Urge your representatives and senators to enact a fiscal year 2025 Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding bill with increased and adequate funding for HUD’s affordable senior housing programs. 

Increased and adequate funding is essential to HUD’s affordable senior housing programs.

There are big differences between the House and Senate appropriations committees’ HUD funding bills for affordable senior housing. Make sure lawmakers know where you stand.

Now is the time to ensure your senators and representatives hear from you on key programs and issues impacting affordable senior housing as bills progress to passage by the December 20 expiration of the current continuing resolution.

For the final HUD funding bill, urge lawmakers to:

• Support at least the Senate bill’s $115 million for about 900 new Section 202 homes. The House bill has no funding for new Section 202 homes.
• Support the Senate bill’s $10 million for HUD to provide certain distressed properties, or at risk of becoming distressed, budget-based rent adjustments. The House bill has no such funding.
• Support the Senate bill’s $40 million for HUD’s Older Adult Home Modification Program. The House bill has no such funding.
• Support the Senate bill’s $2 million to help small properties participate in the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) housing preservation program. The House bill has no such funding.
• Support the Senate bill’s requirement for HUD to coordinate with the Director of the Federal Insurance Office on insurance issues, emphasizing affordable housing properties. The House bill has no such provision.
• Include, which neither bill does:
  • $10 million for RAD for PRAC conversion subsidy for rent increases to preserve 3,000 Section 202 homes.
  • $50 million for about 5,000 new Older Adult Special Purpose Vouchers, at least 50% of which could be project-based.
  • $100 million for 400 new, three-year service coordinator grants.
  • Authorization for capital advances for new Section 202 properties to be paired with project-based Section 8 operating subsidies.