Homeowners Access to Visitability Enhancements (HAVE) Act of 2016

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Bill Number

HR 5173

Introduced

May 6, 2016

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Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

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Disability and paralysis Housing and Community Development Housing and community development funding Housing for the elderly and disabled Low- and moderate-income housing Residential rehabilitation and home repair

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Homeowners Access to Visitability Enhancements (HAVE) Act of 2016

This bill authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to low-income families to assist them in obtaining residences that are visitable for individuals.

A residence shall be "visitable" if it complies with the most current version of the visitability standards of the International Code Council/American National Standards Institute.

Amounts from such grants may be used only for:

acquiring a visitable residence that has never previously been occupied,
constructing a visitable residence, and
retrofitting or renovating an existing residence to make it visitable.

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