RESIDE Act funding: has Congress paid for the pilot, and when can cities apply?

The RESIDE Act is law, but it has no money. As of October 28, 2026, Congress had appropriated nothing for the pilot and HUD had published no notice of funding opportunity, so no state or city can apply yet. Here is what has to happen first, and where each step stands.

Checked against the enacted text of Public Law 119-101 · Updated October 28, 2026

At a glance

Is it funded?: No. As of October 28, 2026, no law had appropriated money for the RESIDE pilot.
Can cities apply?: Not yet. HUD had published no notice of funding opportunity, rule or guidance for it, in the Federal Register or on Grants.gov.
What the law provides: An authorization, not money: HUD may run the pilot in fiscal years 2027 through 2031 “subject to the availability of funds appropriated.” The Act names no dollar amount for it.
Fiscal year 2027 so far: A continuing resolution (Public Law 119-103) funds HUD through December 11, 2026. It carries nothing for RESIDE and bars starting activities that had no money in fiscal year 2026.
Who would apply: HOME participating jurisdictions: states and local governments, not developers or building owners.
Grant size: $1 million to $10 million each in a year Congress provides at least $100 million; with less, HUD must seek to maximize the number of grants awarded.

What has to happen before cities can apply

Two steps stand between the statute and an application: an appropriation from Congress and a funding notice from HUD.

Status of each step as of October 28, 2026.
Step	Status	Checked against
Congress authorizes the pilot	Done: July 11, 2026, Section 210 of Public Law 119-101 (42 U.S.C. 12757)	Public Law 119-101
Congress appropriates money for it	Not yet. No public law since enactment appropriates money for it	GovInfo public laws list
HUD sets up the program and publishes a notice of funding opportunity	Not yet. Nothing in the Federal Register or on Grants.gov	Federal Register, Grants.gov
States and cities apply	Not open	Follows the notice
HUD awards grants	None	Follows applications

The statute says HUD “is authorized to establish” the pilot, not that it must. Once money is appropriated, federal grant rules require an agency to announce an openly competed program in a notice of funding opportunity (2 CFR 200.204), which HUD posts on Grants.gov. That notice would set the application deadline, the scoring and how HUD applies the law’s priorities.

Where fiscal year 2027 funding stands

Fiscal year 2027 began October 1, 2026 without a full-year HUD appropriation.

The continuing resolution. Public Law 119-103, signed September 2, 2026, keeps HUD running at fiscal year 2026 rates through December 11, 2026. It has no line for RESIDE, and its Section 104 bars using its money to “initiate or resume any project or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not available during fiscal year 2026.” RESIDE became law in fiscal year 2026 but had no money then, so a stopgap that only extends 2026 funding cannot start it.

The House bill. The House Appropriations Committee approved its fiscal year 2027 Transportation-HUD bill, H.R. 9170, on June 3, 2026, and reported it on June 5, before the ROAD to Housing Act became law. The reported text has no provision for RESIDE or for Section 227 of the Cranston-Gonzalez Act, where RESIDE was codified. The pilot runs only on “funds appropriated for this subsection,” and the bill’s HOME account designates none for it. Its HOME account is $500 million, against $1.25 billion in fiscal year 2026 according to the Congressional Research Service. The full House has not passed it.

The Senate. As of September 3, 2026, the Congressional Research Service reported that the Senate Appropriations Committee had not proposed a fiscal year 2027 Transportation-HUD bill.

For RESIDE to run in fiscal year 2027, the full-year bill that replaces the continuing resolution, or a later law, would have to provide money for it. Each fiscal year that passes without an appropriation uses up one of the pilot’s five authorized years, 2027 through 2031.

How much RESIDE could get

The law names no amount. Congress picks one in appropriations, and the amount decides the grant size.

Section 210 authorizes the pilot only “subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this subsection,” and Section 1202 of the Act states that “no additional funds are authorized to be appropriated” to carry out the Act. The Congressional Research Service reads the Act the same way: it “does not appropriate funding to implement any section.”

In a fiscal year with at least $100 million for the pilot, each grant must be between $1 million and $10 million.
In a fiscal year with less than $100 million, HUD must “seek to maximize the number of covered grants awarded,” and the $1 million floor and $10 million ceiling do not apply.
RESIDE grants come on top of a jurisdiction’s HOME formula allocation and “shall not affect” it.

