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Rural Housing Accessibility Act
Introduced Mar 24, 2025 by Sen. Joni Ernst
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Latest action · Mar 24, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
What it does
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.
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