Bill Details
HR.2525 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-03-31 - Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced Date
2025-03-31
Policy Area
Housing and Community Development
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This bill would direct the federal government to provide $2 billion in housing voucher funding for areas where the population has grown quickly and housing costs are likely harder to meet. The money would go to public housing agencies to help more low-income households pay rent, especially in places where current voucher funding has not kept up with population growth and local housing needs. In simple terms, the bill aims to make housing help fairer for communities that have had rapid growth and may be short on rental assistance.
- It would add a new housing voucher program for high-growth population areas under the Section 8 housing law.
- The money would be used for tenant-based rental assistance, which helps families rent homes in the private market.
- To qualify, a housing area must have more than 100,000 people and be among the 25 U.S. areas with the highest population growth from 2012 to 2022.
- The funding would be $2 billion for fiscal year 2025, and it would continue to be available in later years for voucher renewals until the money is used up.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2525 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2525
To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers
for high population areas, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 31, 2025
Ms. Titus (for herself, Mr. Stanton, and Ms. Ansari) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial
Services
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A BILL
To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers
for high population areas, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Housing Vouchers Fairness Act''.
SEC. 2. RENTAL VOUCHERS FOR HIGH GROWTH POPULATION AREAS.
Section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C.
1437f(o)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(23) Rental vouchers for high growth population areas.--
``(A) In general.--The Secretary shall, each year,
using amounts appropriated pursuant to subparagraph
(B), provide additional assistance in an equitable
manner to each eligible public housing agency for
tenant-based assistance, based on the population in the
area served by the public housing agency, the extent to
which existing voucher allocations of the eligible
public housing agency do not meet its housing
affordability needs, and historical shortfalls in
providing assistance to such eligible public housing
agency as a result of voucher formula allocations not
keeping pace with population growth over the period
identified in subparagraph (C)(ii).
``(B) Authorization of appropriations.--There are
authorized to be appropriated to Secretary to carry out
this paragraph $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2025,
which shall be available for renewals in each fiscal
year thereafter until expended.
``(C) Eligible public housing agency defined.--For
the purposes of this paragraph, the term `eligible
public housing agency' means a public housing agency
that administers Federal housing assistance for an area
that, as determined by the Secretary--
``(i) has a population of greater than
100,000; and
``(ii) is one of 25 areas in the United
States that experienced the highest population
growth between 2012 to 2022.''.
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