Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Unleashing Needed Local Options to Construct and Keep Housing Act or the UNLOCK Housing Act.
Section 2. Amendments to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
Section 105(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (25)(D), by striking and at the end;
(2) in paragraph (26), by striking the period at the end and inserting; and; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
(27) in the case of any metropolitan city or urban county, State, unit of general local government, insular area, or Indian tribe that receives amounts under section 106, the construction of new residential housing for low- and moderate-income persons, with or without assistance from a neighborhood-based nonprofit organization or other private or public nonprofit organization.