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Official title: To amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to expand certain service coordinator programs, and for other purposes.
Introduced August 26, 2025 by Adam Smith · Last progress August 26, 2025
The bill expands and targets federal funding for on-site service coordinators and supportive housing services—improving access for seniors, people with disabilities, and rural low-income residents—but does so with modest, time-limited funding that raises federal costs, may leave many recipients without support, and depends on continued appropriations and administrative implementation to sustain benefits.
Residents of federally assisted and rural low-income housing (particularly seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income renters) gain funded on-site service coordinators who help them access health, social, and supportive services to improve housing stability and aging in place.
Owners and operators of eligible properties (Section 202, Section 515, LIHTC, and similar) receive competitive grant funding to hire coordinators (salary, fringe, training, admin) for multiyear terms, reducing local operating cost pressure for supportive services.
The bill directs priority for assistance to projects serving elderly/disabled residents and to properties in persistent poverty or underserved rural areas, concentrating limited resources toward higher-need communities.
Taxpayers face increased federal spending from multiple authorized appropriations (authorizations and specified FY amounts across programs), raising the federal cost of housing supports without identified offsets.
The funding, as authorized, is limited in scale relative to need (e.g., only a small number of properties funded, modest annual authorizations like $10M or single-year $37M), leaving many eligible properties and residents without services and creating uneven access.
Programs rely on annual appropriations and short competitive grant terms (commonly three years), so coordinator positions and supports may lapse or be inconsistent if Congress does not continue funding or properties lose competitiveness.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Establishes competitive grant programs and annual funding authorizations to fund service coordinators in federally assisted, tax-credit, and rural housing properties.
Creates and expands competitive grant programs across HUD, HHS/HRSA, and USDA to fund service coordinators for residents of federally assisted, low-income, rural, and tax-credit housing. It sets annual authorization levels for multiple programs, defines eligible uses and applicants, requires training and reporting, and establishes priority rules for rural and elderly/disabled populations. Also makes an incomplete amendment to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness statute (text to be inserted not provided), and adds multi-year funding authorizations for related HUD programs through FY2026–FY2030.