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Status of USDA Appropriations for FY 2007
The full House of Representatives and the Senate Appropriations Committee have passed both USDA (H.R. 5384) and HUD (H.R. 5576) spending bills for 2007. Details on the USDA bill are below. Details on the HUD bill are available here. For the full text of the bills and accompanying reports, visit http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app07.html.
H.R. 5384, passed by the House of Representatives on May 24, funds USDA programs for FY 2007 at the same levels passed by the House Appropriations Committee on May 9. Most USDA rural housing programs would receive increases. Farm labor housing received sizeable increases of 70 percent for Section 516 grants and 31 percent for Section 514 loans. Also getting healthy boosts were Section 502 direct homeownership loans and Section 523 self-help grants. Section 515 received $100 million. A new Multifamily Housing Revitalization Program would get $29 million, including $16 million for rural housing vouchers, $3 million for preservation loans, and $9 million to continue the Section 515 preservation and revitalization demonstration.
In the Senate version of H.R. 5384, approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 22, most USDA rural housing programs maintained level funding for FY 2007. In the Senate farm labor housing, Section 502 direct loans, and Section 523 self-help grants did not receive the increases provided by the House. The Senate bill provides $100 million for Section 515 loans, $335.4 million for one-year rental assistance contracts, $28 million for multifamily housing revitalization, and $6.3 million for the Rural Community Development Initiative. The Senate bill also opens farm labor housing to processing workers.
The Senate bill must next be considered by the full Senate. House-Senate conferees will have to resolve differences between the two bills. Both versions of H.R. 5384 and the accompanying reports (H.Rept. 109-463 and S.Rept. 109-266) are at http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app07.html.
USDA/RHS Program
(in millions of dollars) |
FY 2006 Approp. |
FY 2007
Proposed Budget |
FY 2007 House-Passed Approp. Bill (HR 5384) |
FY 2007 Senate
Approps. Comm. Bill (HR 5384) |
| Loans |
| 502 Single Fam. Direct |
$1,129.4 |
1,237.5 |
1,237.5 |
1,129.4 |
| 502 Single Fam. Guar.
|
3,644.2 |
3,564.2 |
3,564.2 |
3,644.2 |
| 504 Very Low-Inc. Repair |
34.7 |
36.3 |
36.3 |
34.7 |
| 514 Farm Labor Housing |
38.1 |
41.6 |
50 |
35 |
| 515 Rental Housing |
99 |
0 |
100 |
100 |
| 538 Rental Housing Guar. |
99 |
198 |
100 |
100 |
| Grants & Payments |
| 504 Very Low-Inc. Repair |
30 |
30 |
** |
29.7 |
| 516 Farm Labor Hsg. Grants |
13.9 |
13.9 |
23.6 |
13.9 |
| 523 Self-Help Tech Asst. |
33.6 |
37.6 |
37.6 |
33.7 |
| 533 Hsg. Preserv. Grants |
10 |
9.9 |
** |
9.9 |
| 521 Rental Assistance *** |
646.6 |
486.3 |
335.4 |
335.4 |
| Multifamily Housing Revitalization |
- |
74.25 |
29 |
28 |
| 542 Rural Rental Vouchers |
15.8 |
0 |
* |
10* |
| Preservation Revolving Loans |
3 |
0 |
* |
3* |
| Rental Preservation Demonstration |
9 |
0 |
* |
15* |
| Rural Community Devel. Init. |
6.35 |
0 |
0 |
6.29 |
* Included in Section 542 Vouchers/Revitalization Program.
** Included in the Rural Housing Assistance Grants account. The House version of H.R. 5384 would provide a total of $40.6 million for RHAG, lower than the $44 million appropriated for FY 2006.
*** Section 521 Rental Assistance is provided through four-year contracts in FY 2006. The budget proposed reducing the contract length to two years, and the House and Senate bills would reduce it to one year.
Posted:June 7, 2006
Last updated: February 2, 2007
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