Federal Property Redevelopment Pilot and Grant Program

What This Bill Does

This bill would let the General Services Administration, working with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, create a pilot program and grants to help sell or transfer underused federal property for economic redevelopment. The goal is to move idle government land and buildings into productive use by eligible local or community entities.

For ordinary Americans, the bill could help turn vacant or underused federal sites into housing, businesses, public facilities, or other local projects that create jobs and strengthen neighborhoods. It may also reduce the costs of maintaining empty federal properties while giving communities a path to reuse valuable land.

Who This Bill Affects

For the general public, the bill could lead to more productive use of vacant federal properties, potentially supporting local redevelopment, housing, and job creation in communities where such sites exist. Its effects would be concentrated in places with underused federal land or buildings.

Latest Status

May 22, 2026

Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Financial Services, 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.