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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4659 
To require certain grantees under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 to submit a plan to track overly burdensome 
land use policies, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 23, 2025 
Mr. FLOOD (for himself and Ms. PETTERSEN) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require certain grantees under title I of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974 to submit 
a plan to track overly burdensome land use policies, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Identifying Regulatory 
Barriers to Housing Supply Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to discourage the use of 
overly burdensome land use policies and remove barriers 
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to making housing more affordable in order to further the 
original intent of the Community Development Block 
Grant program. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The United States has a shortage of mil-
lions of homes, contributing to a record number of 
cost-burdened households across rural, urban, and 
suburban communities. 
(2) The housing shortage is constraining the 
economy and costing Americans about $2 trillion per 
year in lost opportunities and lower productivity. 
(3) Zoning and land use policy reforms are one 
part of the solution to addressing the rising cost of 
housing, alongside policies that invest in fair and af-
fordable housing throughout the country. 
(4) The Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment should maintain adequate staffing levels 
to implement this legislation, assist communities in 
overcoming zoning and land use challenges unduly 
constraining housing, and support quality and af-
fordable housing programs serving the most vulner-
able of our nation. 
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SEC. 4. LAND USE PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 104 of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(n) PLAN TO TRACK AND REDUCE OVERLY BUR-
DENSOME LAND USE POLICIES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Prior to receipt in any fis-
cal year of a grant from the Secretary under sub-
section (b), (d)(1), or (d)(2)(B) of section 106, each 
recipient shall have prepared and submitted, not less 
frequently than once during the preceding 5-year pe-
riod, in accordance with this subsection and in such 
standardized form as the Secretary shall, by regula-
tion, prescribe, with respect to each land use policy 
described in paragraph (2) that is applicable to the 
jurisdiction served by the recipient, a description 
of— 
‘‘(A) whether the recipient has already 
adopted the policy in the jurisdiction served by 
the recipient within the preceding 5-year period; 
‘‘(B) the plan of the recipient to adopt and 
implement the policy in that jurisdiction; and 
‘‘(C) the ways in which adopting the policy 
will benefit the jurisdiction. 
‘‘(2) LAND
USE
POLICIES.—The policies de-
scribed in this paragraph are as follows: 
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‘‘(A) Expanding by-right multifamily zoned 
areas. 
‘‘(B) Allowing duplexes, triplexes, or 
fourplexes in areas zoned primarily for single- 
family residential homes. 
‘‘(C) Allowing manufactured homes in 
areas zoned primarily for single-family residen-
tial homes. 
‘‘(D) Allowing multifamily development in 
retail, office, and light manufacturing zones. 
‘‘(E) Allowing single-room occupancy de-
velopment wherever multifamily housing is al-
lowed. 
‘‘(F) Reducing minimum lot size. 
‘‘(G) Ensuring historic preservation re-
quirements and other land use policies or re-
quirements are coordinated to encourage cre-
ation of housing in historic buildings and his-
toric districts. 
‘‘(H) Increasing the allowable floor area 
ratio by allowing a higher ratio of total floor 
area in a building in comparison to its lot size. 
‘‘(I) Creating transit-oriented development 
zones. 
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‘‘(J) Streamlining or shortening permitting 
processes and timelines, including through one- 
stop and parallel-process permitting. 
‘‘(K) Eliminating or reducing off-street 
parking requirements. 
‘‘(L) Ensuring impact and utility invest-
ment fees accurately reflect required infrastruc-
ture needs and related impacts on housing af-
fordability are otherwise mitigated. 
‘‘(M) Allowing off-site construction, includ-
ing prefabricated construction. 
‘‘(N) Reducing or eliminating minimum 
unit square footage requirements. 
‘‘(O) Allowing the conversion of office 
units to apartments. 
‘‘(P) Allowing the subdivision of single- 
family homes into duplexes. 
‘‘(Q) Allowing accessory dwelling units, in-
cluding detached accessory dwelling units, on all 
lots with single-family homes. 
‘‘(R) Establishing density bonuses. 
‘‘(S) Eliminating or relaxing residential 
property height limitations. 
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‘‘(T) Using property tax abatements to en-
able higher density and mixed-income commu-
nities. 
‘‘(U) Donating vacant land for affordable 
housing development. 
‘‘(V) Enacting other relevant high-density 
single-family and multifamily zoning policies 
that the recipient chooses to report. 
‘‘(3) EFFECT OF SUBMISSION.—A submission 
under this subsection shall not be binding with re-
spect to the use or distribution of amounts received 
under section 106. 
‘‘(4) ACCEPTANCE
OR
NONACCEPTANCE
OF 
PLAN.—The acceptance or nonacceptance of any 
plan submitted under this subsection in which the 
information required under this subsection is pro-
vided is not an endorsement or approval of the plan, 
policies, or methodologies, or lack thereof. 
‘‘(5) PROHIBITION ON USE OF INFORMATION 
FOR ENFORCEMENT.—Information provided by a re-
cipient to the Secretary under this subsection may 
not be used as the basis for any enforcement ac-
tion.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The requirements under 
subsection (n) of section 104 of the Housing and Commu-
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nity Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304), as added 
by subsection (a), shall— 
(1) take effect on the date that is 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act; and 
(2) apply to recipients of a grant under sub-
section (b), (d)(1), or (d)(2)(B) of section 106 of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5306) before, on, and after such date. 
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