H.R. 2525

Summary

H.R. 2525, the Housing Vouchers Fairness Act, was introduced in the House on Mar 31, 2025 by Rep. Dina Titus (D) with 2 co-sponsors. It was referred to Financial Services, and last saw action on Mar 31, 2025: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Record

Text

H.R. 2525 has 2 co-sponsors.

119 HR 2525 IH: Housing Vouchers Fairness Act
 U.S. House of Representatives
 2025-03-31
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 I  119th CONGRESS  1st Session  H. R. 2525  IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES   March 31, 2025   Ms. Titus  (for herself,  Mr. Stanton , and  Ms. Ansari ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the  Committee on Financial Services    A BILL
To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers for high population areas, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the   Housing Vouchers Fairness Act  .
2.
Rental vouchers for high growth population areas
 Section 8(o) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f(o) ) is amended by adding at the end the following:
(23)
Rental vouchers for high growth population areas
(A)
In general
The Secretary shall, each year, using amounts appropriated pursuant to subparagraph (B), provide additional assistance in an equitable manner to each eligible public housing agency for tenant-based assistance, based on the population in the area served by the public housing agency, the extent to which existing voucher allocations of the eligible public housing agency do not meet its housing affordability needs, and historical shortfalls in providing assistance to such eligible public housing agency as a result of voucher formula allocations not keeping pace with population growth over the period identified in subparagraph (C)(ii).
(B)
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to Secretary to carry out this paragraph $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2025, which shall be available for renewals in each fiscal year thereafter until expended.
(C)
Eligible public housing agency defined
For the purposes of this paragraph, the term  eligible public housing agency  means a public housing agency that administers Federal housing assistance for an area that, as determined by the Secretary—
(i)
has a population of greater than 100,000; and
(ii)
is one of 25 areas in the United States that experienced the highest population growth between 2012 to 2022.
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To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers for high population areas, and for other purposes.

Sponsors

Rep. Dina Titus (D) sponsors H.R. 2525, and 2 members have co-sponsored it, all of them from the day it was introduced.

Dina Titus

Rep. · D–NV-1 · Sponsor

Introduced Mar 31, 2025

Yassamin Ansari

Rep. · D–AZ-3 · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 31, 2025 · Original

Greg Stanton

Rep. · D–AZ-4 · Co-sponsor

Joined Mar 31, 2025 · Original

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Committees

H.R. 2525 went before 1 committee: Financial Services.

Financial Services

Financial Services

Referred To · Mar 31, 2025 · 559 Bills

Actions

H.R. 2525 has taken 2 actions since Mar 31, 2025.

Votes

H.R. 2525 has not gone to a roll call.

Related bills

1 bill is related to H.R. 2525, as Identical bill.

S 1203Housing Vouchers Fairness ActMar 31, 2025 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. · Identical bill

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Titles

H.R. 2525 goes by 3 titles, 1 of them short titles.

• Housing Vouchers Fairness Act — Display Title
• Housing Vouchers Fairness Act — Short Title(s) as Introduced
• To authorize the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for rental vouchers for high population areas, and for other purposes. — Official Title as Introduced

Lobbying

1 client hired 1 firm and 26 registered lobbyists who named H.R. 2525 in 4 quarterly filings, 2025 to 2026. Reported under the Lobbying Disclosure Act; a filing’s income covers everything its registrant worked that quarter, so the amounts below are the filings’, not this bill’s.

Filed under Banking, Budget/Appropriations, Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, Consumer Issues/Safety/Products, Environment/Superfund, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Housing, Immigration.

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Firms

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Lobbyists

Named on the filings that cite the bill. The 20 named most often, of 26.

Filings

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Classification

The Congressional Research Service files H.R. 2525 under Housing and Community Development, one of its 31 policy areas, and gives it 3 legislative subjects.

CRS Subjects

CRS assigns every bill one policy area from its 31; H.R. 2525’s is Housing and Community Development.

Legislative Subjects

H.R. 2525 carries 3 of CRS’s legislative subjects, from Housing supply and affordability to Public housing.

Constitutional authority

The clause the sponsor cites as Congress’s power to enact H.R. 2525, as entered in the Congressional Record.

[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 57 (Monday, March 31, 2025)][House]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Ms. TITUS:H.R. 2525.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article 1 Section 8[Page H1376]

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