Bill · H.R. 68· House(119-HR-68)
Housing Fairness Act of 2025
- Introduced
- 1/3/2025
- Last activity
- 1/3/2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
- Sponsored by
- Al Green
- Cosponsors
- - 1 - 0
- Introduced
- In Committee
What this bill would do
This bill, known as the "Housing Fairness Act of 2025," seeks to prevent housing discrimination through nationwide testing. It directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to conduct programs to detect differences in how people are treated when renting, buying, or refinancing mortgages based on protected characteristics. The legislation also increases funding for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program. Additionally, it establishes a competitive matching grant program for studies on the causes and effects of housing discrimination and segregation. It authorizes significant appropriations for these various efforts through the fiscal year s 2024 through 2028.
Yes· 3 of 12
Would Black Americans be better off under this?+7
The bill provides resources to detect and remedy racial discrimination in the housing and mortgage markets.
Would Hispanic Americans be better off under this?+7
The bill uses national origin and race as criteria for detecting discriminatory housing practices.
Would people with disabilities be better off under this?+7
The bill empowers the detection of discrimination based on disability status in housing and mortgage markets.
The opposite
No question was scored the opposite.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Detection of Discrimination: The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will conduct nationwide testing to detect and document differences in treatment regarding renting, purchasing housing, or obtaining/refinancing mortgages based on race, color, religion, sex, familial status, disability status, or national origin (Section 2(a)).
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Measuring Market Trends: The testing program is designed to measure how prevalent discriminatory practices are across the entire housing and mortgage lending markets (Section 2(a)(2)).
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Enforcement of Rights: Results from the testing can be used by federal agencies, state or local governments, and certain nonprofit organizations to start investigations or enforcement actions to fix discriminatory practices (Section 2(e)).
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Research and Solutions: Through a competitive matching grant program, organizations can conduct studies on the causes and effects of housing discrimination and implement pilot projects to test solutions to prevent or alleviate these issues (Section 5(a)).
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Increased Program Funding: The bill increases the authorization of funds for the Fair Housing Initiatives Program to $42,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2024 through 2028 (Section 3(a)(2)(1)).
Potential Negative Impacts for People
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Funding Restrictions on Organizations: There are no explicit negative impacts described for individuals; however, the bill specifies that none of the funds provided may be used for political activities, political advocacy, or lobbying (Section 6).
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Grant Requirements: Organizations seeking grants for housing studies must be able to provide matching non-Federal funds for 50 percent of the total grant amount (Section 5(b)(2)).
Groups and Interests Ranking
Every group the model scored this bill for, from -10 to +10. Hover a score for the reason it gave.
- Demographic And Interest Groups
- Good For African Americans+7Good For Hispanic Americans+7Good For People With Disabilities+7Good For Low Income Households+5Good For Veterans+5Good For Women+5Good For Children+4
- Social Issues And Justice
- Improves Disability Rights+7Improves Gender Equality+7Improves Racial Equity+7Improves Affordable Housing+5Improves Poverty Reduction+4
- 1/15/2025
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 1/3/2025
- Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
- Introduced in House
Lizzie FletcherDemocrat · Texas