21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is a broad housing-policy package. It changes HUD, USDA, VA, FHA, public housing, rural housing, housing counseling, disaster recovery, manufactured housing, modular housing, small-dollar mortgage, voucher, and community-development authorities. The bill is aimed at expanding housing supply, reducing financing and regulatory barriers, modernizing reviews, improving disaster recovery, and coordinating federal housing programs.
The bill also reaches beyond ordinary housing programs. It adds investor and public-housing oversight provisions, makes changes affecting veterans and disability-benefit income treatment, requires HUD-USDA-VA coordination, directs GAO studies, and includes a Federal Reserve central bank digital currency restriction.
Who Benefits and How
Affordable housing developers, homebuilders, modular housing manufacturers, manufactured housing producers, rural housing developers, public housing agencies, and community development organizations benefit from broader eligible uses, streamlined reviews, updated standards, and new or revised grant and financing tools. Rural borrowers and rural housing applicants benefit from USDA program improvements.
Homebuyers, mortgage borrowers, voucher holders, renters, veterans receiving disability benefits, and households using HUD or USDA housing programs benefit where the bill expands counseling, small-dollar mortgage access, voucher landlord participation, income-treatment protections, and interagency coordination. Disaster-affected communities benefit from the Long-Term Disaster Recovery Fund and CDBG disaster recovery structure.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Agriculture, Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Housing Administration, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Government Accountability Office, Federal Reserve Board, public housing monitors, and public housing receivers must implement new programs, studies, guidance, reports, memoranda, oversight duties, and restrictions.
Housing investors, mortgage lenders, financial institutions, public housing agencies, landlords, and regulated housing market actors face new disclosure, program, oversight, or eligibility conditions depending on the section. Federal taxpayers and appropriators bear the fiscal burden of expanded or revised grants, pilots, studies, and administrative programs even though the bill includes a no-additional-funds clause.
Key Provisions
- Directs HUD to support housing supply frameworks and issue point-access block building guidelines.
- Requires HUD and USDA to coordinate environmental review treatment for covered housing programs.
- Revises HOME, rural housing, voucher, public housing, and community development authorities.
- Updates manufactured housing and modular housing rules.
- Creates or studies FHA small-dollar mortgage tools and housing counseling reforms.
- Excludes certain veterans disability benefits from covered housing income calculations.
- Requires HUD, USDA, and VA interagency coordination on housing programs.
- Creates disaster recovery reforms through a Long-Term Disaster Recovery Fund and CDBG disaster recovery grants.
- Adds GAO studies, oversight provisions, investor-related rules, and public housing monitor or receiver provisions.
- Restricts Federal Reserve central bank digital currency activity in the housing package.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Revises federal housing, mortgage, rural housing, public housing, veterans housing, disaster recovery, manufactured housing, modular housing, and community-development authorities to expand supply and alter program administration.
Key Policy Areas
Housing, Mortgage Finance, Rural Development, Veterans, Disaster Recovery
Primary Purpose
Revises federal housing, mortgage, rural housing, public housing, veterans housing, disaster recovery, manufactured housing, modular housing, and community-development authorities to expand supply and alter program administration.
Policy Domains
Housing supply, finance, rural housing, veterans housing, and disaster recovery
Identified Gains
- Affordable housing developers
- Homebuilders
- Modular housing manufacturers
- Manufactured housing producers
- Rural housing developers
- Public housing agencies
- Mortgage borrowers
- Veterans receiving disability benefits
- Voucher holders
- Disaster-affected communities
Identified Costs
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- Federal Housing Administration
- Federal Housing Finance Agency
- Government Accountability Office
- Federal Reserve Board
- Housing investors
- Mortgage lenders
- Public housing monitors
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
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Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Affordable housing and community development projects financed by public-welfare investments, Affordable housing developers, Affordable housing developers benefiting from zoning and planning reforms
Eligible housing agencies running escrow accounts, Federal homelessness program administrators, Government Accountability Office analysts
Community development block grant recipients, Local governments and Indian tribes, Local governments and tribal grantees seeking pattern-book funding
Positive-direction: Local governments and Indian tribes, Local governments and tribal grantees seeking pattern-book funding, Participating jurisdictions using HOME funds, State and local HOME grantees administering small projects, State, regional, and local entities seeking housing planning grants
Negative-direction: Community development block grant recipients, New York City Housing Authority management, State manufactured-housing regulators
HUD-assisted families enrolled in the escrow pilot, Low-income families in Section 8 or public housing, Low-income families in assisted housing
Public housing residents affected by agency procurement transparency, Public housing residents affected by prolonged federal oversight, Residential tenants in federally assisted rental housing
Covered public housing agencies, Federal public housing monitors, Landlords participating in Section 8
Positive-direction: Landlords participating in Section 8
Negative-direction: Covered public housing agencies, Federal public housing monitors, Public housing receivers
Homebuyers receiving HUD-supported counseling, Homebuyers seeking small-dollar mortgages, Mortgage applicants who may qualify for VA loans
Lenders participating in FHA multifamily mortgage insurance programs, Mortgage lenders and housing enterprises using the standard application, Mortgage lenders participating in FHA small-dollar lending
Positive-direction: Lenders participating in FHA multifamily mortgage insurance programs, Mortgage lenders participating in FHA small-dollar lending
Negative-direction: Mortgage lenders and housing enterprises using the standard application
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, or Veterans Affairs as applicable
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Housing for which monthly payment is not more than 30 percent of monthly household income.
A fund used for community development block grant disaster recovery grants.
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