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 PUBLIC LAW 101-625—NOV. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 4181 pate in a program designed to provide public assistance recipients with greater access to employment and educational opportunities; (II) assisting families in accordance with subsection (u)(2); (III) assisting families identified by local public agencies involved in providing for the welfare of children as having a lack of adequate housing that is a primary factor in the imminent placement of a child in foster care, or in preventing the discharge of a child from foster care and reunification with his or her family; (IV) assisting youth, upon discharge from foster care, in cases in which return to the family or extended family or adoption is not available; and (V) achieving other objectives of national housing policy as affirmed by Congress; "(iii) prohibit any individual or family evicted from housing assisted under the Act by reason of drugrelated criminal activity from having a preference under any provision of this subparagraph for 3 years unless the evicted tenant successfully completes a rehabilitation program approved by the agency, except that the agency may waive the application of this clause under standards established by the Secretary (which shall include waiver for any member of a family of an individual prohibited from tenancy under this clause who the agency determines clearly did not participate in and had no knowledge of such criminal activity or when circumstances leading to eviction no longer exist); and "(iv) are designed to ensure that, to the maximum extent feasible, the projects of an agency will include families with a broad range of incomes and will avoid concentrations of low-income and deprived families with serious social problems.". SEC. 502. REFORM OF PUBLIC HOUSING MANAGEMENT. (a) PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES.— Section 6(j) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437d(j)) is amended to read as follows: "(j)(l) The Secretary shall develop and publish in the Federal Register indicators to assess the management performsmce of public housing agencies. The indicators shall be established by rule under section 553 of title 5, United States Code. Such indicators shall enable the Secretary to evaluate the performance of public housing agencies in all major areas of management operations. The Secretary shall, in particular, use the following indicators: "(A) The number and percentage of vacancies within an agency's inventory, including the progress that an agency has made within the previous 3 years to reduce such vacancies. "(B) The amount and percentage of funds obligated to the public housing agency under section 14 of this Act which remain unexpended after 3 years. "(C) The percentage of rents uncollected. "(D) The energy consumption (with appropriate adjustments to reflect different regions and unit sizes). "(E) The average period of time that an agency requires to repair and turn-around vacant units. Federal Register, publication.

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