To direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Director of the Bureau of the Census to conduct a study and submit a report about how Federal agencies identify and record cases of housing loss in the United States, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · June 12, 2025
Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.
H.R. 3988 directs the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau to jointly study how federal agencies currently track and record housing loss across the country. The two departments must consult with three other federal agencies and submit their findings within six months to Congress, identifying all types of housing loss (including evictions, foreclosures, and disaster-related displacement), determining which are most common, and cataloging the federal datasets that capture this information. The report must evaluate each dataset's update frequency, data-sharing policies, accuracy, and geographic coverage, then recommend ways federal agencies could better identify and record housing loss, potentially through new data collection or consolidating existing systems. No specific funding amount is mentioned in the bill, but the study affects all Americans experiencing housing instability and targets a six-month completion deadline from the bill's enactment.
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