1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act . 2. Purposes The purpose of this Act is— (1) to stimulate, gather, and develop the workforce capacity, tools, financing, and materials needed to rehabilitate, upgrade, modernize, and transition public housing; (2) to rehabilitate public housing that is severely distressed and causing residents to be exposed to unhealthy and unsafe environments; (3) to upgrade and equip all public housing with cutting-edge materials, infrastructure, and all-electric appliances made in the United States in order to improve energy efficiency, water quality, and material living standards in public housing and to support United States manufacturing; (4) to modernize public housing laws in order to maximize tenant participation and management by low- and very low-income individuals in the rehabilitation, upgrade, and transition of public housing through education, training, and jobs; and (5) to transition the entire public housing stock of the United States, as swiftly and seamlessly as possible, into highly energy-efficient homes that produce on-site, or procure, enough carbon-free renewable energy to meet total energy consumption annually. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Community resilience center The term community resilience center means a communal space in public housing that is used as a cooling center, heating center, or disaster relief center during extreme weather. (2) Eligible entity The term eligible entity means— (A) a public housing agency; (B) an Indian tribe or a tribally designated housing entity that is eligible to receive assistance under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 ( 25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.); and (C) the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, as defined in section 801 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 ( 25 U.S.C. 4221 ). (3) Indian tribe