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Home for the Brave Act of 2025

To exclude from consideration as income under the housing assistance programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development amounts received by a family from the Department of Veterans Affairs for service-related disabilities of a member of the family, and for other purposes.

Introduced Nov 7, 2025

Latest action (Nov 7, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.

Referred to
Financial Services Committee
Policy area
Housing and Community Development
Issues
Housing

Summary
  • Excludes Veterans Affairs disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation from income calculations for HUD housing assistance programs.
  • Prevents VA disability benefits from affecting eligibility for HUD housing assistance programs.
  • Prevents VA disability benefits from affecting the amount of HUD housing assistance benefits payable or rent contributions for veterans and their families.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
9 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Salud O. Carbajal’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $39,900
  • TIGER MOON GROUP $13,200
  • JENNINGS AERONAUTICS INC. $9,900
  • WINDOW WORLD $9,900
  • CHUMASH $8,400

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Salud O. Carbajal → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Nov 7, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services. · house
  2. Nov 7, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • S 1415 — Housing Unhoused Disabled Veterans Act · Introduced Apr 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 74%
  • HR 5529 — Fair Housing for Disabeled Veterans Act · Introduced Sep 19, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 8985 — Housing for All Veterans Act of 2026 · Introduced May 21, 2026 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 6337 — ROAD to Housing Act of 2025 · Introduced May 20, 2026 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 5618 — Housing PLUS Act of 2025 · Introduced Sep 30, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 7503 — Housing for Heroes Act of 2026 · Introduced Feb 11, 2026 · Cong. 119 68%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Nov 7, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

November 7, 2025

Mr. Carbajal (for himself and Mr. Smucker) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services

A BILL

To exclude from consideration as income under the housing assistance programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development amounts received by a family from the Department of Veterans Affairs for service-related disabilities of a member of the family, 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 as the “Home for the Brave Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF VETERANS DISABILITY BENEFITS FROM INCOME.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development Act (42 U.S.C. 3531 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

“SEC. 15. EXCLUSION OF VETERANS DISABILITY BENEFITS FROM INCOME.

“Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amounts received by any member of a household or family as disability compensation under chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, or dependency and indemnity compensation under chapter 13 of such title, shall not be considered as income of such household or family for purposes of—

“(1) determining the eligibility of such family or household for assistance under any program for housing assistance administered by the Secretary;

“(2) the amount of benefits payable to or on behalf of such family or household under such program; or

“(3) the amount of rent paid by such family or household for occupancy of a dwelling unit assisted under any such program.”. <all>

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