Federal funding expands housing support coordinators for elderly, disabled residents
H.R. 5057 — Expanding Service Coordinators Act of 2025 · Filed by Adam Smith (D-WA) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Aug 26, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill expands federal funding and programs for service coordinators in federally assisted housing projects—staff who help residents access supportive services like healthcare, job training, and social programs. It authorizes $225 million over five years for existing and new coordinator programs, creates new competitive grant programs for elderly housing and rural properties, makes service coordinator work eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and prohibits HUD from imposing extra requirements on housing projects that receive coordinator funding.
Why we flagged it
The bill's core mechanism is direct federal funding for service coordinator positions in low-income housing, paired with regulatory relief for participating housing operators. It is a straightforward social-support and housing-stability measure, not a tax carve-out, deregulation, or commemorative provision.
What the text implies
- The prohibition on 'additional requirements' in exchange for coordinator funding (Section 2(a)(g)) may reduce HUD's ability to enforce compliance with other housing standards, though the carve-out for 'reasonable reporting, monitoring, or compliance activities' preserves core oversight.
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility for service coordinators (Section 3) may incentivize hiring of coordinators with student debt, but creates a long-term federal liability if coordinator positions become permanent and widespread.
- The bill prioritizes elderly and disabled residents and rural/persistent-poverty areas, but does not mandate that all federally assisted housing projects participate—uptake and equity of access across regions and property types will depend on grant competition and operator willingness.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Residents of federally assisted housing—predominantly low-income, elderly, and disabled populations—gain direct access to coordinators who help them navigate healthcare, employment, and social services, improving housing stability and well-being. The prohibition on additional HUD requirements reduces regulatory burden on housing operators, which may lower costs and encourage participation, indirectly benefiting residents through program expansion.
Who stands to gain
- federally assisted housing project owners and operators (funding for coordinator salaries and traini
- service coordinators (employment and loan forgiveness eligibility)
- HRSA and Rural Housing Service (grant administration funding)
Named in the bill
HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development), HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration), Rural Housing Service, Section 202 elderly housing program, Section 515 rural housing program, Section 8 housing assistance, Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Democrats.
- Aug 26, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Aug 26, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce and House Committee on Financial Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $840,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 28 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Adam Smith, the sponsor, reported $612,574 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- American Health Care Association — $840,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 20, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (8,994 characters) on Sep 7, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,398 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-23.
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