[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2494 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2494

 To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to annually 
     submit to the Congress a report that analyzes State and local 
strategies, activities, and plans that promote affordable housing, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 31, 2025

   Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Financial Services

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to annually 
     submit to the Congress a report that analyzes State and local 
strategies, activities, and plans that promote affordable housing, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The United States is experiencing a housing crisis. The 
        nation is short millions of housing units. Renters are spending 
        more than one-third of their salary on housing costs and buyers 
        are unable to find affordable housing. Our housing stock is 
        short by millions. No State has been left untouched.
            (2) The role of regulating the various factors that 
        contribute to the affordable housing crisis largely rests with 
        States.
            (3) States have engaged in a variety of efforts to address 
        this crisis including reforming zoning rules.
            (4) To best determine how the Federal Government can 
        support effective solutions to the crisis, Congress must 
        identify which State efforts are successfully addressing the 
        crisis.
            (5) The regulatory barriers clearinghouse serves as a 
        national repository for information regarding State and local 
        laws, regulations and policies related to affordable housing 
        and the effects of those laws, regulations, and policies on 
        affordable housing. The clearinghouse also collects State and 
        local efforts that promote affordable housing.
            (6) The clearinghouse currently is geared toward providing 
        such information to and for use by State and local governments.
            (7) Congress could utilize the information provided in the 
        clearinghouse to support a Federal response to the affordable 
        housing crisis.

SEC. 2. REGULATORY BARRIERS CLEARINGHOUSE REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Section 1205 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 
(42 U.S.C. 12705d) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Reports to Congress.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall annually submit to the Congress a report that 
includes the following elements:
            ``(1) An analysis of information described in subsection 
        (a).
            ``(2) Policy recommendations, based on the analysis 
        described in paragraph (1), that the Congress may use to 
        support the implementation of successful State and local 
        strategies, activities, and plans that promote affordable 
        housing.''.
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