Empty Lots to Housing Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- +12
- Latest action
- May 15, 2025
What it does
The Empty Lots to Housing Act would allow recipients of federal transportation assistance to transfer real property no longer needed for its original purpose to local governments, nonprofits, or third-party entities for the development of transit-oriented housing. The bill requires that at least 40% of the housing units developed on such property be reserved for low-income families earning 60% or less of the area median income, with at least 20% of those units further reserved for families earning 30% or less of the area median income, and that these affordability restrictions be contractually enforced for 30 years. The Secretary of Transportation may authorize such transfers only if…
AI summary · The lawmakers haven’t published an official summary of this bill yet, so 52 wrote this one from the bill’s text.
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