H.R. 10010: Build Homes, Not Hate Act of 2026

This bill would direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to create a new grant program within one year to help address homelessness and housing shortages. The program would give money to states, local governments, tribes, public housing agencies, nonprofits, and groups made up of those entities.

What the grants could pay for

The bill sets aside the money for two main purposes:

• Housing development: At least $54 billion would go to creating new housing units. This could include building new homes, using modular or manufactured housing, buying and fixing up existing buildings, converting hotels, motels, offices, or other underused properties into housing, preserving existing affordable housing, and paying for related items like land, infrastructure, environmental cleanup, accessibility changes, and operating reserves.

• Homelessness services: At least $14 billion would go to direct homelessness response, supportive housing, and transitional services. This could include emergency shelters, rental assistance, rapid rehousing, prevention services, housing navigation, case management, behavioral health and substance use treatment, job services, transportation help, services for domestic violence survivors, youth and veterans, disability-related services, and help replacing important documents.

How the program would work

FEMA could distribute grants by formula, by competition, or using both methods. The bill says priority should go to communities with high levels of unsheltered homelessness, chronic homelessness, or severe housing cost burdens, including places where rents have risen sharply.

Federal funding and limits

The bill would allow the federal government to pay up to 100% of a project’s costs under this program, meaning local recipients would not necessarily need to provide matching funds. It also says the new money must supplement, not replace, other federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, or private funding already available for housing and homelessness programs.

Administrative costs and oversight

Up to $2 billion could be used for administration, technical assistance, data systems, oversight, inspections, capacity building, and program integrity measures.

Restrictions on how the money could be used

The bill prohibits these funds from being used for immigration enforcement, detention, removal operations, border wall construction, surveillance for immigration enforcement purposes, or reimbursement of immigration enforcement costs.

Funding source

The bill would appropriate $70 billion to FEMA for fiscal year 2027, with the money available through September 30, 2032. It would also permanently rescind $70 billion from unobligated balances previously made available to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under specified provisions of Public Law 119-21.

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