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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 modernize public housing in the United States. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Establishing grant programs to facilitate workforce development and high-income employment transition at public housing, as well as grants to fund green retrofits, energy efficiency upgrades, renewable energy generation, and community resilience projects in public housing. 2. Amending the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to encourage good architectural design and environmental performance in government housing programs. 3. Amending the United States Housing Act of 1937 to modernize the federal government's role in public housing, including guaranteeing the right to housing for every individual and protecting and expanding public housing as a sustainable safety net. 4. Requiring compliance with prevailing wage and Buy American requirements for contractors and subcontractors working on projects funded under the bill. 5. Enhancing the Section 3 program to increase economic opportunities for low- and very low-income persons and public housing resident-owned businesses. 6. Providing additional funding and support for the Family Self-Sufficiency program to help public housing residents achieve economic independence. 7. Mandating the formation of resident councils in public housing projects with at least 50 dwelling units to improve resident participation in public housing operations. 8. Repealing the "Faircloth Amendment" to allow for the construction of new public housing units.

Housing and Urban Affairs

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