Fund public housing rehabilitation, address the public housing repair backlog, and repeal the Faircloth Amendment to allow new public housing.

Provide funding to rehabilitate and address the backlog of necessary improvements for public housing and repeal the Faircloth Amendment to allow new public housing.

The Homes Act would provide public housing repair funding and repeal the Faircloth Amendment so new public housing can be built.

U.S. Senator Tina Smith and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Homes Act to Tackle America’s Housing Crisis - Senator Tina Smith
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The House passed the 21st Century Road to Housing Act with broad bipartisan support; the bill is designed to improve housing affordability, streamline rules, and make it easier to develop and finance housing.

Recent congressional action shows housing policy movement, including a bill that makes it easier to build and finance housing, but it does not show a Faircloth repeal or a completed public-housing rehab commitment.

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House Passes Affordable Housing Bill-With a Watered-Down Investor Ban
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The Senate bill would expand how housing dollars can be used to build affordable homes and rentals, and it would lift limits on public housing units that can receive private financing through Section 8 funding to rehabilitate properties.

This is concrete progress toward housing rehabilitation funding and backlog repair, but it is still a bill, not a repeal of Faircloth or a final enacted public-housing expansion.

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Senate passes bipartisan housing bill to improve access and affordability
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tina Smith introduced the Homes Act, which would create a federal authority to fund millions of affordable homes and apartments through HUD.

Smith took a concrete legislative step toward federally funded social housing, but this is still proposal-stage and does not itself repeal Faircloth or solve the public-housing backlog.

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AOC introduces legislation for low-cost housing programme backed by US funding
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The current codified Housing Act still limits public housing capital and operating funds from being used for new construction that would raise the number of units above the October 1, 1999 baseline.

Faircloth remains in force in current law, so the repeal part of the promise was not achieved.

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United States Housing Act of 1937 (GovInfo compilation, as amended through Dec. 29, 2022)
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In September 2024, Tina Smith and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Homes Act in Congress, seeking federal funding for large-scale social housing with permanent affordability rules.

This shows Smith took a concrete legislative step toward the funding-and-build side of the promise, but it was only an introduction.

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AOC introduces legislation for low-cost housing programme backed by US funding
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The public-housing bill backed by Smith and other progressives proposed major rehab funding, targeted the maintenance backlog, and sought repeal of the Faircloth Amendment.

This is another concrete attempt to address the backlog and expand public housing, but it remained a proposal and did not deliver the promised result.

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AOC and Sanders aim to place public housing at center of Green New Deal
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