Provide veterans with assistance needed to ensure they have housing.

We have a duty to the men and women who have bravely put their lives on the line to defend our country, and we must provide them with the assistance they need to ensure they have a home to return to.

Jackson says veterans must receive the assistance they need to ensure they have a home to return to.

Issues | Congressman Jonathan Jackson
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The Veterans section says, "we must provide them with the assistance they need to ensure they have a home to return to," and says Jackson cosponsored the Return Home to Housing Act, supported the VA Home Loan Awareness Act, and cosponsored the VA Loan Informed Disclosure Act.

Jackson's official House issues page restates the veterans-housing assistance pledge and identifies concrete legislative actions he took toward it.

partial same_term A for effort

Issues | Congressman Jonathan Jackson
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Jonathan L. Jackson [D-IL-1] as a cosponsor on 10/10/2023. The bill aimed to adjust VA per diem payments to grantees that provide services and transitional housing to homeless veterans; the bill remained at the Introduced status.

Jackson backed a targeted homeless-veterans transitional housing funding bill, but that specific bill did not become law in the 118th Congress.

partial same_term A for effort

Cosponsors - H.R.491 - 118th Congress: Return Home to Housing Act
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Congress.gov lists Rep. Jackson as a cosponsor on 11/02/2023. The CRS summary says the bill would require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to add a disclosure notifying military-service applicants that they may qualify for a VA Home Loan; the bill status was Introduced.

Jackson supported a bill to improve veterans' awareness of VA home-loan benefits, but that specific House bill stalled in committee.

partial same_term A for effort

All Info - H.R.5979 - VA Home Loan Awareness Act of 2023
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

The Clerk records H.R.8371, the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, as passed 389-9 on 11/18/2024. The vote list records Jackson (IL), Democratic, Illinois, as voting Yea.

Jackson voted for the House veterans package that contained homelessness and housing-assistance provisions later reflected in the enacted Dole Act.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 466 | Bill Number: H.R.8371
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 93%

Congress.gov says S.141 became Public Law No. 118-210 on 01/02/2025. Its public-law summary says the act addresses VA services including home loans and homelessness; Title IV increases through FY2027 the maximum VA per diem payments to entities furnishing services and transitional housing to homeless veterans, authorizes up to 200% rates for some grantees, and authorizes certain assistance for homeless veterans in HUD-VASH.

A federal law enacted during Jackson's first House term expanded VA homeless-veterans housing support and related assistance programs.

delivered same_term A for effort

S.141 - Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%

VA states the GPD National Program Office has fully implemented the increased per diem rates offered through September 30, 2027, under the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, and that grantees may request higher rates including up to 133% generally and waivers up to 200%.

VA implementation confirms that the enacted housing-assistance funding changes for homeless-veterans service providers took practical effect.

delivered same_term

Per Diem Rate Information - VA Homeless Programs
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 91%