Read theMandate

Increase the supply of housing in AmericaSection 504 › Proposal

The Department is given standing disaster relief and recovery duties

To increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes, section 504, Sec. 504. Written by .

The Department is given standing disaster relief and recovery duties

The document says “shallWho acts: Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentHow: statuteSec. 504 in the PDF
What the document says

“(A) leading and coordinating the disaster-related responsibilities of the Department under the National Response Framework, the National Disaster Recovery Framework, and the National Mitigation Framework;”

To increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes, Sec. 504

The section makes the offices and officers of the Department of Housing and Urban Development responsible for leading its disaster duties under the three national frameworks, coordinating its disaster relief, recovery, resiliency and mitigation programs, supporting communities moving displaced people from shelters to permanent housing, working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration to align rules and cut duplication, promoting best practices in mitigation and land use planning, coordinating technical assistance for grantees with limited capacity, and helping State, Tribal, and local governments build recovery capacity and pre-disaster plans.

What the document actually says

“(A) leading and coordinating the disaster-related responsibilities of the Department under the National Response Framework, the National Disaster Recovery Framework, and the National Mitigation Framework;”

To increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes, Sec. 504
That sentence, in plain words

The housing agency must lead its own disaster work. Three national plans say what the government does after a storm. The agency must pull its part of each one together.

What this is about

A framework is a plan for how agencies work together. Before this the housing agency's role was spread out. This puts the duty in one place.

No action is recorded against this proposal. That is not evidence that none has been taken, and nobody has yet read it against the record. See what the tracker does not yet cover.

Share this page
How to cite this
  1. The document itself

    Increase the supply of housing in America, Public Law 119-101, sec. 504, 140 Stat. 929 (2026).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ101/html/PLAW-119publ101.htm

  2. This page

    “The Department is given standing disaster relief and recovery duties,” Increase the supply of housing in America, section 504, Sec. 504. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/pl-119-101/proposal/sec504-department-duties/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

Cite the document when the claim is about what the document says. Cite this page when the indexing, the wording or the record of what has happened is what is being relied on.

How to Read This Page

The quotation is the document's own words, exactly as printed, and we check the page number against the Act itself before publishing. The paragraph underneath is our summary, not the document's words. So is the plain English version, which is why it sits beside the quotation rather than replacing it.

All proposals in this section →