Bill to Use Federal Land for Affordable Housing

White House announces new actions to repurpose public lands ...

On July 16, the White House announced new steps to lower housing costs by repurposing underutilized public lands to increase housing supply.

'Sitting empty': Vast expanse of federal land eyed for new housing

Curtis, who is running for the Senate this year, has introduced a bill to enable the sale of federal lands to states and local governments to ...

Build housing on federal land? Both Harris and Trump are in favor.

Bipartisan members of Congress in Western states — along with state and local leaders — also are eyeing some lands, such as those under the ...

Unlocking Surplus Public Land for Affordable Housing - HUD User

In July 2024, the White House announced new actions to repurpose and make available federally owned land for affordable housing development. As ...

Biden-Harris Administration announces new actions to build more ...

The Bureau of Land Management announces the sale of 20 acres of public lands at $100 per acre for the construction of affordable housing ...

Bill to Use Federal Land for Affordable Housing: HOUSES Act of 2022

This isn't about employees, but is of interest. U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis has co-sponsored legislation that would allow federal land to be ...

Will the Federal Government Enact Land Use Reforms in 2024? A ...

The Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act (AHCIA), a tax bill which aims to boost construction of homes for low-income households, now has ...

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Major New Actions to ...

The President is calling on all federal agencies to assess surplus federal land that can be repurposed to build more affordable housing across ...

Public lands for housing is having a moment with Republicans and ...

With proposals to use public land for affordable housing development gaining steam with both Republicans and Democrats in Washington D.C., some ...

New bill would convert unused government buildings into affordable ...

New House legislation introduced Tuesday would aim to repurpose underutilized government facilities into affordable housing projects.

U.S. Forest Service loses ability to lease land for affordable housing ...

Under the 2018 Farm Bill — a legislative package that funds and supports food, agricultural and rural development programs — the U.S. Forest ...

STATEMENT: Biden administration shows how to carefully use ...

The proposal is the first under an agreement between the Housing and Urban Development and Interior departments that allows for the targeted ...

Reps. Schiff, Gomez Introduce Bill to Convert Unused ...

Reps. Schiff, Gomez Introduce Bill to Convert Unused & Underutilized Government Facilities to Affordable Housing. Washington, D.C.— Today, ...

Repurposing Publicly Owned Surplus Land for Affordable Housing

law in 2014 and requires government entities using the preference to set ... “Use of Federal Real Property To. Assist the Homeless: Revisions to ...

Leveraging Government-Owned Land for Affordable Housing

By leveraging their land holdings through ground leases with developers, governments can facilitate the expedited development of new affordable ...

S.32 - Choice in Affordable Housing Act of 2023 - Congress.gov

This bill establishes programs and grants to incentivize landlord participation in the Housing Choice Voucher program (ie, Section 8 tenant-based housing ...

The Federal Government Owns a Lot of Land. We Should Use it To ...

Though, to be fair, building a meaningful amount of housing on Federal land would require an Act of Congress and money allocated in the budget.

Grabbing public land in the name of housing - High Country News

open limited portions of Federal Lands to allow for new home construction … and cut unnecessary Regulations that raise housing costs.” “To help ...

Selling Public Lands Is Not the Solution to America's Housing ...

The bill seeks to streamline the transfer of public lands to state and local governments, which could then use those lands to develop affordable ...

The West has an affordable housing crisis. Can public land help?

Senator Lee's HOUSES Act would allow local and state governments to nominate unlimited tracts of unprotected federal public land to be conveyed ...