Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to set up a hotline within one year that gives tenants in federally assisted rental housing help with eviction-related matters, and authorizes appropriations for it.

Official title: Eviction Helpline Act

Next stop House floor: awaiting a vote

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House

Introduced 31-OCT-2025

Referred 31-OCT-2025

Approved by committee 16-SEP-2026

Key points

Requires HUD to establish a hotline within one year of enactment to help tenants with eviction-related matters
Limits eligibility to tenants of covered federally assisted rental dwelling units, including public housing, Section 8, HOME, and other HUD-administered programs, as well as properties with federally backed mortgages
Authorizes such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2026 and each year after

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Policy area

Housing and Community Development

Sponsor Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) Cosponsors · 2

■ 2 D

2 Democrats

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