Affordable Housing Barriers Transparency Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act annual report requirement. Each HUD annual report must identify significant regulatory barriers to affordable housing, using the definition from section 1203 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, and must include discussion and analysis of how those barriers could be reduced or removed. The bill does not directly preempt local zoning or change funding formulas; it creates a recurring federal transparency and analysis requirement inside HUD’s annual reporting.
Who Benefits and How
Affordable housing developers, renters facing supply constraints, local housing reform advocates, state housing agencies, and congressional housing committees benefit from regular HUD identification and analysis of regulatory barriers that may raise costs or delay affordable housing.
Who Bears the Burden and How
HUD, local governments with restrictive housing rules, state housing officials, and annual-report staff must collect information, evaluate barriers, analyze reduction strategies, and publicly discuss regulatory obstacles in HUD’s annual report.
Key Provisions
- Requires HUD annual reports to identify significant regulatory barriers to affordable housing.
- Requires HUD to discuss and analyze how identified barriers could be reduced or removed.
- Uses the Housing and Community Development Act regulatory-barrier definition rather than creating a new local preemption rule.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Requires HUD’s annual report to identify significant regulatory barriers to affordable housing and discuss how to reduce or remove those barriers using the Housing and Community Development Act definition.
Key Policy Areas
Housing, Government Operations, Regulation
Primary Purpose
Requires HUD’s annual report to identify significant regulatory barriers to affordable housing and discuss how to reduce or remove those barriers using the Housing and Community Development Act definition.
Policy Domains
Bill-wide scope
Identified Gains
- Affordable housing developers
- Renters facing supply constraints
- Local housing reform advocates
- State housing agencies
- Congressional housing committees
Identified Costs
- HUD
- Local governments with restrictive housing rules
- State housing officials
- Annual-report staff
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced in House
Mr. Lawler introduced the following bill; which was referred to …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Affordable housing developers, Renters facing supply constraints
Congressional housing committees, HUD
Positive-direction: Congressional housing committees
Negative-direction: HUD
Local governments with restrictive housing rules
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "primary_beneficiaries"
- → Affordable housing developers, Renters facing supply constraints, Local housing reform advocates, State housing agencies, Congressional housing committees
- "primary_burden_bearers"
- → HUD, Local governments with restrictive housing rules, State housing officials, Annual-report staff
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