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

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.