Extend eligibility for Mortgage Revenue Bond and Mortgage Credit Certificate homeownership programs to qualifying surviving spouses of veterans by creating an exception to the first-time homebuyer requirement.

Rudy Yakym III · Indiana · Republican

policy impact 0.55 specificity 0.86 extraction confidence 91%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Evidence

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Rep. Gwen Moore's office says Moore and Rudy Yakym introduced the Veterans Surviving Spouse Parity Act. It describes current law as allowing VA home loans for surviving spouses but not Mortgage Credit Certificate or Mortgage Revenue Bond programs, and says the bill would create a surviving-spouse exception to the first-time-homebuyer rule.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Yakym took concrete bipartisan legislative action in the current House term, but the cited action is introduction of a bill rather than enactment, so the commitment remains unresolved rather than delivered.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Moore, Yakym Introduce Legislation to Support Surviving Spouses of Veterans | U.S. Congresswoman Gwen Moore
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The official U.S. Code text for mortgage revenue bonds contains the three-year first-time-homebuyer requirement and lists exceptions including targeted areas, home-improvement or rehabilitation loans, certain land/construction financing, and financing for a veteran; it does not list surviving spouses.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Federal statutory text still showed the relevant exception for veterans, not surviving spouses, shortly before the Moore-Yakym bill was introduced. This supports that the policy had not already been delivered by existing law.

unresolved same_term A for effort

26 USC 143: Mortgage revenue bonds: qualified mortgage bond and qualified veterans' mortgage bond
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%

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Yakym materially advanced the promised federal policy by introducing the bipartisan Veterans Surviving Spouse Parity Act with Rep. Gwen Moore on July 23, 2026, which directly targets the MRB/MCC first-time-homebuyer exception for qualifying surviving spouses. However, the available record shows introduction and support, not enactment or implementation; current federal statutory text still lacks the surviving-spouse exception. Because Yakym remains in office and the bill is recent/pending, this is not yet a failed promise, but it is also not delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%