{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hoyle.house.gov/media/press-releases/congress-passes-rep-hoyles-language-for-affordable-housing", "Congress Passes Rep. Hoyle\u2019s Language for Affordable Housing", "2026-06-23", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "House", "OR", "Val T. Hoyle", "H001094", "hoyle.house.gov", "hoyle", "https://hoyle.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Included in passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 In a win for all Americans, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, bipartisan legislation to address housing affordability and increase the supply of homes across the country has passed both chambers of Congress. The Senate passed the bill late last night, and the U.S. House of Representatives passed it today.\n\nRep. Hoyle successfully pushed for the inclusion of language from the Decent, Affordable, Safe Housing for All Act (DASH Act) in the final bill. That language will expand rural housing vouchers and help repair aging properties in rural communities.\n\nRep. Hoyle made the following statement after the bill passed the House:\n\n\u201cThis is a great first step toward expanding affordable housing. For too long, rural communities have been left behind in the housing affordability crisis. Oregonians\u2014and Americans across urban, suburban and rural communities alike \u2014 are being priced out of their homes, and it\u2019s hurting families and communities. No one should have to struggle to keep a roof over their head, and no one should be forced to leave a community they love because they can\u2019t afford to live there.\n\nThere\u2019s still more to be done, and I\u2019ll keep fighting to get the rest of the DASH Act signed into law.\u201d\n\nDetailed provisions from the DASH Act included in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act are below:\n\nMakes the Multi-Family Housing Preservation and Revitalization (MPR) program permanent, helping preserve and improve existing rural rental housing while keeping rents affordable for tenants.\n\nExpands access to rural housing vouchers so more low-income households can qualify when certain federally financed rural housing properties leave the program.\n\nClarifies how rural housing voucher amounts are calculated to prevent ambiguity about what assistance people will receive\n\nAllows property owners six months to reassign unused rental assistance to another eligible tenant. If it is not used during that time, the assistance is transferred to eligible families in other rural housing properties. This prevents assistance from disappearing and ensures it keeps serving rural low-income families somewhere else in the program.\n\nThe full bill text for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act can be found here: https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/bill_text_of_the_21st_century_road_to_housing_act.pdf\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-24T06:25:30Z", "2026-06-24T06:26:49Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hoyle.house.gov/media/press-releases/congress-passes-rep-hoyles-language-for-affordable-housing"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0204389691352844, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}