Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act
Current understanding
The Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act (P.L. 119-70) amends the Housing and Community Development Act to exclude military service-connected disability compensation from income calculations used to determine eligibility for CDBG-funded activities, potentially qualifying more disabled veterans for low- and moderate-income CDBG benefits. It also directs GAO to review and report on how all HUD programs treat service-connected disability compensation in income determinations, setting up potential future cross-program alignment. Status: enacted.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-23 — A bill to require all newly constructed, federally assisted, single-family houses and town houses to meet minimum standards of visitability for persons with disabilities.: cross-connection with visitability-standards-federally-assisted-housing: Complementary disability-focused housing measures: visitability standards would expand accessible single-family stock available to disabled veterans receiving federal housing assistance. (novelty: 3)
- 2026-01-20 — Disabled Veterans Housing Support Act: cross-connection with veteran-housing-assistance: Statutory income exclusion for service-connected disability compensation strengthens veteran access to CDBG-funded housing assistance. (novelty: 3)