House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced

Housing Is a Human Right Act of 2025

H.R. 4457Introduced Jul 16, 2025Policy area: Housing and Community Development

Official title: To address root causes of homelessness, meet the needs of community members experiencing harms from homelessness, transition communities towards providing housing for all, end penalization of homelessness, and ensure full democratic participation and inclusion of persons experiencing homelessness, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Rep. Pramila Jayapal D-WA

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Where it went

IntroducedJul 16, 2025
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Passed Senate—
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Latest action: Jul 16, 2025 — Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, the Judiciary, Education and Workforce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4457.

Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Ms. JAYAPAL, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 122, July 16, 2025, Page H3368):
This bill is enacted pursuant to the power granted to Congress under Article I of the United States Constitution and its subsequent amendments, and further clarified and interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

30 cosponsors — 30 Democrats

0 of 30 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.

Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ), André Carson (D-IN), Greg Casar (D-TX), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Jesús García (D-IL), Daniel Goldman (D-NY), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Summer Lee (D-PA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY), James McGovern (D-MA), LaMonica McIver (D-NJ), Grace Meng (D-NY), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Delia Ramirez (D-IL), Lateefah Simon (D-CA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Shri Thanedar (D-MI), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).

More from the sponsor

Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Sponsor’s state and district

Washington in Congress · WA-7 district

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