No Free Rent for Freeloaders Act of 2025

This bill makes HUD track and report when public housing tenants are not meeting required community service or self-sufficiency rules. Each year, HUD’s Inspector General must figure out how many tenants are not following these rules and total up how much federal subsidy went to the units they lived in, then publish that dollar amount by September 30 in the Federal Register .

The next year, HUD loses that same amount from its Management and Administration budget (usually on October 15, or when Congress passes HUD’s funding if that’s later). This creates a budget penalty on HUD for not ensuring compliance with the rules.

Key points

• Who is affected: Public housing tenants, HUD, and local public housing agencies.
• What changes: HUD must measure and publish the cost of noncompliance each year, and then that amount is cut from HUD’s management budget the following year.
• When: The report is due by September 30 each fiscal year; the budget cut happens the following October 15 (or when HUD’s funding bill is enacted, if later).