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119-hr-3215119th CongressWALLET

Utilizing National Land for Opportunities and Community Key (UNLOCK) Housing Act

Sponsored By: Representative Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]

Introduced

Summary

This bill would unlock federal land for affordable housing and create a joint HUD‑Interior task force to find, speed, and report on sites suited for low‑income families.

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  • Families: Would allow development, operation, and upkeep of affordable housing on federal land for families defined as extremely low‑income, very low‑income, or low‑income in federal law, making more land available for building and running affordable units.
  • Federal agencies and land use: Would add affordable housing as a public purpose under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act and require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of the Interior to form a Joint Task Force within 30 days to identify underused federal parcels and streamline land transfer processes.
  • Planning and budgets for states and localities: Would require the Task Force to evaluate and quantify costs that federal and state governments face because of a lack of affordable housing and to send Congress an annual report on its work.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

More affordable housing on federal land

This bill would treat affordable housing on federal land as a public purpose. Projects would need to serve mainly extremely low, very low, or low income families, as defined by federal law. This could make more federal land available for building and running affordable homes. The change would take effect when the bill is enacted.

Task force to find housing land

The Interior Department and the housing department would create a joint task force within 30 days. It would find underused federal land for homes and speed up land transfers. It would push policies to increase affordable housing. It would study what the lack of affordable housing costs federal and state governments. The task force would report to Congress every year and end 10 years after enactment.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4]

NV • D

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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