Identifying Regulatory Barriers to Housing Supply Act
Sponsored By: Senator Young, Todd [R-IN]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would require Community Development Block Grant recipients to prepare plans that track and reduce overly burdensome land use policies. The aim is to push local zoning and permitting changes that increase housing supply and affordability.
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- Local grant recipients would have to submit a description for each listed land use policy at least once every 5 years, explaining whether they adopted it, how they plan to adopt it, and the expected benefits.
- The Department of Housing and Urban Development would create a standardized reporting form and offer assistance to communities on zoning challenges. The bill forbids using the reports to take enforcement actions.
- Jurisdictions would be prompted to consider specific reforms like allowing duplexes and accessory dwelling units, reducing parking minimums, streamlining permitting, enabling office-to-apartment conversions, and creating transit-oriented or higher-density zones.
- The effort targets more housing and affordability, aiming to ease burdens on cost-burdened households and support programs serving vulnerable populations.
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Local governments must report housing rules
If enacted, Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) recipients would have to file a standard report before getting certain grants. Reports must be submitted at least once every five years. Each report would describe, for each of 22 listed land-use policies, whether it was adopted in the prior five years, the recipient’s plan to adopt it, and how it would help the area. The 22 policies include duplexes and fourplexes in single-family zones, accessory dwelling units, reduced lot sizes, less parking, streamlined permitting, office-to-apartment conversions, transit-oriented zones, and others. Reports must follow a form the Secretary prescribes and start one year after enactment. Information in the report could not be used to start enforcement actions or bind how CDBG funds are spent.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Young, Todd [R-IN]
IN • R
Cosponsors
Sen. Schatz, Brian [D-HI]
HI • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Sen. Cramer, Kevin [R-ND]
ND • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN]
MN • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Sen. Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY]
WY • R
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Raphael Warnock
GA • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Roll Call Votes
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