Homelessness Payment Act: Addressing the Homeless Issue throughout our Country

4.20.2023 

Homelessness Payment Act: Addressing the Homeless Issue Throughout our Country

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 735 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 735

  To strengthen the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 9, 2023

 Mr. Reed (for himself, Ms. Collins, Mr. Van Hollen, Ms. Cortez Masto, 
and Ms. Klobuchar) introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
  and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To strengthen the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
              HOMELESSNESS.

    (a) In General.--Title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 11311 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 208 (42 U.S.C. 11318), by striking ``to 
        carry out this title $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2010 and such 
        sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2011'' and inserting 
        ``such sums as may be necessary to carry out this title'';
            (2) by striking section 209 (42 U.S.C. 11319); and
            (3) by redesignating section 210 (42 U.S.C. 11320) as 
        section 209.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendments.--The table of contents in 
section 101(b) of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11301 note) is amended by striking the items relating to sections 209 
and 210 and inserting the following:

``Sec. 209. Encouragement of State involvement.''.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)[PECE1]  shows that further increases in homelessness were largely avoided despite the economic crisis created by the COVID–19 pandemic –in large part because of the Biden administration’s robust response, including critical assistance in the American Rescue Plan and a historic economic recovery. According to HUD data, 582,462 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2022 – a slight .3% increase since 2020.

Pending Further Review, to be signed.