Create a HUD grant program to encourage local governments to reform zoning and permitting.

Adam Smith · Washington · Democratic

spending impact 0.71 specificity 0.92 extraction confidence 94%

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Zoning and Permitting Reform Grants: Create a HUD grant program to encourage local governments to reform zoning and permitting, with $10 billion allocated annually from 2025, including support for community land trusts.

The bill would establish a federal grant program to push local zoning and permitting reform.

Representative Smith Introduces Landmark Legislation to Tackle Housing Affordability, Increase Construction of New Homes | Congressman Adam Smith
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Evidence

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Public Law 119-101 directs HUD to establish competitive grant programs for affordable-housing planning and implementation and an Innovation Fund. Section 207 covers updating zoning codes and administering reformed zoning-code processes; Section 208 covers initiatives including streamlined regulatory requirements, permitting capacity, and zoning-code reforms, with $200 million authorized annually for FY2027-FY2031.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The enacted law creates HUD-administered competitive grants that encourage local housing-supply reforms, including zoning updates, reformed zoning-code processes, permitting capacity, and regulatory streamlining. This matches the core commitment, though at a smaller funding scale than Smith's earlier PHAZE Act proposal.

delivered same_term A for effort

Public Law 119-101 - 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
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The Clerk's recent-votes page for Rep. Adam Smith lists Roll Call 224 on H.R. 6644, Housing for the 21st Century Act, as a Yea vote, with the status Passed.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Smith voted yes on the final House action for H.R. 6644, the vehicle that became Public Law 119-101 and created the relevant HUD grant authority.

delivered same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Adam Smith Recent Votes
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Public Law 119-101, enacted during Adam Smith's current federal House term, creates HUD-administered competitive grant programs for affordable-housing planning and implementation, including zoning-code updates, reformed zoning processes, permitting capacity, and regulatory streamlining. That substantially matches the promise to create a HUD grant program encouraging local zoning and permitting reform. Smith also voted yea on final House passage of the bill vehicle, giving him candidate credit within the same term.

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