Sec. 204. public housing/section 8 moving to work demonstration
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## Sec. 204 public housing/section 8 moving to work demonstration **[**[42 U.S.C. 1437f note](/us/usc/t42/s1437f)**]** ###
(a)Purpose The purpose of this demonstration is to give public housing agencies and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development the flexibility to design and test various approaches for providing and administering housing assistance that: reduce cost and achieve greater cost effectiveness in Federal expenditures; give incentives to families with children where the head of household is working, seeking work, or is preparing for work by participating in job training, educational programs, or programs that assist people to obtain employment and become economically self-sufficient; and increase housing choices for low-income families. ###
(b)Program Authority The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall conduct a demonstration program under this section beginning in fiscal year 1996 under which up to 30 public housing agencies (including Indian housing authorities) administering the public or Indian housing program and the section 8 housing assistance payments program may be selected by the Secretary to participate. The Secretary shall provide training and technical assistance during the demonstration and conduct detailed evaluations of up to 15 such agencies in an effort to identify replicable program models promoting the purpose of the demonstration. Under the demonstration, notwithstanding any provision of the United States Housing Act of 1937 except as provided in subsection (e), an agency may combine operating assistance provided under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937, modernization assistance provided under section 14 of such Act, and assistance provided under section 8 of such Act for the certificate and voucher programs, to provide housing assistance for low-income families, as defined in section 3(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, and services to facilitate the transition to work on such terms and conditions as the agency may propose and the Secretary may approve. ###
(c)Application An application to participate in the demonstration— ####
(1)shall request authority to combine assistance under sections 8, 9, and 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937; ####
(2)shall be submitted only after the public housing agency provides for citizen participation through a public hearing and, if appropriate, other means; ####
(3)shall include a plan developed by the agency that takes into account comments from the public hearing and any other public comments on the proposed program, and comments from current and prospective residents who would be affected, and that includes criteria for— #####
(A)families to be assisted, which shall require that at least 75 percent of the families assisted by participating demonstration public housing authorities shall be very low-income families, as defined in section 3(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937; #####
(B)establishing a reasonable rent policy, which shall be designed to encourage employment and self-sufficiency by participating families, consistent with the purpose of this demonstration, such as by excluding some or all of a family's earned income for purposes of determining rent; #####
(C)continuing to assist substantially the same total number of eligible low-income families as would have been served had the amounts not been combined; #####
(D)maintaining a comparable mix of families (by family size) as would have been provided had the amounts not been used under the demonstration; and #####
(E)assuring that housing assisted under the demonstration program meets housing quality standards established or approved by the Secretary; and ####
(4)may request assistance for training and technical assistance to assist with design of the demonstration and to participate in a detailed evaluation. ###
(d)Selection In selecting among applications, the Secretary shall take into account the potential of each agency to plan and carry out a program under the demonstration, the relative performance by an agency under the public housing management assessment program under section 6(j) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, and other appropriate factors as determined by the Secretary. ###
(e)Applicability of 1937 Act Provisions ####
(1)Section 18 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall continue to apply to public housing notwithstanding any use of the housing under this demonstration. ####
(2)Section 12 of such Act shall apply to housing assisted under the demonstration, other than housing assisted solely due to occupancy by families receiving tenant-based assistance. ###
(f)Effect on Section 8, Operating Subsidies, and Comprehensive Grant Program Allocations The amount of assistance received under section 8, section 9, or pursuant to section 14 by a public housing agency participating in the demonstration under this part shall not be diminished by its participation. ###
(g)Records, Reports, and Audits ####
(1)Keeping of records Each agency shall keep such records as the Secretary may prescribe as reasonably necessary to disclose the amounts and the disposition of amounts under this demonstration, to ensure compliance with the requirements of this section, and to measure performance. ####
(2)Reports Each agency shall submit to the Secretary a report, or series of reports, in a form and at a time specified by the Secretary. Each report shall— #####
(A)document the use of funds made available under this section; #####
(B)provide such data as the Secretary may request to assist the Secretary in assessing the demonstration; and #####
(C)describe and analyze the effect of assisted activities in addressing the objectives of this part. ####
(3)Access to documents by the secretary The Secretary shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records that are pertinent to assistance in connection with, and the requirements of, this section. ####
(4)Access to documents by the comptroller general The Comptroller General of the United States, or any of the duly authorized representatives of the Comptroller General, shall have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records that are pertinent to assistance in connection with, and the requirements of, this section. ###
(h)Evaluation and Report ####
(1)Consultation with pha and family representatives In making assessments throughout the demonstration, the Secretary shall consult with representatives of public housing agencies and residents. ####
(2)Report to congress Not later than 180 days after the end of the third year of the demonstration, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report evaluating the programs carried out under the demonstration. The report shall also include findings and recommendations for any appropriate legislative action. ###
(i)Funding for Technical Assistance and Evaluation From amounts appropriated for assistance under section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 for fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998, the Secretary may use up to a total of $5,000,000— ####
(1)to provide, directly or by contract, training and technical assistance— #####
(A)to public housing agencies that express an interest to apply for training and technical assistance pursuant to subsection (c)(4), to assist them in designing programs to be proposed for the demonstration; and #####
(B)to up to 10 agencies selected to receive training and technical assistance pursuant to subsection (c)(4), to assist them in implementing the approved program; and ####
(2)to conduct detailed evaluations of the activities of the public housing agencies under paragraph (1)(B), directly or by contract. ###
(j)Capital and Operating Fund Assistance With respect to any public housing agency participating in the demonstration under this section that receives assistance from the Capital or Operating Fund under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (as amended by the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998), for purposes of this section— ####
(1)any reference to assistance under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall be considered to refer also to assistance provided from the Operating Fund under section 9(e) of such Act (as so amended); and ####
(2)any reference to assistance under section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 shall be considered to refer also to assistance provided from the Capital Fund under section 9(d) of such Act (as so amended). * * * * * * * # TITLE III RESCISSIONS AND OFFSETS ## CHAPTER 1 ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT ### subchapter A United States Enrichment Corporation Privatization
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