# 119-hr-3215: Utilizing National Land for Opportunities and Community Key (UNLOCK) Housing Act

119-hr-3215, Utilizing National Land for Opportunities and Community Key (UNLOCK) Housing Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4] (D-NV); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-3215
- Congress: 119
- Title: Utilizing National Land for Opportunities and Community Key (UNLOCK) Housing Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-05-06
- Sponsor: Rep. Horsford, Steven [D-NV-4] (D-NV)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Housing and Community Development
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## 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. - 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.

## Provisions PRIA read

- More affordable housing on federal land: benefit, medium. 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…
- Task force to find housing land: benefit, medium. 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…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-5658: Child Care for Every Community Act
- 119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act
- 119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-3215 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3215)

## Related
- [119-hr-6900: American Affordability Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6900)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-5658: Child Care for Every Community Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5658)
- [119-hr-3971: Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3971)
- [119-hr-2725: Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2725)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3215 (as of 2025-12-21).