The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held an executive session for a markup of the bipartisan “Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act” on Tuesday, July 29.  This is the first bipartisan housing bill markup in over a decade.  The bill passed out of the Committee unanimously.

The “ROAD to Housing Act of 2025” is a bipartisan housing package that proposes reforms to a broad array of U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs, including some of the campaign’s policy priorities. While these reforms would make needed changes to HUD programs, the “ROAD to Housing Act” also includes provisions that could increase burden for tenants if implemented without sufficient guardrails. The campaign is committed to working with our partners to ensure the final legislation fully meets the needs of low-income households.

The “ROAD to Housing Act” includes 40 provisions, a few provisions have been a part of the campaign’s policy priorities and have been supported and advocated for by its coalition of multi-sector partners including Sec. 405 Choice in Affordable Housing Act, Sec. 501 Reforming Disaster Recovery Act, and Sec. 503 Rural Housing Service Reform Act.

Working alongside leading organizations from healthcare, education, climate, hunger, child welfare, gender and racial equity, criminal justice, faith, and many others, the campaign has consistently urged Congress to advance housing solutions to address the nation’s housing crisis. The provisions outlined above represent an important step toward achieving that goal.

Learn more about “Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act”

The National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has published an analysis of the bill, including information on provisions we support and those we have concerns about.

Read the draft bill text here.

See OSAH’s bipartisan housing policy package here.