HR 4921
PUPP Act of 2025
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Bill overview
The Providing for Unhoused People and Pets Act of 2025 authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide grants to local governments, nonprofits, and other organizations to modify and upgrade existing structures into interim or permanent housing for homeless individuals and families who have pets. These grants can be used for property acquisition, renovation, pet-related costs, and staff training, and the housing must offer supportive services, veterinary care, and coordinate with local animal welfare providers. The act also requires reporting on program activities and effectiveness.
Key provisions
- Grants for renovating existing structures into housing for homeless individuals and families with pets.
- Funding for pet-related costs, including veterinary care and behavioral support.
- Requirement for supportive services such as mental health and employment assistance.
- Mandatory coordination with Continuum of Care agencies and local animal care providers.
- Application process requiring a detailed plan outlining housing locations, needs assessments, and partnerships.
- Reporting requirements for grant recipients to track program activities and effectiveness.
- Eligible entities include local governments, nonprofits, and organizations providing housing for homeless individuals.
- Authorization of $5,000,000 annually from 2026-2030.
Who is affected
- Homeless individuals
- Homeless families
- Animal welfare organizations
- Local governments
- Nonprofit organizations
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119th CONGRESS — 1st Session
H. R. 4921
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to modify and upgrade structures to serve as interim and permanent housing to accommodate unhoused individuals with pets, and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Providing for Unhoused People and Pets Act of 2025 PUPP Act of 2025
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costs of acquiring, renovating, rehabilitating, re-purposing, retrofitting, or constructing a property to be used as interim or permanent housing that accommodates homeless persons, and homeless families, who have pets;
pet-related costs of operating such housing as provided in this section; and
Interim or permanent housing assisted with amounts from a grant under this Act shall comply with the following requirements:
Services required under this paragraph shall be made available on-site in such housing, except that services that cannot be furnished on-site may be made available off-site, but only if direct linkage to transportation services is made available to occupants to access such services.
The manager of the housing shall—
in making occupancy available in the housing, coordinate with the administrative entity for the Continuum of Care under subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) for the area in which the housing is located.
A plan under this paragraph shall—
provide for targeted outreach to individuals experiencing homelessness within the area served by the eligible entity receiving a grant under this section to inform such individuals regarding the availability of the housing assisted with grant amounts.
The Secretary shall select applications to be awarded such grants on a competitive basis, based on criteria that the Secretary shall establish.
Identification of the costs of each of the services provided in connection with the housing assisted with such grant amounts.
An assessment of the effectiveness of the program grants under this section and any recommendations for improving the program.
a unit of general local government;
a nonprofit organization; and
an entity providing housing or shelters for homeless persons.
The term homeless has the meaning given such term in section 103 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302).
The term interim housing means any housing or shelter that does not provide permanent housing. Such term includes transitional housing (as such term is defined in such section 401) and emergency shelters (as such term is defined in section 321 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 13351)).
The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture.
The term unit of general local government has the meaning given such term in the first sentence of paragraph (1) of section 102(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302(a)(1)).
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2030.