Establish a HUD-administered grant program to help local governments develop pattern books that accelerate construction of missing middle housing, such as duplexes, triplexes, and multiplexes.

Lisa Blunt Rochester · Delaware · Democratic

policy impact 5.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 95%

Occurrences

The bipartisan Accelerating Home Building Act ... would establish a first-of-its-kind HUD-administered grant program to help local governments develop pattern books that accelerate missing middle housing construction. “Pattern books” are collections of pre-approved building designs for infill housing, like duplexes, triplexes, and multiplexes.

Blunt Rochester committed to establishing a HUD grant program to help local governments speed up construction of missing middle housing via pattern books.

NEWS: Senator Blunt Rochester, Banking Committee Colleagues Mark Up Landmark Bipartisan Housing Legislation
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Evidence

The House floor package dated May 18, 2026 includes Sec. 210, 'Accelerating Home Building Act,' showing the pattern-books grant concept remained in active House consideration during the lookback window.

Recent official House materials show the pattern-books grant proposal was still advancing inside a larger housing package, but not enacted.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R. 6644 / Housing for the 21st Century Act as posted for House consideration
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Congress.gov lists S.2361 as introduced on July 21, 2025, with the official title 'A bill to provide grants to units of general local government related to pre-reviewed designs for mixed-income housing, and for other purposes,' and no later enactment shown on the bill page.

The underlying Senate bill matches the promise, but the bill record still shows introduction only, not final delivery.

unresolved same_term A for effort

S.2361 - Accelerating Home Building Act of 2025
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Tracker: Tip | This bill has the status Passed House ... Latest Action: | Senate - 02/11/2026 Received in the Senate.

The closest legislative vehicle containing the grant program remained only a House-passed bill that had been received in the Senate, with no enactment shown as of the latest official action date.

unresolved same_term A for effort

All Information (Except Text) for H.R.6644 - Housing for the 21st Century Act
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Section 209 authorizes HUD to award grants to eligible entities to establish "pattern books" of pre-reviewed designs to make it easier to build homes that are always local building code compliant.

The House amendment still contained the matching HUD grant-program concept in bill text, but this was proposal language rather than enacted law.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Section-by-Section: THE 21ST CENTURY ROAD TO HOUSING ACT
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Assessments

never same_term A for effort

Lisa Blunt Rochester appears to have materially advanced the idea through S.2361 and related housing-package work, but the evidence shows only introduction and House consideration, not enactment of a HUD grant program. Because the promised outcome was not delivered into law or implemented, this is a serious but unsuccessful legislative attempt.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 94%

never same_term A for effort

The promised HUD-administered grant program for local pattern books/missing middle housing has not been enacted. The evidence shows the matching Senate bill, S.2361, was introduced in the 119th Congress and the concept remained under House consideration in May 2026, but there is no indication that the grant program became law or was otherwise established. Because this reflects a serious federal legislative attempt during Lisa Blunt Rochester's Senate term but not final delivery, the proper outcome is never with an effort badge.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%