Pentagon studies cheaper military housing building designs.
H.R. 9564 — Military Housing Innovation Act · Filed by Scott Peters (D-CA) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 30, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill tells the Pentagon to study a building design called point-access block. This design uses one stairwell to serve all units. Buildings can be up to six stories tall. The study will check if this design costs less money. It will check if it helps service members afford housing. It will check if buildings stay safe.
Who it affects
Service members and their families could get cheaper housing if the study works out. The bill only orders a study right now.
One thing to notice
The study must check safety before any rules change. The bill protects people's safety while looking for ways to save money.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 2 Republicans.
- Jun 30, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 30, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $50,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Scott Peters, who sponsored the bill, received $1,174,750 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Picerne Military Housing A/k/a Corvias Group — $50,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- point-access block — A building design where one stairwell serves all units.
- service members — People who work in the military.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the full bill text on Jul 6, 2026; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 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 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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