Green New Deal for Public Housing Act
Latest action · Apr 19, 2021 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
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.
- IntroducedApr 19, 2021
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Green New Deal for Public Housing Act
This bill addresses energy efficiency and workforce development in the context of public housing.
Specifically, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) must award grants to public housing agencies (PHAs) and other eligible entities under a variety of new programs, including programs for
- facilitating workforce development and high-income employment transition;
- conducting physical needs assessments and subsequent energy efficiency retrofits; and
- making upgrades, replacements, and improvements for energy efficiency, building electrification, and water quality upgrades.
Recipients of these grants must provide relocation assistance for residents who are displaced during construction and must ensure that they can return to their homes once retrofitting is completed.
A certain percentage of the employment positions generated by these grant programs and other specified federal grant programs must be filled by low-income individuals, and a specified percentage of certain contracts associated with these programs must be awarded to businesses owned by residents of public housing.
The bill also repeals a provision that prohibits a PHA from using HUD funds to construct or operate new public housing units if doing so would result in the PHA owning or operating more units than it did on October 1, 1999.
Cosponsors 45
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 19, 2021 to Mar 30, 2022; 22 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-PA | Brendan F. Boyle | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-RI | David N. Cicilline | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-MI | Debbie Dingell | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-CA | Grace F. Napolitano | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-MN | Ilhan Omar | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-NY | Jamaal Bowman | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-CO | Joe Neguse | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-OH | Joyce Beatty | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-NY | Mondaire Jones | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-CA | Ted Lieu | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-NY | Thomas R. Suozzi | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Original | Apr 19, 2021 |
| D-MO | Cori Bush | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Grace Meng | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Marie Newman | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-OR | Peter A. DeFazio | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-VT | Peter Welch | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-NY | Ritchie Torres | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-TN | Steve Cohen | May 11, 2021 | |
| D-NM | Melanie A. Stansbury | Jul 29, 2021 | |
| D-CA | Alan S. Lowenthal | Sep 20, 2021 | |
| D-MI | Andy Levin | Sep 20, 2021 | |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Sep 20, 2021 | |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Feb 1, 2022 | |
| D-NY | Paul Tonko | Feb 2, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Ro Khanna | Feb 2, 2022 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Feb 15, 2022 | |
| D-MD | Jamie Raskin | Mar 8, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Jared Huffman | Mar 8, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Jimmy Gomez | Mar 8, 2022 | |
| D-CA | Nanette Diaz Barragán | Mar 9, 2022 | |
| D-MA | James P. McGovern | Mar 29, 2022 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Mar 29, 2022 | |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Mar 30, 2022 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Apr 19, 2021 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 19, 2021Introduced in House
- Apr 19, 2021Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 167, no. 67, April 19, 2021, page H1955.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 1218 | Green New Deal for Public Housing Act | Identical bill | Apr 19, 2021 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To provide economic empowerment opportunities in the United States through the modernization of public housing, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Green New Deal for Public Housing Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Air quality
- Alternative and renewable resources
- Architecture
- Building construction
- Buy American requirements
- Child care and development
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Congressional oversight
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Emergency planning and evacuation
- Employee hiring
- Employment and training programs
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Environmental health
- Family services
- Government studies and investigations
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing and community development funding
- Housing industry and standards
- Indian social and development programs
- Infrastructure development
- Labor market
- Lighting, heating, cooling
- Low- and moderate-income housing
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public housing
- Rural conditions and development
- Solid waste and recycling
- State and local government operations
- Water quality
- Water use and supply
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 19, 2021Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
