Preserve Existing Affordable Units


  • Fully fund the Public Housing Operating Fund and provide funding to address the Operating Fund shortfall. 
  • Preserve the nation’s public housing by fully funding the Public Housing Capital Fund backlog. 
  • Make repositioning options available to all PHAs that want them. 
  • Ensure that RAD rents accurately reflect on-the-ground costs. Revise Operating Cost Adjustment Factors (OCAFs) to better align with current rental market conditions. 
  • Permanently authorize the CDBG-Disaster Recovery program to ensure federal recovery efforts reach all impacted households, especially the lowest-income and most marginalized survivors. 
  • Increase cost-efficiencies in affordable housing rehabilitation and development by adjusting Davis Bacon wage requirements to inflation.   
  • Increase the small grants and de minimis thresholds and exempt housing and community development programs from Build America, Buy America (BABA) requirements. 
  • Preserve affordable housing in rural communities funded by the USDA Rural Housing Service.