Amendment ID: S2708-4

Amendment 4

Temporally Suspending CHAMP to fill State-Aided Public Housing Utilizing Local Wait Lists

Messrs. Moore and Oliveira, Ms. Rausch, Ms. Edwards and Messrs. Keenan and Feeney move that the proposed new text be amended by inserting after section __ the following section:-

SECTION __. Notwithstanding section 14 of chapter 235 of the acts of 2014 or any other general or special law, regulation or rule to the contrary, every housing authority, as defined by section 1 of chapter 121B, shall utilize local wait lists for the selection of public housing tenants to fill vacancies within state-aided public housing subject to all other requirements and preferences applied as required by law.

This section shall remain in effect until the number of unoccupied state-aided public housing units, as of the effective date of this act, is reduced by 50%; provided that not less than 1,000 of said unoccupied state-aided public housing units shall be newly occupied prior to the termination of this section.

Upon the termination of this section all housing authorities shall resume use the centralized wait list for selection of public housing tenants pursuant to section 14 of chapter 235 of the acts of 2014.