Congress funds housing-plus-childcare for low-income families.
S. 310 — Build Housing with Care Act of 2025 · Filed by Ron Wyden (D-OR) · 8 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 29, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill creates a $100 million annual grant program (2026–2031) to help organizations build or renovate housing that includes on-site or nearby child care. Eligible recipients include nonprofits, housing developers, public housing authorities, and community development organizations. Grants prioritize projects in areas with child care shortages, serving low-income families, and partnering with community lenders. The bill also directs the Government Accountability Office to study child care access and affordability for public housing residents.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is a straightforward federal grant program to fund the design and construction of housing with integrated child care. It is a direct public investment in addressing two linked affordability crises, with no hidden mechanisms or narrow beneficiaries.
What the text implies
- GAO study (Section 5) may reveal systemic barriers in zoning, licensing, and financing that currently prevent child care co-location—findings could drive future regulatory or legislative action.
- Program prioritizes CDFIs and community development entities, potentially strengthening the ecosystem of mission-driven lenders and nonprofits in underserved markets.
- Requirement that child care providers be eligible for federal vouchers/Head Start ties program to existing subsidy infrastructure; providers serving unsubsidized families may be excluded.
- Long-term leasing as an eligible use (subsection e(1)) may create ongoing operational costs not fully captured in the grant authorization; sustainability depends on continued funding or provider revenue.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Low-income families gain direct access to affordable child care co-located with housing, reducing transportation costs and time burdens. The program prioritizes child care deserts and very-low-income households, addressing a documented market failure where private providers do not serve these populations profitably.
Who stands to gain
- nonprofit housing developers
- community development financial institutions
- public housing authorities
- community development corporations
- eligible child care providers (nonprofits and for-profits meeting federal standards)
Named in the bill
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of Health and Human Services (Administration for Children and Families), Department of the Treasury (Community Development Financial Institutions Fund), Department of Agriculture (Rural Development), Government Accountability Office (GAO), Community Development Financial Institutions, Public Housing Authorities, Indian Tribes and Tribal Organizations, Community Development Corporations, Head Start programs, Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990
Where it stands
8 cosponsors: 8 Democrats.
- Jan 29, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jan 29, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs”
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 $119,592 in lobbying spend. A filing names 18 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.
Ron Wyden, the sponsor, reported $375,070 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families — $119,592 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 (14,991 characters) on May 21, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 2026-10-20.
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