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Rural Housing Accessibility Act
A bill to require certain public housing agencies to absorb port-in housing choice vouchers, and for other purposes.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To President
- Became law
Summary
Rural Housing Accessibility Act
This bill requires a public housing agency (PHA) that uses less than 95% of its budget authority in a given year to accept a housing choice voucher from a family that received the voucher from an agency in a different jurisdiction. The PHA that accepts the voucher (1) must make assistance payments to the family under an annual contributions contract, and (2) may not bill the initial PHA for the assistance payments for more than 12 months.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Mar 24, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
- Mar 24, 2025 Introduced in Senate
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