Senate Bills

The bill creates competitive HUD grants to convert vacant industrial properties into mixed-income housing, prioritizing local labor, historic preservation, and 30-year affordability. It also expands housing vouchers and temporary rental aid while requiring zoning responsibility, environmental compliance, and spending transparency.

Requires DHS to present Congress with a unified border-enforcement and asylum-processing plan, coordinate with border-area law enforcement, and improve immigration-status and release information sharing while preserving lawful asylum and humanitarian protections.

The bill creates competitive HUD grants for permanently affordable housing, resilient infrastructure, and voluntary disaster relocation in high-cost, disaster-prone communities. It prioritizes Native Hawaiian and long-term local residents, lower-income households, and projects with resident or tribal consultation.

Creates competitive HUD grants for cities to convert vacant or abandoned properties into affordable housing while coordinating community-policing and neighborhood safety strategies, with federal oversight and annual outcome reporting.

The bill creates HUD-USDA grants and low-interest loans for affordable workforce housing in rural and mountain communities, prioritizing severe shortages, long-term affordability, energy efficiency, and access to jobs and services.

Creates a competitive HUD grant program for Tribal governments and eligible rural communities to build, rehabilitate, and preserve affordable, energy-efficient housing while protecting Tribal control over local project decisions.

The bill creates a competitive HUD grant program to preserve and build affordable rental housing near transit stations and job centers, with long-term affordability, energy-efficiency, accessibility, and reporting requirements. Funding would depend on annual congressional appropriations.

Authorizes $2 billion annually for five years in HUD grants to build, rehabilitate, and preserve affordable housing for workers and Native Hawaiian families, prioritizing lasting affordability, energy efficiency, and access to jobs and services.

Establishes HUD-Defense competitive grants for housing construction and rehabilitation near military installations and in costly coastal areas, paired with expedited permitting and targeted housing assistance for veterans, military families, essential workers, and first-time buyers.

The bill expands voluntary federal immigration-enforcement cooperation with Louisiana law enforcement while funding training, data sharing, and detention coordination. It also expedites temporary work authorization for verified labor shortages with wage, civil-rights, due-process, and fraud safeguards.