Healthy Food Financing Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2025

This bill continues and expands funding to bring healthy, affordable food to neighborhoods that lack it. It backs the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which helps grocery stores and other food businesses open or grow in underserved urban and rural areas. The program offers loans, grants, and expert help so people can buy fresh food closer to home .

It sets steady, guaranteed funding that grows over time: $25 million in 2025, $30 million in 2026, $35 million in 2027, $40 million in 2028, and $50 million in 2029 and every year after. These funds come from the Commodity Credit Corporation and are meant to keep projects moving without yearly budget delays .

• Who is affected: People in underserved communities, plus eligible healthy food retailers and food supply chain businesses that serve them .
• What changes: The program gets mandatory, rising funding and continues to provide loans, grants, and technical assistance to improve access to fresh, healthy, affordable food fileciteturn0file0turn0file1.
• When: Funding starts in fiscal year 2025 and increases each year, with $50 million set for 2029 and every year after fileciteturn0file0turn0file1.