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2025 TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE HOUSING, JOBS, AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ACT PERMANENT AUTHORIZATION OF 2024
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION:
Section 1. Title and Codification
This legislative act shall be titled and codified as the "2025 technical amendments to" the Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act Permanent Authorization of 2024, alternatively as the "Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act," or the "Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act, as amended."
Section 2. Purpose and Findings
A. Purpose: The purpose of this Act is to substantially repeal, replace and to permanently authorize the Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act (HJSCA), originally enacted in 2019 and amended and reauthorized in 2022; to authorize funding cycles of three-year periods; to require three-year housing plans coinciding with said three-year funding cycles; to authorize housing and community facility programs; to create jobs in construction and related fields; to increase the cultural, economic and environmental sustainability of Cherokee Nation communities; to require annual reports measuring success in achieving the purposes and policies of this Act.
B. Findings: The Council finds that the Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act of 2019, as amended and reauthorized in 2022, made historic investments into housing rehabilitation for some of Cherokee Nation's most vulnerable citizens and the community facilities that serve them. HJSCA is responsible for more than 42,400 housing rehabilitation projects completed or in some phase of completion and over 360 housing units completed or in some phase of construction. HJSCA was further responsible for sustainability improvements to more than 42 community buildings and the construction of 5 new community buildings. The Council finds that notwithstanding HJSCA's historic $150 million investment into these effo...
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