# 119-hr-9281: DASH Act 119-hr-9281, DASH Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4] (D-OR); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-08-22). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9281 - As of: 2026-08-22 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: 119-hr-9281 - Congress: 119 - Title: DASH Act - Status: introduced - Introduced: 2026-06-11 - Sponsor: Rep. Hoyle, Val T. [D-OR-4] (D-OR) - Cosponsors: 8 - Policy area: Housing and Community Development - Touches household money: yes - Last recorded action: 2026-08-22 ## Summary **Creates a national program to deliver rental vouchers to people experiencing homelessness** and would expand tax incentives and grants to build and preserve affordable housing. It pairs vouchers and supportive services with new credits and funding to push more units into the market and reduce family and youth homelessness. - Families, children, and youth: Prioritizes unaccompanied homeless youth and families with children for vouchers and supportive services, with 250,000 vouchers targeted in FY2026 and 400,000 per year thereafter until needs are met. - Public housing agencies and service providers: Requires PHAs to partner with child welfare and homeless continuums, use HMIS data, and hire service coordinators who can meet each household at least 30 minutes weekly; authorizes $300.0 million per year for FY2026–FY2031 for administrative fees and $500.0 million for capacity building in FY2026–FY2027. - Developers, renters, and homebuyers: Creates a Middle‑Income Housing Credit, expands the Low‑Income Housing Tax Credit for buildings with on‑site supportive services, and adds a renters credit, a Neighborhood Homes owner‑occupied credit, plus a refundable first‑time homebuyer credit up to $15,000. It also funds modular construction pilots and zoning reform grants to speed housing production. *Would increase federal spending by authorizing major new outlays, including roughly $10.0 billion per year for the Housing Trust Fund, $4.0 billion for zoning grants, $300.0 million per year for admin fees, $500.0 million for capacity building, and funding for hundreds of thousands of vouchers.* ## Cosponsors (8) - Rep. Carbajal, Salud O. [D-CA-24] (D-CA), 2026-06-11T00:00:00.000Z - Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large] (D-DC), 2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. García, Jesús G. "Chuy" [D-IL-4] (D-IL), 2026-06-25T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Balint, Becca [D-VT-At Large] (D-VT), 2026-07-02T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6] (D-OR), 2026-07-13T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Thanedar, Shri [D-MI-13] (D-MI), 2026-07-15T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Randall, Emily [D-WA-6] (D-WA), 2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z - Rep. Watson Coleman, Bonnie [D-NJ-12] (D-NJ), 2026-08-20T00:00:00.000Z ## Provisions PRIA read - More vouchers and PHA support: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would create a new Rental Vouchers for the Homeless program run by public housing agencies. It would start with 250,000 vouchers in FY2026 and 400,000 vouchers each year after until fewer are needed. PHAs would be required to provide or coordinate low‑barrier supportive service… - Homeowner tax relief changes: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would let homeowners claim a deduction for a qualified loss on sale of a main home (capped at $100,000, $50,000 MFS) if owned and used 2 of the last 5 years, with a MAGI phase‑down above $200,000. It would permanently exclude qualified discharged principal residence debt from g… - Refundable first‑time homebuyer credit: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would create a refundable credit equal to 20% of the purchase price of a principal residence, capped at $15,000, for first‑time homebuyers in taxable years after enactment. The credit would phase down if the purchase price is above 60% of the conforming loan limit and would shr… - Big housing trust fund boost: benefit, high. If enacted, the bill would give the Housing Trust Fund $10 billion each year from FY2026 through FY2036 to buy land and build or rehab rental homes for very low‑ and extremely low‑income households. It would also authorize $65 million per year for FY2026–FY2031 for State administrative needs, with… - Grants to push pro‑housing zoning: benefit, high. If enacted, HUD would run a competitive grant program paying jurisdictions that adopt pro‑housing zoning and planning changes. The program would be funded at $4 billion per year for FY2026–FY2031 and would set minimum award sizes that grow with jurisdiction population. Jurisdictions using certain p… - Permanent homeless education funding: benefit, medium. If enacted, the bill would make the McKinney‑Vento homeless education appropriations permanently authorized, saying Congress may appropriate 'such sums as may be necessary' each year. The change would take effect on enactment but does not itself set a dollar amount. - Study on converting empty offices: benefit, low. If enacted, Treasury, HUD, USDA rural development, and OMB would produce a cost‑benefit study within six months. The study would analyze tax incentive designs for owners who sell vacant commercial buildings to public agencies for conversion to affordable housing, including nonrecognition of capital… - Modular housing pilot grants: benefit, low. If enacted, HUD would fund a pilot for modular affordable housing projects. Projects must keep units affordable for more than 20 years and the federal share would be capped at 75 percent of project cost. The pilot would be authorized at $2 million per year for FY2026–FY2031. - Neighborhood homes credit for buyers: mixed, high. If enacted, the Neighborhood Homes Credit would give credits to lower the cost of selling or repairing small homes in targeted census tracts. For affordable‑sale homes the credit would be the smallest of three tests (including up to 40% of eligible costs or a cap tied to national median new‑home pr… - New renters credit and payments: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would create a federal Renters Credit tied to State allocations and rental‑reduction agreements. Eligible tenants would be very low income (the greater of 30% of AMGI or the poverty line) and a building's certified units would be capped at the greater of 40% or 25 units. The Se… - New housing tax rules for developers: mixed, high. If enacted, the bill would create a new middle‑income housing tax credit and set rules for allocating and monitoring housing credits. It would change State housing credit formulas and set new set‑asides (an added rural 5% augmentation, a nonprofit middle‑income set‑aside, and an extremely low‑incom… ## Related bills - 119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026 - 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act - 119-hr-7973: Momnibus Act - 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025 - 119-hr-3069: Medicare for All Act - 119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026 ## Sources - [119-hr-9281 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/9281) ## Related - [119-hr-9877: Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9877) - [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-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151) - [119-hr-3069: Medicare for All Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3069) - [119-hr-7853: PrEP Access and Coverage Act of 2026](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7853) - [All bills in Congress](https://policyrisk.com/legislation) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-9281 (as of 2026-08-22).