To make housing more affordable, and for other purposes.
USA115th CongressHR-7262| House
| Updated: 12/13/2018
Cedric L. Richmond
Democratic Representative
Louisiana
Committees (7)
• Transportation and Infrastructure Committee• Ways and Means Committee• Highways and Transit Subcommittee• Financial Services Committee• Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee• Judiciary Committee• Education and Workforce Committee
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor
- Passed Chamber
- Enacted
American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2018 This bill addresses housing affordability and access by establishing a Local Housing Innovation grant program to support efforts to remove barriers to affordable housing; reauthorizing and increasing funding for various specified housing programs; establishing a Middle Class Housing Emergency Fund to support the construction of affordable rental-housing units; establishing a down-payment assistance program; establishing a formula grant program to assist borrowers who have negative equity in their homes; expanding the applicability, and increasing the penalties for violations, of certain requirements for financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of lower-income communities; expanding certain protections under the Fair Housing Act; and otherwise revising provisions related to housing assistance. The bill also lowers estate-tax thresholds, establishes new tax rates above those thresholds, and otherwise modifies provisions related to transfer taxes.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Housing and Community Development
Agricultural prices, subsidies, creditAppropriationsBanking and financial institutions regulationBuilding constructionConsumer creditEducational facilities and institutionsElementary and secondary educationEnergy efficiency and conservationFinancial crises and stabilizationGovernment information and archivesGovernment lending and loan guaranteesHigher educationHousing and community development fundingHousing discriminationHousing finance and home ownershipHousing supply and affordabilityIndian social and development programsLabor standardsLand use and conservationLow- and moderate-income housingPublic contracts and procurementPublic housingRegional and metropolitan planningResidential rehabilitation and home repairRural conditions and developmentSex, gender, sexual orientation discriminationSmall businessTransfer and inheritance taxesWages and earnings
To make housing more affordable, and for other purposes.
USA115th CongressHR-7262| House
| Updated: 12/13/2018
American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2018 This bill addresses housing affordability and access by establishing a Local Housing Innovation grant program to support efforts to remove barriers to affordable housing; reauthorizing and increasing funding for various specified housing programs; establishing a Middle Class Housing Emergency Fund to support the construction of affordable rental-housing units; establishing a down-payment assistance program; establishing a formula grant program to assist borrowers who have negative equity in their homes; expanding the applicability, and increasing the penalties for violations, of certain requirements for financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of lower-income communities; expanding certain protections under the Fair Housing Act; and otherwise revising provisions related to housing assistance. The bill also lowers estate-tax thresholds, establishes new tax rates above those thresholds, and otherwise modifies provisions related to transfer taxes.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
Cedric L. Richmond
Democratic Representative
Louisiana
Committees (7)
• Transportation and Infrastructure Committee• Ways and Means Committee• Highways and Transit Subcommittee• Financial Services Committee• Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee• Judiciary Committee• Education and Workforce Committee
Housing and Community Development
- Introduced
- In Committee
- On Floor
- Passed Chamber
- Enacted
Agricultural prices, subsidies, creditAppropriationsBanking and financial institutions regulationBuilding constructionConsumer creditEducational facilities and institutionsElementary and secondary educationEnergy efficiency and conservationFinancial crises and stabilizationGovernment information and archivesGovernment lending and loan guaranteesHigher educationHousing and community development fundingHousing discriminationHousing finance and home ownershipHousing supply and affordabilityIndian social and development programsLabor standardsLand use and conservationLow- and moderate-income housingPublic contracts and procurementPublic housingRegional and metropolitan planningResidential rehabilitation and home repairRural conditions and developmentSex, gender, sexual orientation discriminationSmall businessTransfer and inheritance taxesWages and earnings