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HR 4161 110th Congress House

Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act

Official title: To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in coordination with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to carry out a pilot program to prevent at… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in coordination with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to carry out a pilot program to prevent at-risk veterans and veteran families from falling into homelessness, and for other purposes.

Introduced: November 13, 2007 Introduced by: Green, Al Democratic · Texas See on congress.gov
Housing and Community Development Armed Forces and National SecurityFamiliesFamily servicesHomeless
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Housing subsidiesLow-income housingNonprofit organizationsRentSocial WelfareVeterans' benefits
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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Passed Senate
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Became law
Mar 25, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
Nov 16, 2007
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Nov 13, 2007
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Nov 13, 2007
Introduced in House
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 Latest action March 25, 2008

Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to provide assistance to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives to expand the supply of supportive housing for certain very low-income veteran families.

Allows such assistance to be in the form of: (1) a grant for costs of planning a supportive housing project; (2) a capital advance for such project; and (3) project rental assistance.

Requires the Secretary to coordinate with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that any housing assistance provided to veterans or veteran families includes a range of services tailored to the needs of very low-income veteran families.

Requires HUD periodically to establish development cost limitations by market area for various types and sizes of such supportive housing.

Establishes a special housing account.

Requires the owner of such supportive housing to adopt HUD-approved tenant selection procedures.

Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to extend to all homeless veterans, regardless of medical condition, the program of rental vouchers for Department of Veterans Affairs supported housing, which is currently limited to homeless veterans who have chronic mental illnesses or chronic substance use disorders.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 2330 Related bill Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act
 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 4
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 2
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Cleaver, Emanuel
Missouri · Dec 6, 2007
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Waters, Maxine
California · Nov 13, 2007
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4161: Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-4161/
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