SEC-957 -- MAXIMUM ANNUAL LIMITATION ON RENT INCREASES RESULTING FROM 

 
EMPLOYMENT.
 
 (a) In General.-Notwithstanding any other law and subject to approval
in appropriations Acts, the rent charged for any dwelling unit assisted
under any housing assistance program administered by the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development, to a family whose monthly adjusted income
increases as a result of the employment of a member of the family who
was previously unemployed, may not be increased as a result of the
increased monthly adjusted income due to such employment by more than
10 percent in each 12-month period during the 36-month period beginning
upon such employment.
 
 (b) Definition of Housing Assistance.-For purposes of this section, the
term "housing assistance program" means any program of assistance for
housing-
 
 (1) for which assistance is provided by the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development in the form of a grant, contract, loan, loan
guarantee, cooperative agreement, interest subsidy, insurance, or direct
appropriation; and
 
 (2) under which rent payments, with respect to all or some of the units
in the housing assisted, are limited, restricted, or determined under
law or regulation based on the income of the occupying families.