Affordable Communities Employment Act of 2011
Latest action · Jan 12, 2012 Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedOct 25, 2011
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Affordable Communities Employment Act of 2011 - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 with respect to housing and community development programs directed toward low- and very low-income persons, particularly recipients of government housing assistance.
Establishes, in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an Office of Economic Opportunities to carry out such programs.
Prescribes requirements for training and employment programs, conditioning the use of funds by recipient, contractor, and subcontractor on priority to low- and very low-income persons for training and employment opportunities generated by such funds.
Specifies among low- and very low-income persons recipients of federal rental assistance, including public housing residents, residents of other federally assisted subsidized properties, and participants in the Section 8 rental housing assistance program.
Sets priorities in contracting under such programs for: (1) qualified businesses that are majority owned and controlled by low- and very-low income persons residing in the service area, metropolitan area, or non-metropolitan county where the assistance is being expended; (2) qualified businesses that provide significant training and job opportunities to low- and very low-income persons who reside in such area or county; (3) qualified businesses or to disadvantaged businesses located in distressed communities that provide economic opportunities to low-income residents of such area or county; (4) small and disadvantaged qualified businesses; and (5) other qualified businesses located in such area or county.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 12, 2012Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.
- Oct 25, 2011Introduced in House
- Oct 25, 2011Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Administrative remedies
- Building construction
- Civil actions and liability
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Employee hiring
- Employment and training programs
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Government information and archives
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing and community development funding
- Low- and moderate-income housing
- Minority and disadvantaged businesses
- Performance measurement
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public housing
- Residential rehabilitation and home repair
- Small business
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Oct 25, 2011Introduced in House
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