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This bill aims to increase the number of landlords participating in the Housing Choice Voucher program, which is the federal government's largest program to help low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. The key provisions of the bill include: providing one-time incentive payments to landlords who own units in low-poverty areas and enter into housing assistance payment contracts; authorizing the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide security deposit payments to public housing agencies to be paid to landlords on behalf of tenants; establishing a Herschel Lashkowitz Housing Partnership Fund to fund these incentives; and requiring the use of "small area fair market rent" in a greater number of metropolitan areas to set payment standards for the program. The bill also aims to reform the Section 8 Management Assessment Program to promote positive interactions with landlords and increase the diversity of areas where voucher holders can access low-poverty, integrated neighborhoods.

Housing and Urban Affairs

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/32/all-info