We can build on the USPS model and convert underutilized federal and state government buildings — well beyond the U.S. Postal Service —to housing, and use unused and underused federal land in cities to build affordable housing and economic development centers.
Convert underused federal and state government buildings and land into affordable housing and economic development centers.
Occurrences
Evidence
House and Senate leaders reached a bipartisan deal on the 21st Century Road to Housing Act. The package is described as making manufactured housing easier to build and finance, reducing builder regulations, and using grants to encourage home development.
The Senate passed H.R. 6644 on March 12, 2026, and Adam Schiff voted Yea on the measure.
Congress.gov says the bill expands affordable housing financing and grants for planning and community development, and exempts certain housing-related rehabilitation from environmental review. Adam Schiff appears in the bill's cosponsor list.
Assessments
Schiff appears to have materially supported broad housing-supply legislation during his current Senate term by cosponsoring H.R. 6644 and voting for it in the Senate on March 12, 2026. That shows relevant effort on affordable housing and community development, but the evidence does not show that he delivered the specific promised outcome of converting underused federal and state government buildings or land into affordable housing and economic development centers. Because the legislative action is only an indirect match and does not establish the specific conversion policy as enacted, the promise is best scored as partial rather than delivered.