Guide · Local Gov
Cities, Counties & Regional Planners
A public-land database by October 1, CDBG tied to housing growth, and grants that reward reform.
The one thing to know
CDBG grantees owe a searchable database of undeveloped public land by October 1, 2026, and entitlement cities and counties should have HUD’s Build Now growth-rate letter around September 9, 2026 — the rest is opportunity, not mandate.
The National League of Cities summed it up: the Act imposes no zoning preemption and no unfunded mandates, but it does reshape CDBG. Section 104 requires every CDBG grantee to certify it maintains a public, searchable database of all undeveloped land it owns (effective October 1, 2026; the cost is CDBG-eligible). Section 213 (Build Now) will, from the third full fiscal year after enactment through FY2043, cut allocations 10% for entitlement grantees below the median housing-growth improvement rate and redistribute the money as bonuses to those at or above it, with exemptions for low-cost, high-vacancy, recently disaster-declared, and no-zoning-authority jurisdictions. Section 204 lets you spend up to 20% of CDBG on new construction of affordable housing.
The opportunity side is a set of competitive programs HUD must establish by July 11, 2027: the Innovation Fund (Section 208, $200 million a year authorized FY2027–2031, for localities and tribes that can show supply growth), planning and implementation grants (Section 207, including regional planning agencies), pattern-book design grants (Section 209), and RESIDE conversion grants (Section 210, for HOME PJs). Sections 205–206 and 501 make environmental review faster for small and infill projects, Section 102 will bring single-stair model code guidance by January 2028, and Section 107 will publish voluntary state and local zoning frameworks by July 2029.
What changes for you
All sections tagged for youThe sections below are the ones this guide leans on, in the order they matter most. Each links to the full plain-English breakdown and the enrolled text.
- Sec. 102otherFederal Guidelines for Point-Access Block BuildingsDirects HUD to publish model code language, best practices, and technical guidance that states, territories, Tribes, and localities can use to permit single-stair ("point-access block") apartment buildings of up to six stories. HUD must weigh fire safety, cost and affordability, unit flexibility, existing U.S. and international single-stair codes, and expert input, and must coordinate with the International Code Council. HUD may also run a competitive pilot grant program to test safety and cost-effectiveness. Nothing preempts state or local building codes.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 103reformExemption on Construction or Modification of Residential Housing Located on an Infill SiteRelieves USDA of any environmental study or report when it assists construction or modification of housing on an "infill site" under its main rural housing programs (Sections 501, 502, 504, 515, 533, and 538 of the Housing Act of 1949). An infill site is one already served by water, sewer, and roads — not a road-only site, not a census tract carrying the risk designations the statute lists, and not a greenfield. USDA must report back to Congress within five years on whether the change sped up reviews and cut costs.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 104reformDatabase of Publicly Owned LandAdds a new CDBG grantee certification: the grantee maintains a publicly accessible, searchable online database identifying every parcel of undeveloped land it owns. Building and maintaining that database becomes an eligible CDBG activity. The idea is to make surplus public land visible to builders and community groups.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 107otherHousing Supply FrameworksDirects HUD’s Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research to publish guidelines and best practices for state and local zoning frameworks — parking minimums, floor-area and height limits, ADUs, by-right duplexes through quadplexes, ministerial review, transit-oriented development, impact fees, a model state zoning-appeals process, and more — after convening a task force and taking Federal Register comment. It also abolishes and repeals HUD’s Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse. Adoption is voluntary: HUD may not penalize a jurisdiction that declines.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 204reformAddition of Affordable Housing Construction as an Eligible ActivityFor the first time, makes new construction of affordable housing (as defined in HOME Section 215) an eligible CDBG activity, capped at 20 percent of a recipient’s allocation, and counts it toward the low- and moderate-income benefit requirement. Applies only to CDBG funds appropriated after enactment.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 205reformBetter Use of Intergovernmental and Local Development (BUILD) Housing ActLets HUD designate any assistance it administers as a "special project" for environmental review, which allows states, localities, and — newly — federally recognized Indian Tribes to assume HUD’s NEPA responsibilities. The designation does not apply where another statute already spells out the NEPA procedure, and it reaches only funds appropriated after enactment (not projects that blend pre- and post-enactment money).Read the breakdown