How those dollars would size against real buildings is on how RESIDE grants should be sized.

The $100 million from HOME is not in the law

Many summaries describe the bill as introduced, which had its own funding source. The enacted text dropped it.

As introduced, H.R. 5591 would have let HUD use up to $100 million a year of HOME funding above $1.35 billion for a “Blighted Building to Housing Conversion Program.” The enacted Section 210 drops both that funding source and that name: the pilot runs only on money appropriated for it.

Even the earlier mechanism would pay nothing at current levels. HOME received $1.25 billion in fiscal year 2026, and the House committee bill proposes $500 million for fiscal year 2027. Both are below the $1.35 billion the introduced bill required before any money could go to the pilot.

What a city can know before a notice

The notice will set deadlines and scoring. Who is eligible, what qualifies, whom the housing must serve and what gets priority are already in the statute.

Eligible applicants are HOME participating jurisdictions. Eligible buildings are vacant and abandoned buildings built for commercial or industrial use that meet the law’s test: found unsafe by code enforcement with no corrective action 90 days after notice, or in court-ordered receivership or nuisance abatement related to abandonment, or abandoned under state law. An office building that is simply empty does not meet it.

The housing it creates must be attainable housing: serving households earning no more than 120% of area median income, with a majority of units affordable to households earning no more than 60%.

HUD must give priority to a jurisdiction that:

will use the grant in a community experiencing economic distress;
will use the grant in a qualified Opportunity Zone;
will use the grant to build housing that meets a need in its consolidated plan; or
has enacted ordinances reducing regulatory barriers to converting vacant and abandoned buildings, not counting changes to safety and habitability rules.

This site screens office buildings in San Jose, San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia and Boston to show which would pencil with a RESIDE grant if they met the law’s vacant-and-abandoned test. Other federal money that can reach conversions now, including CDBG new construction under Section 204, is on the CDBG and HOME page.

What to watch

December 11, 2026: the continuing resolution expires. Congress will pass another stopgap, a full-year bill or neither.
A Senate Transportation-HUD bill, and any line in either chamber’s bill for Section 227 of the Cranston-Gonzalez Act (42 U.S.C. 12757).
A HUD notice in the Federal Register or on Grants.gov.

We re-check each of these and update the date at the top of this page when we do.

Questions

Is the RESIDE Act funded?

No. As of October 28, 2026, Congress had appropriated nothing for the RESIDE pilot. Section 210 of the ROAD to Housing Act authorizes HUD to run it in fiscal years 2027 through 2031 only “subject to the availability of funds appropriated,” and the Act itself appropriates no money for any section.

When can cities apply for RESIDE Act grants?

Only after Congress appropriates money for the pilot and HUD publishes a notice of funding opportunity. As of October 28, 2026, neither had happened. Fiscal year 2027 is running on a continuing resolution through December 11, 2026 that carries nothing for RESIDE.

Does the continuing resolution fund the RESIDE pilot?

No. Public Law 119-103 continues fiscal year 2026 funding through December 11, 2026, and Section 104 bars using it to start any project or activity that had no appropriation in fiscal year 2026. RESIDE became law during fiscal year 2026 but received no appropriation that year, so it needs a full-year appropriations act, or another law, that provides money for it.

How much money will the RESIDE Act get?

The law sets no amount; Congress decides each year in appropriations. The amount sets the grant size: in a year with at least $100 million, each grant is $1 million to $10 million, and with less, HUD must seek to maximize the number of grants awarded.

Where does the $100 million a year from HOME come from?

From the RESIDE Act as introduced (H.R. 5591), which would have let HUD use up to $100 million of HOME funding above $1.35 billion a year. The enacted Section 210 dropped that funding source. The $100 million that remains in the law is only the threshold for the $1 million to $10 million grant size.

Who can apply for RESIDE Act grants?

HOME participating jurisdictions: the states and local governments that receive HOME formula funds. Developers and building owners cannot apply directly; a project would be funded through its city or state.

Sources

More on the law: The ROAD to Housing Act explained · Environmental review changes · CDBG and HOME changes · Opportunity Zones · The Innovation Fund · Innovation Fund reforms, city by city · The Build Now Act · Manufactured housing and the chassis rule · Chassis-free manufactured homes by state · How RESIDE grants should be sized · The ban on large investors buying homes