Congresswoman Lee Announces $466,000 in Federal Funding to Lower Housing Costs
Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) announced a $466,000 federal investment in Nevada H.A.N.D. to address Nevada’s housing shortage and lower costs.
“I hear from southern Nevadans daily who are struggling to keep a roof over their head and keep up with rising housing costs. We need to build more housing, especially housing that hardworking families can afford,” said Congresswoman Susie Lee. “This investment will help do just that—lower housing costs and increase our housing supply while also creating jobs and uplifting communities.”
Congresswoman Lee helped secure $158 million in federal funding to support NeighborWorks America in the FY 2026 Appropriations bill. This FY 2026 grant funding from NeighborWorks will catalyze efforts to lower the cost of housing and expand the nation's housing supply, support vibrant economic opportunities, revitalize and sustain neighborhoods to build stronger and safer communities, and create jobs. In FY 2025 alone, NeighborWorks invested over $96 million in Nevada, provided 6,439 housing and counseling services, and created and/or maintained over 700 jobs in the state. That same year, the NeighborWorks network attracted $74 in additional investment for each dollar of the federal appropriation.
Congresswoman Lee has consistently worked to build more housing families can afford across southern Nevada. She led and got signed into law the bipartisan Accelerating Appraisals and Conservation Efforts (AACE) Act to speed up appraisals and approvals for Nevada housing projects and cut governmental red tape that drives up housing costs. Congresswoman Lee is also a cosponsor of the Housing Oversight and Mitigating Exploitation (HOME) Act to help lower housing costs for Nevadans by cracking down on price gouging by corporate investors who are buying up housing stock and driving up home prices. She also helped pass the Housing for the 21st Century Act, a bipartisan housing package that makes long overdue improvements to federal housing programs in order to increase housing supply and lower costs for American families.
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