The bill would help build and preserve as many as 1.3 million homes in small towns, big cities, and rural communities; and help families everywhere find a quality, affordable place to call home.
Build, preserve, rehabilitate, and maintain as many as 1.3 million sustainable, permanently affordable homes in rural and urban communities.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov lists S.5078, the Homes Act of 2024, as introduced by Sen. Tina Smith on 2024-09-18 and still in introduced status, with the latest action being referral to the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.
Smith's official housing page says her Homes Act would create over a million permanently affordable homes and that she will keep fighting for measures like these until they become law; the page also shows no indication that the bill has become law.
Smith's official housing page says her Homes Act would create over a million permanently affordable homes and that she will continue to fight for measures like these until they become law.
Congress.gov shows Tina Smith as sponsor, with the latest action on 2024-09-18 stating the bill was read twice and referred to the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee; the tracker lists the bill status as Introduced.
The bill text sets permanent-affordability and sustainability requirements for social housing and authorizes $30 billion annually for fiscal years 2025 through 2035.
Assessments
Smith materially pursued the promise by sponsoring the Homes Act of 2024, S.5078, on September 18, 2024. But Congress.gov still shows the bill only at introduced status, with its latest action being referral to the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee on September 18, 2024, and no enactment of the large federal program needed to build or preserve roughly 1.3 million permanently affordable homes. Her official Senate housing page, current as of 2026, still says the Homes Act would create over a million permanently affordable homes and that she will continue fighting for it until it becomes law, which indicates the promise remains pending rather than completed. Because Smith is still in office in the same Senate term and made a serious legislative effort, this is best scored as unresolved with an effort badge rather than delivered or never.
Tina Smith did materially advance the promise by introducing the Homes Act of 2024, which matches the claimed affordable-housing goal. But the available evidence shows the bill remained in introduced/referral status and her official housing page still describes it as something she will keep fighting for until it becomes law. That means the promised outcome has not been delivered yet, but it is also not a completed failure, so unresolved is the best fit.