- Sec. 206reformUnlocking Housing Supply Through Streamlined and Modernized Reviews ActDirects HUD to rewrite its environmental review regulations (24 CFR parts 50 and 58) through notice-and-comment rulemaking so that a long list of housing activities are exempt or categorically excluded from NEPA review. Tenant-based rental assistance, supportive services, operating costs, homebuyer assistance, and predevelopment costs become exempt; small rehab and up-to-4-unit projects become categorical exclusions not subject to related federal laws; and 5–15 unit new construction, office-to-residential conversions, infill projects of up to 5 acres, and voluntary acquisitions of disaster-impacted floodway or floodplain properties become categorical exclusions subject to those laws. HUD must report annually on time and cost savings.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 207grantGrants for Planning and Implementation Associated with Affordable HousingCreates a competitive HUD grant program — to be established within one year — for states, insular areas, metropolitan cities, urban counties, and regional planning agencies to develop and implement housing plans, update zoning codes, build inspection capacity, and coordinate with transportation. Grants cannot pay for construction, alteration, or repair. HUD coordinates with the Federal Transit Administration; the program sunsets five years after enactment and has no dedicated authorization of appropriations.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 208authorizationInnovation FundAuthorizes $200 million a year for FY2027–FY2031 for competitive HUD grants to metropolitan cities, urban counties, other local governments, and Tribes that can show an "objective improvement in housing supply growth" under a HUD methodology published for comment at least 90 days before each NOFO. Winners may spend on CDBG-eligible activities, RAISE-type transportation projects, or local initiatives that expand "attainable housing" (≤120% AMI, majority ≤60% AMI). At least 25 grants a year of $250,000 to $10 million, with priority for innovative pro-supply policies. Nothing lets HUD preempt local zoning.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 209grantAccelerating Home Building ActAuthorizes HUD grants to local governments, municipal membership organizations, and Tribes to select pre-reviewed designs — "pattern books" — for small mixed-income housing types of up to 25 units (ADUs, duplexes through fourplexes, cottage courts, townhouses, multiplexes) so builders can get faster, more predictable approvals. At least 10 percent of each year’s funds go to rural areas, and a grantee that has not adopted its designs within five years may have to repay. Grants may not fund construction and depend on appropriations.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 210pilotRevitalizing Empty Structures Into Desirable Environments (RESIDE) ActAdds a new Section 227 to the HOME statute authorizing a FY2027–FY2031 pilot of competitive grants to HOME participating jurisdictions to convert vacant and abandoned commercial and industrial buildings — warehouses, factories, malls, hotels — into "attainable housing." Grants of $1 million to $10 million apply in any year with at least $100 million appropriated; priority goes to distressed communities, Opportunity Zones, consolidated-plan needs, and jurisdictions that have cut regulatory barriers to conversion. HUD gets broad waiver authority except for fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor, and environmental rules.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 213reformBuild Now ActTies a slice of CDBG entitlement money to housing production. Starting with the third full fiscal year after enactment and running through FY2043, HUD computes each metropolitan city’s and urban county’s "housing growth improvement rate" — a normalized index: the last five years’ average annual unit growth minus the prior five years’, divided by the sum of their absolute values. Recipients below the median rate lose 10 percent of their allocation, and that money is redistributed as bonuses to at-or-above-median and "extremely high-growth" (4 percent a year or more) recipients in proportion to their recent unit growth. Low-cost, high-vacancy, recently disaster-declared, and no-zoning-authority jurisdictions are exempt.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 501reformHOME Investment Partnerships Reauthorization and Reform ActA top-to-bottom modernization of HOME, the block grant that states and larger localities use for affordable rental and homeownership housing. It permanently authorizes the program, raises the income and price limits for homeownership assistance, lets non-CDBG participating jurisdictions fund infrastructure next to HOME or LIHTC housing, exempts several activity types from NEPA review, relieves small jurisdictions from Section 3, and gives HUD stronger enforcement tools. Most changes are self-executing; HUD owes two rulemakings within one year.