# 119-hr-68: Housing Fairness Act of 2025

119-hr-68, Housing Fairness Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9] (D-TX); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-68
- Congress: 119
- Title: Housing Fairness Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-03
- Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9] (D-TX)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Housing and Community Development
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-21

## Summary

**This bill would create a nationwide HUD testing program to detect and document housing discrimination.** It would also fund enforcement, research, and local pilot projects aimed at discrimination that affects veterans, women, families with children, people with disabilities, and communities of color. - Families, renters, homebuyers, and mortgage applicants would get more systematic testing and data collection to expose differential treatment by race, sex, familial status, disability, or national origin. - Fair housing enforcement groups would receive bigger, targeted funding through the Fair Housing Initiatives Program with $42.5 million authorized per year and most of that money reserved for private enforcement work. - Public and private nonprofit organizations could get matching grants (50 percent non‑Federal match) to study causes and effects of discrimination and run pilot solutions, with $5.0 million authorized per year for those grants; grantees may not use funds for political advocacy. *This bill would authorize about $62.5 million per year for FY2024–2028 and thus increase federal spending by roughly that amount annually.*

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. Fletcher, Lizzie [D-TX-7] (D-TX), 2025-01-15T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- More enforcement money for fair housing: benefit, medium. If enacted, the government would provide $42.5 million each year for FY2024 through FY2028 to the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP). At least 75% of each year’s money would have to fund qualified private nonprofit enforcement work and no more than 10% could pay for education and outreach. HUD…
- Nationwide testing for housing and lending: benefit, low. If enacted, HUD would run a nationwide testing program to find and document discrimination in renting, buying, and mortgage lending based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability, or national origin. The program would get $15 million per year for FY2024 through FY2028. HUD would b…
- New grants to study housing discrimination: benefit, low. If enacted, HUD would run a competitive matching grant program with $5 million each year for FY2024 through FY2028 to fund studies and pilot projects on causes and effects of housing discrimination, including impacts on veterans. Grant applicants would have to provide a 50% non‑Federal match (cash…
- Limits on political uses of funds: cost, low. If enacted, the bill would bar any funds made available under this Act from being used for political activities, political advocacy, or lobbying as defined by OMB Circular A‑122. Recipients could not use funds for travel to engage in political activities or for preparing or advising on tax returns.…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-6644: 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
- 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act
- 119-hr-6771: Housing Crisis Response Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026
- 119-hres-1058: Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implement a Transgender Bill of Rights to protect and codify the rights of transgender…

## Sources
- [119-hr-68 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/68)

## Related
- [119-hr-6644: 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6644)
- [119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7973)
- [119-hr-6771: Housing Crisis Response Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-6771)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853)
- [119-hres-1058: Recognizing that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop and implem…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-1058)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-68 (as of 2026-09-21).