Naomi Schwartz and Susan Rose Safe Parking Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Naomi Schwartz and Susan Rose Safe Parking Act amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act so Emergency Solutions Grant funds can support safe parking. It adds maintenance, operation, insurance, and utilities related to safe parking as eligible activities. It defines safe parking as an activity that gives homeless persons living in vehicles, including motor homes, a safe place to park overnight to facilitate transition to stable housing and provides rehousing and supportive services. The bill therefore converts safe parking from a local workaround into an explicitly eligible federal homelessness grant activity.
Who Benefits and How
People living in vehicles benefit because ESG funds could support safe overnight parking tied to rehousing and supportive services. Homeless service providers benefit because safe parking operations, utilities, insurance, and maintenance become eligible grant uses. Local governments running ESG programs benefit from clearer authority to fund safe parking programs. Supportive service organizations benefit from a federal definition that links safe parking to stable housing transitions.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HUD homelessness program staff must administer safe parking as an eligible Emergency Solutions Grant activity. ESG grantees must ensure funded safe parking provides overnight parking plus rehousing and supportive services. Safe parking operators must manage site maintenance, operations, insurance, utilities, and service coordination. Federal taxpayers bear the cost if more ESG funds are used for safe parking activities.
Key Provisions
- Adds safe parking maintenance, operation, insurance, and utilities as ESG eligible activities.
- Defines safe parking for homeless persons living in vehicles, including motor homes.
- Requires safe parking to facilitate transition to stable housing.
- Requires rehousing and supportive services as part of the safe parking activity.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Makes safe parking an eligible Emergency Solutions Grant activity covering maintenance, operation, insurance, utilities, rehousing, and supportive services for people living in vehicles.
Key Policy Areas
Homelessness, Housing, Federal Grants
Primary Purpose
Makes safe parking an eligible Emergency Solutions Grant activity covering maintenance, operation, insurance, utilities, rehousing, and supportive services for people living in vehicles.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- People living in vehicles
- Homeless service providers
- Local governments running ESG programs
- Supportive service organizations
Identified Costs
- HUD homelessness program staff
- ESG grantees
- Safe parking operators
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Carbajal (for himself, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Vargas, and Mr. …
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
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Homeless service providers, Safe parking operators
Local governments running ESG programs
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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