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 503reformIncentivizing Local Solutions to HomelessnessGives Emergency Solutions Grants (ESG) recipients a way to spend more than the statutory cap on emergency shelter and street outreach. For FY2027 through FY2030 funds, a recipient may ask HUD to waive the McKinney-Vento §415(b) expenditure limit after soliciting public input and notifying subrecipients and Continuums of Care. HUD must decide within 60 days, publish requests and revocations, and must deny waivers to recipients that relocate people without offering shelter or housing options.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 504authorizationReforming Disaster Recovery ActPuts the long-running, ad hoc CDBG Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program on a statutory footing — but only for three years. It spells out HUD’s disaster duties, creates a HUD Office of Disaster Management and Resiliency and a Long-Term Disaster Recovery Fund in the Treasury — a HUD-administered account, not a Treasury program — and adds HCDA §124 authorizing formula grants for "catastrophic major disasters" with standing rules on allocation, action plans, low- and moderate-income benefit, mitigation, resilience standards, performance reviews, and expenditure deadlines. HUD owes proposed rules in 6 months and final rules in 1 year; the program sunsets 3 years after enactment.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 201otherIncreasing Housing in Opportunity ZonesLets HUD give extra weight, in any competitive grant for housing construction, modification, rehabilitation, or preservation, to applicants whose projects are located in or substantially and directly benefit a qualified Opportunity Zone. It is permissive scoring authority, not a set-aside.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 202pilotWhole-Home Repairs ActAuthorizes a HUD pilot that funds states, localities, and Tribes ("implementing organizations") to run whole-home repair programs: grants to homeowners at or below 80 percent of AMI (or income-eligible for Medicaid, CHIP, SSI, SNAP, or TANF) and loans — which may be forgivable — to small landlords for accessibility, habitability, and energy or weatherization repairs. Landlords must keep units affordable and cap rent increases for at least three years. The pilot ends October 1, 2031 and depends on appropriations.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 304grantPRICE ActCodifies HUD’s PRICE program as new Section 123 of the Housing and Community Development Act, captioned "Preservation and Reinvestment for Community Enhancement" (HUD’s administrative name for the program does include "Initiative"): competitive grants, subject to appropriations, to resident-owned communities, local governments, housing authorities, CDFIs, nonprofits, Tribes, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, states, and owner-operators for infrastructure, home repair and replacement, acquisition, planning, and resident services in manufactured housing communities affordable at or below 120 percent of AMI. Priority goes to projects that primarily benefit low- and moderate-income residents and lock in long-term affordability. The program sunsets seven years after enactment.Read the breakdown
- Sec. 1202otherNo Additional Funds AuthorizedOne sentence that shapes everything else: "No additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the requirements of this Act or any amendment made by this Act." The Act creates or reshapes dozens of programs, pilots and studies, but — with the notable exception of the Innovation Fund’s $200 million-a-year authorization in Section 208 — it supplies no new authorized funding, so implementation depends on annual appropriations and existing agency budgets.Read the breakdown
Source: Enrolled bill text, H.R. 6644 (govinfo) (opens in a new tab) · Section numbers as enacted · reviewed Aug 29, 2026
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Already law — no guidance needed to start.Why: Section 104 adds the database to the CDBG grantee certifications effective October 1, 2026; the statute does not define "undeveloped" and no HUD guidance had been located as of August 29, 2026.
Why: Section 213 reallocates CDBG among entitlements through FY2043 based on Census address-count data; the adjustment is binary around the median.
Why: Section 504 codifies CDBG-DR with a new formula program, a 70% low- and moderate-income benefit floor, and a three-year sunset (July 11, 2029).
Rest of 2026
Deadlines and data calls landing before year-end.Why: Section 503 lets HUD grant the waiver within 60 days but requires denial for recipients that relocate people without offering shelter or housing options.
2027
Decisions that wait on agency notices or appropriations.Why: Section 208 grants of $250,000 to $10 million go to localities and tribes with "objective improvement in housing supply growth"; the program must exist by July 11, 2027 and sunsets in 2033.
Why: HUD must establish the program within a year of enactment; it sunsets July 11, 2031 and has no dollar authorization.
Why: Section 204 makes new construction an eligible activity that counts toward low- and moderate-income benefit.
Why: Section 210 gives priority to distressed areas, Opportunity Zones, and jurisdictions that enacted conversion-barrier reductions.
