HouseH.R. 10010119th Congress
Build Homes, Not Hate Act of 2026
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 10010 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 10010
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
to establish a grant program to provide grants to eligible entities to
create housing units and provide direct homelessness response,
supportive housing, and transitional services for individuals and
families experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, and for
other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 30, 2026
Ms. Wasserman Schultz introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition
to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
to establish a grant program to provide grants to eligible entities to
create housing units and provide direct homelessness response,
supportive housing, and transitional services for individuals and
families experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Build Homes, Not Hate Act of 2026''.
SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) In General.--The Administrator of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency shall, not later than 1 year after the date of the
enactment of this section, establish a program to provide grants to
eligible entities to create housing units and provide direct
homelessness response, supportive housing, and transitional services
for individuals and families experiencing homelessness or at risk of
homelessness.
(b) Use of Amounts.--Amounts made available to the Administrator of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the under this section shall
be used as follows:
(1) Housing units.--Not less than $54,000,000,000 shall be
used for grants to eligible entities to build, acquire,
rehabilitate, convert, preserve, or otherwise create new
affordable and market-rate housing units.
(2) Direct homelessness response, supportive housing, and
transitional services.--Not less than $14,000,000,000 shall be
used for grants to eligible entities to provide direct
homelessness response, supportive housing, and transitional
services, including emergency shelter, rental assistance, rapid
rehousing, homelessness prevention, housing navigation and case
management, behavioral health and substance use disorder
services, employment services, transportation assistance,
services for survivors of domestic violence, youth services,
veteran services, disability-related services, document
replacement, and other services necessary to help homeless
individuals and families obtain and maintain stable housing.
(3) Administration, technical assistance, and oversight.--
Not more than $2,000,000,000 may be used for administration,
technical assistance, data systems, oversight, inspections,
capacity building, and program integrity.
(c) Housing Activities.--Housing units under this section may be
created through new construction, modular construction, manufactured
housing, acquisition and rehabilitation of existing housing, conversion
of hotels, motels, office buildings, or other vacant or underutilized
properties, preservation of affordable housing, site acquisition,
infrastructure, environmental remediation, accessibility modifications,
accessibility modifications, and project operating reserves.
(d) Allocation.--The Administrator may award grants under this
section by formula, competition, or a combination of formula and
competitive awards, and shall prioritize communities with high numbers
or rates of unsheltered homelessness, chronic homelessness, or severe
housing cost burdens, including areas with substantial recent increases
in the average cost of rent.
(e) Federal Share.--The Federal share of a project or activity
carried out with a grant under this section may be up to 100 percent.
(f) Supplement, Not Supplant.--Amounts made available under this
section shall supplement and not supplant other Federal, State, local,
Tribal, territorial, or private funds otherwise available for
affordable housing, homelessness assistance, supportive housing,
emergency shelter, or transitional services.
(g) Prohibition on Immigration Enforcement Uses.--None of the funds
made available under this section may be used for immigration
enforcement, detention, removal operations, border wall construction,
surveillance for immigration enforcement purposes, or reimbursement of
costs related to immigration enforcement.
(h) Eligible Entity Defined.--In this section, the term ``eligible
entity'' means a State, a unit of local government, a territory, a
Tribal government, a public housing agency, a nonprofit organization,
or a consortium of such entities.
(i) Appropriation.--There is appropriated to the Administrator of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency for fiscal year 2027
$70,000,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2032, to carry
out this section.
(j) Rescission.--Of the unobligated balances of amounts made
available to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sections 90003
and 100052 of Public Law 119-21, $70,000,000,000 are hereby permanently
rescinded.
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