119th (2025–2027)
H.R. 3988
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.