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This bill expands “service coordinators” at affordable housing sites so residents can get help with health care, benefits, and other supports. It stops the housing agency from adding extra strings for properties that already qualify for this funding, while still allowing basic reporting and oversight. It requires owners to set aside at least $2,500 each year for service coordinator training and to report yearly on that training. It also authorizes $225 million a year from 2026–2030 to run these programs and continue existing service grants for residents in federally assisted housing.
It creates several new or expanded grant programs. For senior housing, it sets up competitive grants to hire service coordinators who assess resident needs, connect people to services, and support aging in place; funds can cover salaries, training, and related costs; grants last three years, and priority goes to buildings serving older adults or people with disabilities and to properties in high-poverty or underserved rural areas; residents cannot be forced to accept services. It boosts funds for services in public and Indian housing by $45 million each year from 2026–2030. It directs the health agency to award 150 grants to affordable housing properties that used the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, with three-year grants and $37 million authorized in 2026. For rural rental housing, it creates a similar three-year grant program through the agriculture department, with $10 million per year, priorities for elderly/disabled residents and high-poverty or underserved rural areas, and no requirement that tenants accept services. It also makes a change to Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, though details are not specified in the provided text.
Key points
Inserts a new section (designated 515A) after section 515 of Title V of the Housing Act of 1949 to establish a Rural Housing Service Coordinator Grant Program.
Adds a new subsection (f) authorizing appropriations to carry out this section.
Amends 20 U.S.C. 1087e(m)(3)(B)(i) by inserting text after the specified location; the section text provided does not include the content of the insertion.
Adds a new subsection (g) to 42 U.S.C. 13631 prohibiting the Secretary from subjecting covered federally assisted housing projects that are eligible to receive amounts to employ or retain a service coordinator to any additional requirements in exchange for such amounts, while allowing reasonable reporting, monitoring, or compliance activities.
Amends 12 U.S.C. 1701q(g)(3) by inserting additional text (specific insertion content not shown in provided section).
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced August 26, 2025 by Adam Smith · Last progress August 26, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House