Delivering Americans Affordable Homes Act

This bill would require the Postal Service to set up a Housing Liaison Office within 60 days to support leasing Postal Service land for new housing. The office would list Postal Service property that may be suitable for housing, publish the list each year, and create a process for state, local, and tribal governments and their development partners to propose and negotiate leases. Leases would last at least 60 years, at least 20 percent of units would have to be affordable to households earning 80 percent or less of the area median income for at least 50 years, and construction workers would be paid prevailing wages. The Postal Service could not sell the land under this law, and the bill authorizes $10 million per year for fiscal years 2027 through 2031.

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Sponsors

• Chris Van Hollen Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors