; Whereas the role of Federal affordable housing investments is even more important given the limited ability of the private market alone to address these needs; Whereas various programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development help to subsidize housing for more than 4,000,000 low-income families, including the Public Housing program, the Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV) program, the Section 8 Project-Based Rental Assistance program, the Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program, the Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities program, and the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) program; Whereas despite leveraging billions of dollars in private resources to preserve and expand the supply of affordable housing, affordable housing programs continue to be chronically underfunded despite their success at providing safe housing to families in need; Whereas chronic underfunding of the Public Housing Capital Fund has led to a backlog of more than $26,000,000,000 in capital repairs and deteriorating conditions for residents; Whereas without Federal investments, many more families would be homeless, living in substandard or overcrowded conditions, or struggling to meet other basic needs because too much of their limited income would be used to pay rent; Whereas low Federal spending caps required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 ( Public Law 112–25 ) have decreased funding for affordable housing and community development programs; Whereas these austere spending caps threaten affordable housing and community development for millions of low income families; Whereas even renters with housing subsidies often face barriers to finding housing providers willing to rent to them; Whereas under current Federal law, housing discrimination against a renter is illegal if it is based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, or disability