Last progress September 4, 2025 (3 months ago)
Introduced on September 4, 2025 by Mark R. Warner
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
This bill aims to help community lenders keep making loans in neighborhoods that need them most. It lets a federal fund give money to organizations to buy loans from community lenders, provide guarantees, and offer other credit support. This gives those lenders more cash on hand so they can make more small business, home, and community loans, including for affordable housing . The fund can support groups whose main purpose is community development, even if they aren’t themselves community lenders, with priority for groups that have experience, can grow lending by drawing in private dollars, and will serve places with big unmet needs or broad areas of the country .
Money earned from certain past federal investments (like interest and dividends) must be put back into this fund to support more lending and technical help. The Treasury must report each year through 2028 on how much was done, including loans bought from community lenders, support for affordable housing, and the impact on lender competition and access to cash .