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HR7139119th CongressWALLET

Housing Choice Voucher Fairness Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Representative Kiley (CA)

Introduced

Summary

Protects portability of Housing Choice Vouchers across local agency areas. This bill would require the administering agency to continue tenant-based rental assistance when a family moves outside the agency's area unless the subsidy for the new unit is more than 10% higher than the subsidy when the family lived in the agency's area.

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  • Families: Voucher households would generally keep their tenant-based rental assistance when moving to another agency's area if the additional subsidy needed is 10% or less.
  • Public housing agencies: The administering agency would be required to continue payments for moves covered by this rule for assistance provided on or after Jan 1, 2026.
  • Moves to higher-cost areas: Families could move to higher-rent neighborhoods and retain their voucher so long as the out-of-area cost increase does not exceed 10%.

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Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Keep housing vouchers when moving

If enacted, you would be able to keep your tenant-based Housing Choice Voucher when you move outside your public housing agency's geographic area. This would apply to families who receive tenant-based assistance on or after January 1, 2026. Your public housing agency would have to continue paying rental help unless the rental-assistance cost for the new unit is more than 10% higher than the cost for your prior unit. An agency could stop assistance only when that new assistance cost exceeds the prior cost by over 10%.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Kiley (CA)

CA • I

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

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