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Official title: To authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to eligible entities for use to eliminate blight and assist in neighborhood revitalization, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Frank J. Mrvan · Last progress November 20, 2025
The bill directs federal funds to rehabilitate blighted properties and expand affordable housing through competitive grants, improving neighborhoods and local capacity but limiting some applicants via match requirements, use restrictions, and caps on administrative support.
Low-income communities will receive federal grants to remove blight and rehabilitate vacant properties, improving neighborhood conditions and safety for residents.
Residents in redeveloped sites could gain more affordable rental and owner-occupied housing as blighted properties are converted to housing.
Local governments and land banks can access flexible federal funds to coordinate redevelopment, enabling faster remediation and reuse of vacant properties.
Local governments and nonprofits must provide at least 15% matching funds, which may prevent smaller jurisdictions and resource-strapped nonprofits from applying or fully participating.
Grants cannot be used to acquire occupied homes, limiting tools to address occupied-but-substandard properties or to assemble land for comprehensive redevelopment.
Administrative and technical assistance funding caps (10% for admin, 5% for technical assistance) may constrain recipients' ability to build capacity and effectively deliver programs.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes HUD competitive grants for blight elimination and neighborhood revitalization in low-income communities, with match and planning requirements.
Authorizes HUD to award competitive grants to States, local governments, and multi-jurisdictional entities to eliminate blight and carry out neighborhood revitalization activities in low-income communities. Grants may fund demolition, deconstruction, site clearance, vacant-land management, renovation of blighted structures, and construction or preservation of affordable housing; recipients must meet matching, planning, and use restrictions.