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This bill, the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, aims to stimulate the workforce capacity, tools, financing, and materials needed to rehabilitate, upgrade, and transition public housing in the United States. Key provisions include establishing grant programs to facilitate workforce development, conduct deep energy retrofits, improve energy efficiency and water quality, generate community energy, and support community resilience and sustainability projects in public housing. The bill also amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to encourage good architectural design and the United States Housing Act of 1937 to modernize the federal-local government relationship in providing public housing. Additionally, the bill strengthens the Section 3 program for economic opportunities and the Family Self-Sufficiency program, and requires the formation of resident councils in public housing projects.