Equal Opportunity for Residential Representation Act
- Last Action
- 2/16/2017
Actions
- 2017-02-16Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
- 2017-02-16Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
- 2017-02-16Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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.
- 2017-02-16Introduced in House
- 2017-02-16Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2017-02-16 (00)
Equal Opportunity for Residential Representation Act
This bill requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) Office of Community Planning and Development to carry out a program to make grants to organizations to provide legal services and other related supportive services on behalf of low-income families (including individuals and victims of domestic violence) who reside in a rental dwelling unit and have an income that does not exceed 80% of the median income for the area in which the family resides.
The following organizations may receive such grants:
- nonprofit organizations that provide legal services to persons or families of limited income, including organizations that receive funding from the Legal Services Corporation;
- legal clinics sponsored by law schools or other organizations; and
- such other entities as HUD considers appropriate.
These grants may be used only to provide legal services and other related supportive services in connection with: (1) an eviction of such a family, (2) the prevention of such eviction, (3) a dispute between the landlord and a tenant who is a family member, or (4) enforcing the family's legal rights regarding tenancy or fair housing.
Funds for such program shall be derived from revenues resulting from amendments by this bill to the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the limitation on the mortgage interest deduction for the acquisition indebtedness of certain taxpayers.
Cosponsors (18)
- SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D-TX)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- Nanette Barragan (D-CA)
- JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
- BARBARA LEE (D-CA)
- JOSE SERRANO (D-NY)
- Joseph Kennedy (D-MA)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Adriano Espaillat (D-NY)
- Donald Beyer (D-VA)
- JOHN CONYERS (D-MI)
- Dwight Evans (D-PA)
- Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
- Mark Takano (D-CA)
- JAMES MCGOVERN (D-MA)
- LOUISE SLAUGHTER (D-NY)
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
- JAMES CLYBURN (D-SC)
Subjects
- Crime victims
- Domestic violence and child abuse
- Housing and community development funding
- Housing finance and home ownership
- Housing supply and affordability
- Income tax deductions
- Interest, dividends, interest rates
- Lawyers and legal services
- Low- and moderate-income housing
- Poverty and welfare assistance
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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