1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Crisis Housing Act of 2020 . 2. Crisis housing assistance program (a) In general Title I of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 39. Crisis housing assistance program (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Affected area The term affected area means— (A) a State in which a trigger event occurs; (B) a county in which a trigger event occurs; or (C) an Indian tribal government that is subject to a trigger event. (2) Administrator The term Administrator means the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (3) County The term county means a county, parish, or other equivalent county division, as defined by the Bureau of the Census. (4) Eligible recipient The term eligible recipient means a family— (A) (i) that is a low-income family; or (ii) that has been determined to require housing assistance by the Administrator under section 408(b) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5174(b) ); (B) (i) that resides or is homeless in an affected area on a date that is on or not more than 7 days before the date on which a trigger event occurs in the affected area, regardless of whether the family resides or experiences homelessness in the affected area on the date on which the family applies for assistance under this section; or (ii) that is governed by an Indian tribal government that is subject to a trigger event