Provide strong labor protections for workers building housing funded under the Homes Act.

Tina Smith · Minnesota · Democratic

policy impact 0.65 specificity 0.55 extraction confidence 84%

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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The official introduction of the Homes Act says the bill would provide workers with strong labor protections while building new housing, and says the proposal would create hundreds of thousands of jobs and strong tenant protections.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Smith and Ocasio-Cortez formally introduced the Homes Act with labor protections embedded in the proposal, which is a concrete policy step but not enactment. I found no later official action in the 30-day lookback window showing passage or implementation.

partial same_term A for effort

U.S. Senator Tina Smith and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Homes Act to Tackle America’s Housing Crisis
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 97%

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Section 8 is titled Labor and Buy America provisions. It requires U.S.-made materials, prevailing wages, project labor agreements on larger projects, local-hire and pre-apprenticeship outreach, worker-rights notices, safety programs, and employee-classification rules.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill text itself contains detailed labor standards for construction funded under the Homes Act, confirming the labor-protection component of the promise. It remains a proposal in the introduced bill text, so the record supports partial delivery rather than completed delivery.

partial same_term A for effort

Homes Act of 2024 bill text
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

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Smith and Ocasio-Cortez announced the Homes Act and said it would provide workers with strong labor protections on new housing construction.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Official announcement of the Homes Act shows Tina Smith advanced the idea legislatively, but it is only an introduction, not enactment or implementation.

never same_term A for effort

U.S. Senator Tina Smith and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Homes Act to Tackle America’s Housing Crisis
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 98%

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The introduced bill requires prevailing wages and project labor agreements on larger construction projects funded under the Act, and the text shows it was referred to committee.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill text confirms the labor-protection language was in the proposal, but the document is still introduced legislation rather than enacted law.

never same_term A for effort

Homes Act of 2024 bill text
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

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This bill has the status Introduced

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Congress.gov still lists Smith's Homes Act as only introduced, with no enacted-law status or later congressional action shown for S.5078.

never same_term A for effort

All Information (Except Text) for S.5078 - Homes Act of 2024
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 98%

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09/18/2024 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official action history shows only referral to committee, not passage, presentment, enactment, or implementation of the promised Homes Act labor protections.

never same_term A for effort

All Information (Except Text) for S.5078 - Homes Act of 2024
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 98%

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shall be paid wage rates not less than those prevailing on projects of a similar character in the locality

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The introduced Homes Act text did include prevailing-wage labor protection language, supporting a concrete legislative effort but not delivery because the bill was not enacted.

partial same_term A for effort

S. 5078 (118th) - Homes Act of 2024, Introduced in Senate
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 99%

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Senator Smith will continue to fight for measures like these until they become law

Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Smith's current housing issue page continues to frame the Homes Act among measures she is fighting to make law, which is consistent with non-delivery as of this refresh.

never same_term A for effort

Housing - Senator Tina Smith
primary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 93%

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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): never. unknown A for effort

Smith materially advanced the promise by co-introducing the Homes Act in September 2024, and the bill text expressly included substantial labor protections for workers on funded housing projects, including prevailing-wage and project-labor-agreement requirements. But the evidence shows only introduction and proposal language, not enactment or implementation. Under the federal credit rule, that is a serious legislative attempt without delivered policy, so the promise was not fulfilled.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 95%