1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Rural Housing Voucher Enhancement Act of 2024 . 2. Findings and purposes (a) Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) Across the Nation, Americans are facing a shortage of affordable housing. (2) The right to a peaceful, affordable, dignified place to live is a right to which every American is entitled. (3) In rural communities, a lack of housing supply makes the loss of formerly affordable housing devastating to the community. (4) That is why the United States Department of Agriculture provides essential rural housing vouchers for those who lose their affordability guarantees. (5) The people served by this program are predominately seniors and Americans with disabilities. (6) The Department of Agriculture has been charged with a monumentally important task that it has generally excelled in performing, especially considering it operates with far less funding than it needs. (7) Nevertheless, there are Americans who fall through the cracks and face housing instability as a result. (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are as follows: (1) To provide the Department of Agriculture with the tools necessary to ensure everyone entitled to a rural housing voucher remains housed. (2) To clearly establish a standard that it is unacceptable for any person who is eligible for and chooses to use a rural housing voucher to not be able to fully use their voucher. (3) To make clear, de facto and de jure, that giving full force to rural housing vouchers is a whole-of-Government effort to guarantee that housing is a human right. 3. Definitions For purposes of this Act the following definitions shall apply: (1) Rural housing voucher The term rural housing voucher means a voucher for rental assistance issued by the Secretary of Agriculture pursuant to title V of the Housing Act of 1949 ( 42 U.S.C. 1471 et seq. ) to a tenant of a multifamily property previously financed with a loan made or insured under section 515 of such title ( 42 U.S.C. 1485 ) or section 514 of such title ( 42