Bill > HR6970

This bill, the Decent, Affordable, Safe Housing for All Act (DASH Act), aims to provide rental vouchers for the homeless and take other steps to increase and preserve affordable housing. The key provisions include: - Providing 250,000 new rental vouchers for the homeless in fiscal year 2023, increasing to 400,000 per year thereafter, with funding for supportive services and capacity building for public housing agencies. - Authorizing $10 billion per year for 10 years to the Housing Trust Fund to support the acquisition, construction, and rehabilitation of rental housing for extremely low- and very low-income households. - Establishing a modular construction pilot program to promote the use of modular construction techniques to build affordable housing. - Providing grants to encourage jurisdictions to adopt zoning and land use policies that support the development of more affordable housing. - Permanently authorizing appropriations for McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act grants. - Making changes to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, including increasing the credit for buildings serving extremely low-income households and prohibiting local approval and contribution requirements as selection criteria. - Creating a new "renters credit" and "middle-income housing credit" to provide tax incentives for the development and preservation of affordable rental housing. - Establishing a new "neighborhood homes credit" to support the rehabilitation and sale of owner-occupied homes in distressed communities. - Providing a refundable tax credit of up to $15,000 for first-time homebuyers. Overall, the bill aims to increase the supply of affordable rental and owner-occupied housing through a combination of direct funding, tax credits, and policy changes.

Budget and Finance, Health and Social Services

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6970/all-info