S. 3969Senate119th Congress (2025-2027)In Committee

Improving Housing Access Act

A bill to direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study that identifies options to remove barriers and improve housing for persons who are elderly or disabled.

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The Improving Housing Access Act directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study, due within a year, that looks for ways to reduce obstacles and enhance housing options for seniors and people with disabilities. The study will also consider how giving capital advances to existing supportive‑housing programs for the elderly (Section 202) and for disabled persons (Section 811) might affect housing outcomes.

Key Provisions

The Comptroller General must complete a study within one year of the law’s enactment.
The study must identify ways to remove barriers and improve housing for elderly and disabled people.
It must examine the potential effects of providing capital advances to two existing supportive‑housing programs: the elderly‑housing program under Section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 and the disability‑housing program under Section 811 of the Cranston‑Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee

March 3, 2026

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Introduced in Senate

March 3, 2026

SenateIntro Referral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee

March 3, 2026

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Introduced in SenateIssued March 3, 2026

119th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. 3969

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 3, 2026

Mr. Ricketts introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

A BILL

To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study that identifies options to remove barriers and improve housing for persons who are elderly or disabled.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Improving Housing Access Act.

Improving housing for the elderly and disabled

The Comptroller General of the United States shall, not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this section, conduct a study that identifies options to remove barriers and improve housing for persons who are elderly or disabled, including any potential impacts of providing capital advances for—

(1)

the program for supportive housing for the elderly under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959; and

(2)

the program for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act.