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Introduced March 27, 2025 by Rashida Tlaib · Last progress March 27, 2025
The bill aims to test and provide time‑limited cash housing assistance and targeted supportive services to homeless and at‑risk youth—potentially improving stability and yielding policy‑relevant evidence—while raising significant fiscal, privacy, administrative, and transparency tradeoffs that could limit reach and slow implementation.
Young people (18–29 and emancipated minors) experiencing or at risk of homelessness would receive defined monthly housing payments for up to 36 months (about $1,400 or adjusted 2‑bedroom FMR), improving housing stability and short‑term financial security.
Participants would get supportive services (housing navigation, financial coaching, workforce and educational services) alongside cash payments, increasing chances of longer‑term self‑sufficiency.
Recipients are protected from certain secondary harms: program payments are excluded from federal gross income, participation won’t reduce other federal/state/local benefits, and receipt won’t be treated as a public‑charge factor for immigration purposes.
The pilot’s scale (payments for up to ~105,000 participants for 36 months plus services and administrative costs) implies substantial federal spending that could increase taxes or require reallocations from other programs.
Creating and centralizing participant records and sharing data with external partners raises meaningful privacy and data‑security risks for vulnerable youth and other participants.
Complex cross‑referenced definitions, mandated reporting (e.g., McKinney‑Vento linkages), and procurement/coordination requirements could slow program start‑up and create administrative burdens for schools, nonprofits, and state agencies.
Based on analysis of 6 sections of legislative text.
Creates a 36‑month guaranteed‑income pilot for homeless youth (up to 105,000), a protected homelessness database, and a federally supervised study and advisory council changes.
Creates a federal pilot program that gives regular cash housing assistance to youth and young adults experiencing homelessness, builds a protected national database to identify and select participants, and studies whether guaranteed income reduces homelessness and improves health and economic outcomes. It requires an independent External Partner to evaluate the 36-month pilot (up to 105,000 people), sets data and privacy limits for the database, and changes membership and procedures for the federal homelessness council to advise program design and research.