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H. Rept. 115-464 1 (2017-12-13)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaawl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Gp 115TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-464 FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY ACT DECEMBER 13, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. HENSARLING, from the Committee on Financial Services, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 4258] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Financial Services, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 4258) to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate use of assistance under sections 8 and 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 with public and private resources, to enable eligible families to achieve economic independence and self- sufficiency, and for other purposes, having considered the same, re- port favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE AND SUMMARY On November 6, 2017, Representative Sean Duffy introduced H.R. 4258, the Family Self-Sufficiency Act. The legislation would relieve the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) administrative and regulatory bur- dens to administer the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program by combining the two separate FSS programs into one program. In ad- dition, the bill seeks to broaden the supportive services that the FSS can provide to a participant and it would allow tenants who currently reside in privately-owned properties with HUD project- based assistance to participate in the FSS program. The FSS pro- gram, administered by HUD, helps families in public housing and the voucher program make progress toward economic self-suffi- ciency by combining stable affordable housing with work-promoting service coordination and a rent incentive in the form of an escrow account that grows as the families' earnings increase. 79-006