S 3503
115th Congress
Senate
Housing and Community Development
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Appropriations
Banking and financial institutions regulation
Building construction
Consumer credit
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Energy efficiency and conservation
Financial crises and stabilization
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Housing and community development funding
Housing discrimination
Housing finance and home ownership
Housing supply and affordability
Indian social and development programs
Labor standards
Land use and conservation
Community Reinvestment Reform Act of 2018
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 26, 2018
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 26, 2018
Introduced in Senate
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Plain-English summary
American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2018
This bill addresses housing affordability and access by
- establishing a Local Housing Innovation grant program to support efforts to remove barriers to affordable housing;
- reauthorizing and increasing funding for various specified housing programs;
- establishing a Middle Class Housing Emergency Fund to support the construction of affordable rental-housing units;
- establishing a down-payment assistance program;
- establishing a formula grant program to assist borrowers who have negative equity in their homes;
- expanding the applicability, and increasing the penalties for violations, of certain requirements for financial institutions to help meet the credit needs of lower-income communities;
- expanding certain protections under the Fair Housing Act; and
- otherwise revising provisions related to housing assistance.
The bill also lowers estate-tax thresholds, establishes new tax rates above those thresholds, and otherwise modifies provisions related to transfer taxes.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3503: American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2018. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-3503/
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