{ "id": "RS21591", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RS21591", "active": true, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 587592, "date": "2016-10-17", "retrieved": "2020-01-02T15:18:38.902960", "title": "Community Service Requirement for Residents of Public Housing", "summary": "The Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-276) included provisions designed to promote employment and self-sufficiency among residents of assisted housing, including a mandatory work or community service requirement for residents of public housing. Non-elderly, non-disabled, non-working residents of public housing are required to participate in eight hours per month of either community service or economic self-sufficiency activities in order to maintain their eligibility for public housing. \nThe community service requirement has been controversial since its inception. Supporters of the provision believe that it is consistent with the goals of welfare reform and that it will promote civic engagement and \u201cgiving back\u201d among residents of public housing; detractors argue that it is punitive, unfairly applied, and administratively burdensome. \nIn February 2015, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Inspector General released an audit critical of HUD\u2019s implementation and enforcement of the community service requirement. In response to the report, HUD issued further guidance in August 2015 related to the statutory/regulatory requirements for administering the community service requirement; data collection and reporting requirements; action to take against noncompliant tenants; and penalties against PHAs that do not comply. \nRecent HUD data indicate that approximately 14% of public housing residents are subject to the community service requirement and not otherwise exempt. 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Non-elderly, non-disabled, non-working residents of public housing are required to participate in eight hours per month of either community service or economic self-sufficiency activities in order to maintain their eligibility for public housing. This provision was briefly implemented in FY2001; however, an act of Congress suspended enforcement of the provision in FY2002. That suspension ended in 2003 and residents of public housing have since been required to comply with the community service requirement. \nSupporters of the provision believe that it is consistent with the goals of welfare reform and that it will promote civic engagement and \u201cgiving back\u201d among residents of public housing; detractors argue that it is punitive, unfair, and administratively burdensome. Legislation was introduced in the 107th, 108th, 109th , 110th , and 111th Congresses to repeal the requirement, although no bills were enacted. In the 111th Congress, a floor amendment was approved during House floor consideration of the FY2010 HUD appropriations bill (H.R. 3288) that would have prohibited PHAs from using the funding provided in the bill to implement the community service requirement. A contradictory provision supporting the existing requirement was adopted during floor consideration of the Senate version of the bill. The final FY2010 HUD funding law included no changes to the requirement. Similar legislation has been introduced in the 112th Congress (H.R. 3564).\nThis fact sheet describes the provision and its history. 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