HOMEFRONT Act of 2025

This bill would remove most federal historic preservation review from many military housing units. It says that if a building is used for barracks or family housing on a base when the law takes effect, the usual National Historic Preservation Act rules would not apply to it. The Defense Secretary could still keep a very small share of units under those rules, but no more than one-tenth of one percent of all military housing units. Even places already on the National Register of Historic Places as of January 20, 2025 would still be exempt from those rules.

It also protects military tenants in privatized housing by banning nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) tied to leasing or housing services. Any NDA like that is invalid, except when used to settle a lawsuit. This applies even to NDAs signed in the past.

Key points

• Who is affected: Service members and families in on-base and privatized military housing; the Department of Defense; private military housing landlords.
• What changes: Most military housing is exempt from federal historic preservation rules; the Secretary of Defense can keep up to 0.1% of units under those rules; sites already on the National Register as of 1/20/2025 stay exempt; NDAs with tenants are banned and retroactively invalid (except for lawsuit settlements).
• When: Effective upon enactment; the NDA rule applies regardless of when the NDA was signed.