• Tenant-Based Rental Assistance – $4 billion to allow public housing agencies (PHAs) to respond to coronavirus, including $1 billion for new, temporary, vouchers for individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, or fleeing domestic violence.
• Homeless assistance funding - $5 billion for the Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) program to enable state and local governments to finance housing and health related services for the hundreds of thousands of people currently experiencing homelessness. This section would also renew funding for grantees awarded Continuum of Care funding in 2019
• Public Housing Operating Fund – $2 billion for PHAs to carry out coronavirus response for the operation and management of almost 1 million public housing units.
• Native American Programs – $400 million to help Indian tribes and tribally designated housing entities prevent, respond to, and prepare for coronavirus. This includes up to $150 million in formula funding through the Native American Housing Block Grants program and not less than $250 million in imminent threat grants through the Indian Community Development Block Grant program.
• Housing for Persons with AIDS – $65 million to maintain operations, rental assistance, supportive services, and other necessary actions to mitigate the impact of coronavirus on low-income persons with HIV/AIDS.
• Community Development Block Grant – $5 billion for coronavirus response and to mitigate the impacts in our communities to be distributed by formula to current grantees. The legislation continues to waive the public services cap to allow communities to respond to the impacts of the pandemic.
• Homeless Assistance Grants – $5 billion for Emergency Solutions Grants to address the impact of coronavirus among individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and to support additional homeless 14 assistance, prevention, and diversion activities to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic.
• Emergency Rental Assistance – $50 billion to provide emergency assistance to help low-income renters at risk of homelessness avoid eviction due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Project-Based Rental Assistance – $750 million to ensure the continuation of housing assistance for low-income individuals and families living in project-based rental assistance properties, and to ensure housing providers can take the necessary actions to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the pandemic.
• Housing for the Elderly – $500 million to maintain operations at properties providing affordable housing for low-income seniors and to ensure housing providers can take the necessary actions to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
• Housing for Persons with Disabilities – $45 million to maintain operations at properties providing affordable housing for low-income persons with disabilities, and to ensure housing providers can take the necessary actions to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus pandemic.
• Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity – $14 million to address fair housing issues resulting from coronavirus. This includes $4 million for Fair Housing Organization Initiative grants and $10 million for Education and Outreach grants to educate the public and the housing industry about fair housing rights and responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Programs – $375 million, with a waiver of the local match requirement, including:
• $40 million for transitional housing assistance grants;
• Assistance to Homeowners – $21 billion to states, territories, and tribes to address the ongoing needs of homeowners struggling to afford their housing due directly or indirectly to the impacts of the pandemic by providing direct assistance with mortgage payments, property taxes, property insurance, utilities, and other housing related costs.
• Housing Counseling Assistance – $100 million for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (NeighborWorks) to enable housing counselors to respond to the surge of demand for services, which include foreclosure and eviction mitigation counseling, due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Streamlining provision of HUD-VASH vouchers to homeless veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic: Allows public housing agencies administering HUD-VASH rental assistance vouchers to process applications electronically and waive in-person inspection requirements to rapidly house veterans during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
• Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) - Creates three distinct set-asides for targeted relief for the smallest businesses, struggling non-profits, and second loans to the hardest hit businesses with one criteria being up to 30% of remaining and future funding for non-profit organizations of all sizes and types, including housing cooperatives, to be allowed to take first-time PPP loans, with strict limits on lobbying activity and a prohibition on using PPP proceeds to pay lobbyists.
• Includes $436 billion in aid to state, local and tribal governments.
• Provides $1,200 in direct stimulus payments to individuals.