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Introduced December 11, 2025 by Adam Schiff · Last progress December 11, 2025
Creates and funds a broad federal effort to preserve and expand affordable and workforce rental housing, including new loan and grant funds for construction and conversions, large annual authorizations for multiple housing programs, and an increase of 1,000,000 tenant-based housing vouchers over 2026–2035. Adds prevailing-wage (Davis‑Bacon) and apprenticeship requirements to many federally funded housing construction projects, establishes a HUD Office of Eviction Prevention, funds community-based housing navigators, and creates an independent Interagency Council to coordinate a national affordable-housing strategy and produce an annual strategic plan.
The bill would substantially expand affordable housing supply, rental assistance, services for people experiencing homelessness, and worker training/pay, but does so with large new federal spending and labor/compliance rules that raise construction costs, administrative burdens, and risks of disadvantaging smaller providers or local priorities.
Low-income renters and people at risk of homelessness will receive access to up to 1,000,000 additional tenant-based housing vouchers over FY2026–2035, reducing housing cost burdens and homelessness risk.
Renters (especially those 60%–120% AMI), low-income households, and municipalities will gain substantially more affordable housing units through a combination of loan funds, block grants, competitive conversion grants, and dedicated annual appropriations for homeless and conversion projects.
People experiencing homelessness, seniors, and people with disabilities will gain expanded supportive housing and behavioral health services via increased Section 202/811 funding and dedicated SAMHSA grants/center for unhoused individuals.
All U.S. taxpayers face sizable new federal spending commitments (multi‑billion annual appropriations and 1,000,000 vouchers) that increase budgetary pressure and could raise the deficit or require offsets or program trade-offs.
Higher labor-cost rules (Davis‑Bacon prevailing wages and apprenticeship mandates) are likely to raise construction and conversion costs, slow project delivery, and reduce the number of housing units produced per dollar of federal funding.
State and local governments, grant recipients, and federal agencies will face expanded administrative, reporting, and compliance burdens (equity plans, apprenticeship rules, reporting, navigator standards) that could divert staff time and slow program implementation.