ( 38 U.S.C. 2011 et seq. ); housing and facilities assisted under the grant program for homeless veterans with special needs under section 2061 of title 38, United States Code; permanent housing for which assistance is provided under the program for financial assistance for supportive services for very low-income veteran families in permanent housing under section 2044 of title 38, United States Code; any other housing assisted by any housing program administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; housing assisted by the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund established under the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 ( 12 U.S.C. 4701 et seq. ); housing assisted under the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act ( 42 U.S.C. 8101 et seq. ); housing assisted under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 ( 42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq. ), including housing assisted with amounts provided during a disaster as described in such Act; transitional or short-term housing assisted under the grant program under chapter 11 of subtitle B of Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ; housing assisted under such other Federal housing programs as identified for the purposes of this section; and Federally subsidized dwelling units that provide affordable housing to low-income persons by means of restricted rents or rental assistance, as identified for the purposes of this section; and with respect to a complaint alleging a violation of the Violence Against Women Act, means a covered housing program (as that term is defined in section 41411 of such Act ( 34 U.S.C. 12491 )).

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