Add work requirements and time limits to rental assistance
What the document says“implement maximum term limits for residents in PBRA and TBRA programs”
The chapter asks the department to restrict eligibility where admission would fail to encourage upward mobility, to reduce what it calls the implicit anti-marriage bias in housing assistance, to strengthen work and work-readiness requirements, and to cap how long residents can stay in project-based and tenant-based rental assistance. It says Congress should also legislate against provisions that discourage work and marriage.
What the document actually says“implement maximum term limits for residents in PBRA and TBRA programs”
Set a cap on how long people can stay in these programs.
Rental help has no time limit now. The book says there should be one. It also wants people to work to keep the help.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Public Law 119-101 touches the subject without doing what the passage asks. Section 803 orders a study of work requirements already in place at Moving to Work agencies, subject to a finding that the study would not harm low-income families, and section 505 lets up to 25 more agencies join that demonstration while barring fourteen of the existing waivers for the new group. Neither imposes a work requirement or a maximum term of assistance in project-based or tenant-based rental assistance, and nothing in the law addresses the marriage penalty the chapter names. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.