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Grandfamily Housing Act of 2025
To provide grants to owners of intergenerational dwelling units, and for other purposes.
Summary
The Grandfamily Housing Act of 2025 establishes a grant program to provide funding to owners of intergenerational dwelling units that serve households with grandparents or other relatives raising grandchildren. Grant funds may be used to employ service coordinators to provide onsite services such as tutoring, health care, afterschool care, and age-appropriate activities for children. Grant recipients must conduct outreach to intergenerational families in their communities and coordinate with kinship navigator programs where possible. The grants may also be used for planning and providing additional services and retrofitting spaces within the properties. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development must report to Congress within two years on the program's effectiveness and make recommendations for improvements.
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Sponsor (1)
2 cosponsors
- Rep. Bell, Wesley [D-MO-1] (D-MO)
- Rep. Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7] (D-MA)
Actions (2)
- Nov 4, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. · house
- Nov 4, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 4, 2025
Mr. McGovern (for himself and Ms. Pressley) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To provide grants to owners of intergenerational dwelling units, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited to as the “Grandfamily Housing Act of 2025”.
SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR GRANDFAMILY HOUSING.
(a) In General.—Title II of the LEGACY Act of 2003 (12 U.S.C. 1790q note) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“SEC. 206. GRANT PROGRAM.
“(a) In General.—The Secretary shall, not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this section, establish a program to provide grants to owners of intergenerational dwelling units.
“(b) Application.—To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an owner of an intergenerational dwelling unit shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may reasonably require.
“(c) Use of Grant Amounts.—An owner of an intergenerational dwelling unit that receives a grant under this section shall use amounts provided to cover costs associated with—
“(1) employing a service coordinator to—
“(A) offer onsite services to intergenerational families, including tutoring, health care services, afterschool care, and activities that are age appropriate for children of various ages of development; and
“(B) coordinate with any local kinship navigator program (as described in section 474(a)(7) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 674(a)(7)));
“(2) facilitating outreach to intergenerational families as described in subsection (d);
“(3) planning and providing services to intergenerational families; and
“(4) retrofitting and maintaining existing spaces within the property that contains the intergenerational dwelling unit for the services and programs provided to intergenerational families.
“(d) Outreach.—
“(1) In general.—An owner of an intergenerational dwelling unit that receives a grant under this section shall engage with intergenerational families in the community surrounding the property that contains the grandfamily housing owned by the grant recipient by—
“(A) performing periodic informational outreach; and
“(B) planning and offering events for intergenerational families.
“(2) Coordination.—Outreach under this subsection shall, where possible, be in coordination with a local kinship navigator program (as described in section 474(a)(7) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 674(a)(7))) or a comparable program or entity in the State in which the intergenerational dwelling unit is located.
“(e) Authorization of Appropriations.—There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.
“(f) Nondiscrimination.—The program established under this section shall be implemented by the Secretary in a manner that is consistent with the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.).”.
(b) VAWA Protections.—Section 41411(a)(3) of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 12491(a)(3)) is amended—
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (O) and (P) as subparagraphs (P) and (Q), respectively; and
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (N) the following:
“(O) the program established under section 206 of the LEGACY Act of 2003;”.
(c) Report.—Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall submit to the Congress a report that—
(1) describes the effectiveness of the grant program established under section 206 of the LEGACY Act of 2003, as added by subsection (a); and
(2) makes recommendations for legislative changes that could allow for the grant program to be more effective. <all>
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