Senator Blunt Rochester Introduces Housing Affordability Legislation
Expanding access to affordable homeownership, Delaware Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester has introduced the Permanent Housing Affordability Act in Washington. The bill would use federal seed funding to boost the supply of permanently affordable homes through shared equity programs. Key provisions include creating a national fund for low-cost construction loans, launching grants to purchase land for affordable housing, allowing discounted transfer of surplus federal property to community land trusts, and directing HUD to study and promote shared equity housing models.
Additional Information from the Office of Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester:
In September 2025, she introduced “The New Way Home Agenda: A Federal Framework to Address America’s Housing Crisis,” her comprehensive legislative agenda to lower housing costs in Delaware and across the nation. In March 2026, the Senate passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, a landmark bipartisan housing package that contains two of Senator Blunt Rochester’s bills aimed at increasing housing supply and lowering costs nationwide.
A one pager on the bill is available here. Full text is available here.