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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5889 
To create a hotline to provide eviction-related assistance. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 31, 2025 
Ms. PRESSLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To create a hotline to provide eviction-related assistance. 
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 ‘‘Eviction Helpline Act’’. 
SEC. 2. EVICTION INFORMATION. 
(a) HOTLINE.—The Secretary shall, not later than 
1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, estab-
lish a hotline to provide assistance with regard to eviction- 
related matters to tenants of covered federally assisted 
rental dwelling units. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry 
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out this section such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2026 and each fiscal year thereafter. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) For purposes of this Act: 
(1) 
ASSISTANCE.—The 
term 
‘‘assistance’’ 
means any grant, loan, subsidy, contract, cooperative 
agreement, or other form of financial assistance, but 
such term does not include the insurance or guar-
antee of a loan, mortgage, or pool of loans or mort-
gages. 
(2) COVERED
FEDERALLY
ASSISTED
RENTAL 
DWELLING UNIT.—The term ‘‘covered federally as-
sisted rental dwelling unit’’ means a residential 
dwelling unit that— 
(A) is made available for rental; and 
(B)(i) for which assistance is provided, or 
that is part of a housing project for which as-
sistance is provided, under any program admin-
istered by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, including— 
(I) the public housing program under 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 21 
(42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.); 
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(II) the program for rental assistance 
under section 8 of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f); 
(III) the HOME Investment Partner-
ships program under title II of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing 
Act (42 U.S.C. 12721 et seq.); 
(IV) title IV of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11360 
et seq.); 
(V) the Housing Trust Fund program 
under section 1338 of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1992 (12 
U.S.C. 4568); 
(VI) the program for supportive hous-
ing for the elderly under section 202 of the 
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); 
(VII) the program for supportive 
housing for persons with disabilities under 
section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
8013); 
(VIII) the AIDS Housing Opportuni-
ties program under subtitle D of title VIII 
of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Afford-
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able Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et 
seq.); 
(IX) the program for Native American 
housing under the Native American Hous-
ing Assistance and Self-Determination Act 
of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.); and 
(X) the program for housing assist-
ance for Native Hawaiians under title VIII 
of the Native American Housing Assist-
ance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 7 
(25 U.S.C. 4221 et seq.); or 
(ii) is a property, or is on or in a property, 
that has a federally backed mortgage loan or 
federally backed multifamily mortgage loan, as 
11 such terms are defined in section 4024(a) of 
the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9058(a)). 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
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