This bill helps families with housing vouchers move to new areas by requiring some public housing agencies to accept those vouchers. It ensures that families can find homes more easily without long billing processes.
Rural Housing Accessibility Act This bill requires a public housing agency (PHA) that uses less than 95% of its budget authority in a given year to accept a housing choice voucher from a family that received the voucher from an agency in a different jurisdiction. The PHA that accepts the voucher (1) must make assistance payments to the family under an annual contributions contract, and (2) may not bill the initial PHA for the assistance payments for more than 12 months.
1. This bill requires certain public housing agencies to accept housing choice vouchers from families moving to new areas. 2. It defines which public housing agencies must absorb these vouchers based on their budget usage. 3. Agencies must inform families whether they will take over the voucher or bill the original agency. 4. If they choose to bill, they can only do so for a maximum of 12 months. 5. The bill aims to make it easier for families to find housing in different locations.
Families using housing choice vouchers who want to move to different areas.