Watch
Nothing to do yet — keep an eye on rulemaking and NOFOs.Why: Section 209 is authorized but subject to appropriations; South Bend-style pattern books have documented per-project savings.
Why: Both are voluntary, but the protections differ. Only Section 107(e) promises that HUD will not take adverse action against, or withhold otherwise-offered services from, a jurisdiction that declines to adopt a guideline. Section 102’s rule of construction is a different kind of assurance — nothing in it preempts a state or local building code. Either way, both products will shape grant competitiveness.
Deadlines that matter to you
| Deadline | Section | Agency | Action | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 202625 days ago | Sec. 504 | HUD | Publish a Federal Register notice with the latest CDBG-DR unmet-need formula allocation methodologies and solicit public comment on them (new HCDA §124(a)(4)).Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this sectionIssued three days late: HUD published the notice at 91 FR 52314 on Aug 13, 2026 (Docket FR-6337-N-02). It keeps the January 2025 formula in place for now and asks nine questions; comments are due Sep 14, 2026 (regulations.gov docket HUD-2022-0084). This is the only Federal Register document so far that formally implements a provision of the Act — though not for long: the FDIC Board approved an interim final rule implementing §902 on August 27, 2026, which awaits Federal Register publication. | Issued |
| Sep 9, 2026in 5 days | Sec. 213 | HUD | Notify every eligible CDBG recipient of its "housing growth improvement rate" and whether it is above, at, or below the median, and share best-practice guidance on reducing regulatory barriers (Build Now Act).Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this ActNo public HUD announcement or CPD notice yet. Notifications may go directly to grantees, so absence from the public record does not prove they have not been sent. The allocation adjustments themselves take effect "beginning with the third full fiscal year after the date of enactment" (§213(e)(2)) — on a plain count from a July 11, 2026 enactment that is FY2029, which begins October 1, 2028. Some summaries read it as FY2030; the open-questions list tracks the disagreement. | Unknown |
| Oct 1, 2026in 27 days | Sec. 104 | HUD | New CDBG certification takes effect: each grantee must maintain a publicly accessible, searchable database of all undeveloped land it owns. HUD (CPD) will need to fold the requirement into grantee certifications and monitoring.The amendment made by this subsection shall take effect on October 1, 2026No CPD guidance on the database requirement has been published as of late August 2026. | Not started |
| Jan 7, 2027in 125 days | Sec. 501 | HUD | Complete a review of how Build America, Buy America (BABA) applies to HOME-assisted activities; issue updated guidance within 90 days after the review; report to Congress by the 270-day mark (§501(m)).Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this ActNo CPD announcement. Follow-on: updated guidance 90 days after the review; report due Apr 7, 2027. | Not started |
| Jan 11, 2027in 129 days | Sec. 504 | HUD | After consulting FEMA, SBA, and other agencies, publish proposed rules to carry out the new HCDA §124 CDBG-DR authorization (a 3-year program that sunsets July 11, 2029) with a 90-day public comment period; final rules follow at the one-year mark.Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this ActThe Aug 13, 2026 formula notice says HUD will keep using the January 2025 formula until it publishes an updated notice or completes rulemaking. No NPRM yet. | Not started |
| Jul 11, 2027in 310 days | Sec. 207 | HUD | Establish a competitive grant program for planning and implementation activities associated with affordable housing (not construction). The program sunsets five years after enactment.Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this ActNot established; no appropriation identified. Watch FY2027 THUD. | Not started |
| Jul 11, 2027in 310 days | Sec. 208 | HUD | Establish the Innovation Fund: competitive grants to eligible entities that have increased local housing supply, with a public list of eligible entities. The program sunsets seven years after enactment; $200 million per year is authorized for FY2027-FY2031.Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this ActNot established. Whether Congress appropriates the authorized amount for FY2027 is unknown as of late August 2026. | Not started |
| Jul 11, 2027in 310 days | Sec. 301 | HUD | States submit an initial certification that their laws treat manufactured homes without a permanent chassis in parity with chassis-built homes (financing, title, insurance, manufacture, sale, taxes, transportation, installation); HUD publishes and maintains a Federal Register and website list of states that are current. States with biennial legislatures get two years.Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing ActThis is the date that carries a real consequence: under new NMHCSSA §604(i)(5)(B), a State that fails to certify must itself prohibit the manufacture, installation, or sale of covered chassis-less manufactured homes within the State. No HUD certification form or guidance to states yet, and HUD has not said how it will reconcile its June 12, 2026 proposed rule (which lifted the chassis requirement only for upper floors) with §301. | Not started |
