HOME Investment Partnerships Program Reauthorization Bills
Congressional champions in the House and Senate have introduced legislation to reauthorize and strengthen the HOME Investment Partnerships program in the 119th Congress.
The HOME Investment Partnerships Program is HUD’s flagship affordable housing production program. For more than three decades, HOME has been one of the most effective and flexible tools state and local governments have to meet their affordable housing needs, including rental home production and preservation, single-family home construction, home rehabilitation, and tenant-based rental assistance.
NCSHA has endorsed two separate but complementary bills that strengthen this critical program so that it can better address the housing challenges of the 21st Century.
The HOME Reform Act of 2025 (H.R. 5878): Sponsored by House Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee Chairman Mike Flood (R-NE) and Ranking Member Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), this bill would make critical changes to HOME’s underlying statute as well as the application to the program of several cross-cutting federal requirements. Highlights of the bill are:
- Exempting HOME from Build America, Buy America requirements;
- Streamlining environmental review requirements for HOME developments;
- Adjusting the application of Section 3 requirements to reduce red tape;
- Making HOME a more effective tool for affordable homeownership and small rental properties; and
- Numerous other programmatic changes to increase flexibility and improve outcomes.
The HOME Investment Partnerships Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2025 (S. 948 / H.R. 2031): Sponsored by Senator Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Representative Joyce Beatty (D-OH), this bill would reauthorize HOME and make other modifications to strengthen program administration. Highlights of the bill are:
- Authorizing $5 billion in HOME funding for fiscal year (FY) 2025 — an increase from the $2.1 billion authorization level set for 1994 — and increasing the authorized funding level by five percent annually through FY 2029;
- Eliminating the duplicative and outdated 24-month commitment deadline for HOME funds;
- Streamlining property inspections for HOME-assisted properties to reduce duplicative and overlapping inspection requirements with other HUD programs;
- Establishing protections for active-duty service members to be able to sell their homes in the event of deployment or permanent change of station, or beneficiaries in the event a relative is deceased;
- Amending Community Housing Development Organization (CHDO) requirements to enable additional nonprofit organizations to qualify as eligible partners for state and local PJs; and
- Numerous other programmatic changes to increase flexibility and improve outcomes.
Most elements of this legislation are included in the ROAD to Housing Act, which is comprehensive affordable housing legislation sponsored by Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) with the support of the committee’s Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). The full Senate passed the ROAD to Housing Act as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026 on October 9, 2025.
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NCSHA chairs the HOME Coalition, a group of more than 800 national, state, and local entities that advocate in support of funding for the HOME program.
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