1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Housing Homeless Veterans Act of 2017 . 2. Allocation of HUD–VASH vouchers (a) Amendment to VASH program Paragraph (19) of section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(19) ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs: (D) Allocation criteria Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including paragraph (6) under the heading Public and Indian Housing—Tenant-Based Rental Assistance in title II of division K of Public Law 115–31 ), in making amounts for assistance under this paragraph available among public housing agencies in each fiscal year, the Secretary shall give priority to public housing agencies that— (i) serve areas having the highest numbers of homeless veterans; and (ii) have fully utilized their available funds under this paragraph for the preceding fiscal year and have a demonstrated need for incremental assistance under this paragraph. (E) Reallocation of unused vouchers for VASH assistance (i) Recapture and reallocation Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall— (I) recapture from any public housing agency described in clause (ii) any amounts of assistance provided under this paragraph to the agency that are not— (aa) under lease after 24 months; (bb) committed under an agreement to enter into a housing assistance payments contract; or (cc) committed, under a commitment of award letter that has been approved by the board of governors or other similar governing body of the public housing agency, for project-based voucher assistance for a project