| Jul 11, 2027in 310 days | Sec. 501 | HUD | Issue two HOME rules: one carrying out the new infrastructure eligibility (§501(e)) and one on environmental review coordination and recognition of prior reviews for infill projects (§501(l)).Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this ActNo ROAD-specific rulemaking has been announced. A vehicle already exists, though: HUD has an open HOME rulemaking — Docket FR-6144 / RIN 2506-AC50, most recently a proposed rule at 91 FR 23194 (Apr. 30, 2026), carried in the 2026 Unified Agenda at final-rule stage — which is the obvious place to carry the §501(e) and §501(l) rules. Because it is at final-rule stage its comment window has closed, so if HUD uses it the public may not get another opportunity to comment. Whether HUD intends to is unknown. | Not started |
| Jul 11, 2027in 310 days | Sec. 504 | HUD | Issue final regulations for the 3-year CDBG-DR program (HCDA §124). The §124 program itself sunsets three years after enactment (July 11, 2029) unless Congress acts.Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this ActDepends on the Jan 11, 2027 NPRM and its 90-day comment period. | Not started |
| Jan 11, 2028in 494 days | Sec. 102 | HUD | Issue guidelines with model code language, best practices, and technical guidance to help states, territories, Tribes, and localities permit point-access block (single-stair) residential buildings.Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this sectionNothing announced. The related grant program in §102 sunsets seven years after enactment. | Not started |
| Jul 11, 2028in 676 days | Sec. 206 | HUD | Begin five years of annual reports to Congress on reductions in environmental review times and administrative costs from the streamlining actions in §206, with recommendations on categorical exclusions. The reclassification actions themselves require notice-and-comment rulemaking (24 CFR Parts 50/58) with no fixed statutory date.An annual report during the 5-year period beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of this ActNo Part 58 NPRM published as of late August 2026. | Not started |
| Jul 11, 2028in 676 days | Sec. 107 | HUD | During the two years after enactment, the Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research must (A) publish draft zoning-framework guidelines and best practices in the Federal Register for public comment and (B) establish a task force — urban planners, architects, affordable, market-rate, manufactured and cooperative housing developers, public housing agencies, transit authorities, State officials, academics, home builders, and community-engagement experts.During the 2-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this ActThe clock is running now, and this is the public’s comment opportunity on the zoning guidelines — the draft must go in the Federal Register before the final guidelines are due in July 2029. No task-force announcement or draft notice as of late August 2026. | Not started |
| Oct 1, 2028in 758 days | Sec. 213 | HUD | Build Now Act CDBG allocation adjustments (bonuses and reductions tied to housing growth improvement rates) begin with the third full fiscal year after enactment (FY2029) and run through FY2043; they do not apply to funds appropriated before enactment.Shall take effect beginning with the third full fiscal year after the date of enactment of this Act and remain in effect through fiscal year 2043The statute says the adjustments "shall take effect beginning with the third full fiscal year after the date of enactment" (§213(e)(2)). Enactment falls in FY2026, so FY2027 is the first full fiscal year after it, FY2028 the second and FY2029 the third — the date shown is the start of FY2029. Some summaries read it as FY2030; the open-questions list tracks the disagreement, and no HUD document takes a position. | Not started |
| Jul 11, 2029in 1041 days | Sec. 107 | HUD | The Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research publishes guidelines and best practices for state and local zoning frameworks; a report to Congress on adoption follows five years after the final guidelines.Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this ActThe final guidelines are the end of a process whose first stage is already running — see the two-year draft-guidelines and task-force obligations under §107(b)(2). | Not started |
Source: Enrolled bill text, H.R. 6644 (govinfo) (opens in a new tab) · Status as of Aug 29, 2026; day counts relative to Sep 4, 2026 (Eastern)
Full implementation trackerWatch-outs
Funding is the catch: the House FY2027 THUD bill kept CDBG flat at $3.3 billion, cut HOME to $500 million, and had no line for the Innovation Fund, planning grants, pattern books, RESIDE, or single-stair pilots; the Senate bill had not been released as of late August 2026.
