Fully fund the Section 8 program, including full funding for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program and Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA) program.
Allow HAP to be used for short-term financial assistance including security deposits, application fees, and a risk mitigation fund.
Prohibit source of income discrimination at the federal level.
Help HUD improve Fair Market Rents (FMRs), including increased funding for the census bureau to expand the sample size of the American Community Survey.
Ensure Renewal Funding Inflation Factors (RFIFs) reflect the actual increased costs of running the HCV Program and appropriately track increases in Fair Market Rents.
Ensure that all families have access to neighborhoods of opportunity through mobility programs and Enhanced Payment Standards.
Make Emergency Housing Vouchers permanent.
Allow PHAs to consider self-certification or third-party income determinations as the highest form of income verification for the voucher program and the public housing program.
Remove the Community Service and Self-Sufficiency Requirement (CSSR), which remains an inequitable policy that has little benefit for residents.
Create a permanent Emergency Housing Rental Assistance Program, run through HUD via PHAs, to help families at-risk of homelessness maintain their home.
Treat insurance proceeds as nonfederal funding, allowing PHAs to stretch those dollars further.
Ensure that the Annual Contributions Contract (ACC) between HUD and PHAs is representative of the requirements in the 1937 Housing Act.
