District of Columbia legislation · 26th Council
District of Columbia B556: Fair Share Housing Targets Act of 2025
Status: In committee, October 15, 2026
FISCAL NOTE - This bill is passed Subject to Appropriations. Please see the Fiscal Impact Statement for more information.
What the bill says
From the introduced text, December 22, 2025:
Statement of Introduction Fair Share Housing Targets Act of 2025 December 19, 2025 Today, along with Councilmembers Christina Henderson, Janeese Lewis George, Robert C. White, Jr., and Zachary Parker, I am introducing the Fair Share Housing Targets Act of 2025. This legislation would ensure that the District of Columbia maintains ambitious goals for the production of new housing and affordable housing by requiring the Mayor to set new housing targets every 5 years. To maintain a principle that all areas of D.C. contribute a fair share of housing, specific targets would be established for each of the District's 10 Planning Areas, groups of neighborhoods used for planning that do not change with ward boundaries. In May 2019, Mayor Bowser released the District's first-ever Mayor's Order on Housing, which set a goal of producing 36,000 new homes by the year 2025. This goal was followed up in October 2019 by the publication of the Mayor's Housing Framework: Creating Goals for Areas of Our City, an analysis of existing affordable housing distribution and specific housing production goals by planning area. These goals made D.C. a leader as the first major U.S. city to establish housing production and affordable housing targets on a hyper-local level. 2025 is now coming to a close with D.C. having met its 36,000 unit target ahead of schedule. …
Sponsors
- Nadeau, Brianne (D) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Committee Markup
- : Public Hearing
- : Referred to Committee on Housing
- : Notice of Intent to Act on B26-0556 Published in the DC Register
- : Introduced in Office of the Secretary
Subjects: Housing, Permanent Bill
Common questions
- What is B556?
- B556 is a bill in the District of Columbia Legislature (26th Council): Fair Share Housing Targets Act of 2025.
- What does B556 do?
- FISCAL NOTE - This bill is passed Subject to Appropriations. Please see the Fiscal Impact Statement for more information.
- What is the status of B556?
- In committee as of October 15, 2026. Latest action: Committee Markup (October 15, 2026).
- Who sponsored B556?
- Nadeau, Brianne (D).
- Where is the official record for B556?
- On the District of Columbia Legislature website: https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B26-0556
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