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POSITIVE Housing & Affordability 118th Congress

H.R.6970 DASH Act

DASH Act — creates homelessness prevention vouchers and grants for modular affordable housing construction (118th Congress)

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Legal & Constitutional Grounding

NLIHC documents only 35 affordable units per 100 ELI renter households; 7.2M-unit rental shortage.

NLIHC Gap Report (2026): only 35 affordable and available rental homes per 100 extremely low-income renter households
  • 42 U.S.C. § 1437f — Section 8 voucher authority for low-income housing assistance
  • 42 U.S.C. § 11301 — McKinney-Vento Act findings on homelessness crisis

Bill activity

Introduced Jan 11, 2024 by Val T. Hoyle (D-OR) with 1 original cosponsor.

Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY-18) is not listed among the cosponsors of this bill.
  1. IntroducedJan 11, 2024
  2. Passed House 
  3. Passed Senate 
  4. To President 
  5. Became Law 

Latest action Dec 17, 2024: Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.

Sponsor Val T. Hoyle (D-OR)

1 original cosponsor:

Cosponsorship closed Jan 3, 2025 (118th Congress): the Congress ended with the bill still in committee.

Activity log

Source: Congress.gov actions
  1. Introduced in House
  2. Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the...
  3. Salud O. Carbajal cosponsored (D-CA, original)
  4. Referred to 2 subcommitteesHouse
    • Subcommittee on Health
    • Subcommittee on Work and Welfare

Votes on this bill

No recorded votes yet on this measure.

DASH Act — creates homelessness prevention vouchers and grants for modular affordable housing construction. Only 35 affordable units exist per 100 extremely low-income renter households (NLIHC), and modular construction reduces per-unit costs.