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The bill creates a clear, federally enforceable right for immigrants to buy property nationwide, strengthening immigrant property rights while reducing state and local control and raising the risk of increased litigation and local security conflicts.
Immigrants (non-citizens) can purchase real property in U.S. states and territories without being barred by citizenship-based restrictions.
Immigrants (and others enforcing the right) gain a federal enforcement mechanism—the Attorney General can act—to create uniform protection of property purchase rights across jurisdictions.
Immigrants harmed by attempted enforcement can sue in federal court and seek injunctions to stop enforcement, providing a private remedy and faster relief.
States and territories lose the ability to restrict property sales based on citizenship, reducing local control over land use, housing policy, and community standards.
The availability of federal enforcement and private suits could increase litigation against states, raising legal costs for state and local governments and ultimately taxpayers.
Federal enforcement and private lawsuits may interfere with sensitive local or national-security concerns (for example near certain installations) if the bill lacks narrowly tailored exceptions.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 14, 2026 by Al Green · Last progress January 14, 2026
Preempts any State, District of Columbia, or U.S. territory law that bars or limits a person from buying real property because of the buyer’s citizenship. The bill lets the U.S. Attorney General enforce that preemption and gives an individual harmed by attempted enforcement of a preempted law the right to sue the State, District, or territory in federal court and seek an injunction to stop enforcement.