Bills
- Source: GovInfo BILLS collection
- Filter: bills whose text mentions homelessness terms, 2010-2025
- Result: 2,758 unique bills
Policymaking · Bills to Votes
How homelessness gets legislated: the bills introduced in Congress, who sponsors them, which ones lobbying groups target, and how members vote when a bill reaches the floor.
A bill starts when a member of Congress (its sponsor) introduces it; others sign on as co-sponsors. It is referred to a committee, where most bills quietly die. A small share are reported out, debated, and put to a floor vote in the House and Senate. If both chambers pass it and the President signs, it becomes law: often by riding inside a larger appropriations or omnibus package rather than passing on its own.
This page follows homelessness legislation along that path, and connects it back to the lobbying we tracked: which bills interest groups actually name in their filings.
Four sources, joined on the bill:
The members who introduced the most homelessness bills, and the party balance of all sponsors. Sponsor = the member who introduced the bill.
A bipartite network: the most-cosponsored homelessness bills (gold squares) and the members who (co)sponsor at least three of them (dots, colored by party). The recurring "homelessness caucus" is overwhelmingly Democratic: 148 of the 158 regulars, with only 10 Republican exceptions. Hover a node for details.
The homelessness bills most often named in lobbying filings (click to open on Congress.gov):
When a homelessness measure reaches the floor, how do the parties split? Across all matched roll calls, homelessness votes are mostly bipartisan: the bars below show yea/nay by party.