Build Now start year: §213(e)(2) says the adjustments "shall take effect beginning with the third full fiscal year after the date of enactment." Counting from a July 11, 2026 enactment (FY2026), that is FY2029, which begins October 1, 2028 — the reading this hub uses. Some summaries say FY2030, and no HUD document has taken a position, so treat the year as unsettled until HUD publishes its reading.
The House-passed requirement to report on 22 categories of land-use policy was dropped; the only land-use mandate left is the public-land database.
Build Now applies to entitlement grantees only — states and non-entitlement communities are not covered — and NACo estimates most entitlement counties would likely be exempt.
HUD staffing: Urban Institute counts at least 35 new HUD duties with no added money for staffing after a 24% FY2026 cut, so expect slow NOFOs and rules.
Resources for you
Full library- bill textGovInfo (GPO) · Jun 25, 2026H.R. 6644 — Enrolled bill text (21st Century ROAD to Housing Act) (opens in a new tab)
The enrolled text as sent to the President — the version this hub quotes. Use it to check any section heading, deadline, or dollar figure.
- explainerBipartisan Policy Center · Mar 10, 2026BPC — What’s in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act? (opens in a new tab)
BPC’s explainer of the merged Senate text (March 2026). Section numbers here pre-date the House amendment — check against the enrolled text.
- trackerBipartisan Policy Center · Jul 20, 2026BPC — 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act Implementation Tracker (opens in a new tab)
Deadline-by-deadline tracker of required agency actions (e.g., investor restriction effective Jan 7, 2027; program sunsets from 2031). Updated periodically.
- explainerSenate Banking Committee · Mar 2, 2026Fact sheet — housing supply (opens in a new tab)
One-pager on the Innovation Fund, zoning frameworks, RESIDE, and other supply provisions.
- agency guidanceHUD / Federal Register · Aug 13, 2026HUD notice on the CDBG-DR allocation formula (Docket FR-6337-N-02) (opens in a new tab)
The first action on a statutory deadline under the Act (Sec. 504, Reforming Disaster Recovery Act), published three days after the August 10 due date. Comments due Sep 14, 2026.
- explainerSmart Growth America · Jul 15, 2026Smart Growth America — Reflecting on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (opens in a new tab)
Advocacy analysis of what’s in the law and what comes next for land use.
- explainerNational Council of State Housing Agencies · Mar 6, 2026NCSHA — Key changes to HOME in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (opens in a new tab)
Details the HOME reauthorization changes (commitment deadline repeal, CHDO recapture, infrastructure eligibility).
- press releaseInclusive Abundance / Up for Growth Action · Jun 23, 2026227 pro-housing organizations thank Congress for the housing bill (opens in a new tab)
The pro-housing coalition letter on final passage.
- explainerNational Association of Home Builders · Aug 14, 2026NAHB — Key land-use and zoning provisions in the ROAD Act (opens in a new tab)
Builder-oriented walk-through of the Sec. 107 housing supply frameworks and related grants.
- explainerNational Association of REALTORS® · Aug 11, 2026NAR — What the Act means for states, localities and housing supply (opens in a new tab)
Realtor explainer aimed at state and local officials.
- explainerNational League of Cities · Aug 10, 2026NLC — 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act resource hub (opens in a new tab)
City-focused hub with FAQs, bill text, articles, and the CitiesSpeak podcast.
- explainerNational League of Cities · Aug 10, 2026NLC — 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act FAQs (opens in a new tab)
Deadlines for the housing supply frameworks and the mechanics of the Sec. 213 CDBG growth bonus/penalty.
4 more tagged for cities, counties & regional planners in the full library.
FAQ for you
All questions & glossaryWhere this guide comes from
- Enrolled text of H.R. 6644 (govinfo) (opens in a new tab)
- NLC: ten things for local leaders (July 2, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- NACo on the Senate-passed bill (Mar 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- HUD CDBG-DR formula notice (Aug 13, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
- BPC implementation tracker (opens in a new tab)
Guide reviewed August 29, 2026. Not legal or compliance advice — confirm against the enacted text and agency guidance before acting.
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