; 112 Stat. 2518) prohibited public housing authorities from using any Federal capital funding or operating funding to develop net new housing. (10) More than a decade after the enactment of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 ( Public Law 105–276 ; 112 Stat. 2518), the number of public housing units nationally began to steadily decline, as more units were torn down than rebuilt. (11) With the exception of an infusion of funding from the economic stimulus legislation in 2009—the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ( Public Law 111–5