On May 9, ACTION sent a letter to congressional leadership in support of the Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2025 (AHCIA, S. 1515 / H.R. 2725) signed by over 2,600 organizations, businesses, and public entities. The signatories urge Members of Congress to support the legislation through cosponsorship and encourage them to include the bill’s provisions to expand and strengthen the Housing Credit in this year’s reconciliation package.
Congressional affordable housing champions Representatives Darin LaHood (R-IL-16), Suzan DelBene (D-WA-01), Claudia Tenney (R-NY-24), Don Beyer (D-VA-08), Randy Feenstra (R-IA-04), and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19), and Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the AHCIA of 2025 last month. Currently, the AHCIA has 131 cosponsors in the House and 34 cosponsors in the Senate, including leads, a record-breaking level of initial support. In the last Congress, nearly 60% of Congress cosponsored the bill. We need your advocacy to continue building our support now. Please reach out to your Members of Congress with this letter and show them the depth of support for the Housing Credit.
The AHCIA helps address the country’s severe shortage of affordable rental housing by protecting, expanding, and strengthening the Housing Credit. According to estimates, the production provisions would finance nearly 1.6 million additional affordable rental homes over ten years. The bill also contains about two dozen other regulatory and administrative improvements to the program, enumerated in the detailed bill summary.
The ACTION Campaign supports both the passage of the AHCIA and the inclusion of the AHCIA’s production provisions in the 2025 tax package. With many provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to expire at the end of this year, and the House Ways and Means Committee preparing to consider the tax portion of the budget reconciliation next week, there is no better time to reach out to Congress and underscore the importance of including the AHCIA’s production provisions in the tax package to address the affordable housing shortage.
For more information on the AHCIA, including national, state, and district fact sheets, please visit our Advocacy Toolkit on ACTION’s website.
