{"id":708425,"date":"2026-07-28T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=708425"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T16:57:49","slug":"indian-country-housing-bill-in-limbo-as-self-determination-law-marks-major-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/07\/28\/indian-country-housing-bill-in-limbo-as-self-determination-law-marks-major-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Country housing bill in limbo as self-determination law marks major anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Senate<\/a>\r\n\r\n
A sign announcing the postponement of a hearing on an Indian housing bill is taped to the door of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in Room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2026. Photo by Indianz.Com (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
Indian Country housing bill in limbo as self-determination law marks major anniversary<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, July 28, 2026<\/div>\r\n
By Acee Agoyo<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/P>\r\nEfforts to update an Indian housing law that expired more than a decade ago continue to face setbacks on Capitol Hill.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe Senate Committee on Indian Affairs<\/a> was set to take testimony on a bill to reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act<\/a> (NAHASDA) last Wednesday. But the legislative hearing was abruptly postponed<\/a> not long before it was scheduled to start on July 22.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe postponement had nothing do with the substance of S.4276<\/a>, the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Modernization Act of 2026. Tribal advocates — some of whom still showed up to the committee room in the nation’s capital, not knowing about the last-minute change in schedule — nonetheless expressed disappointment with the latest delay in the long-running saga to update and improve NAHASDA, which expired in September 2013.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“While today’s hearing has been postponed, this does not diminish the meaningful momentum that has been built around NAHASDA reauthorization,” the National American Indian Housing Council<\/a> (NAIHC) said in a statement last Wednesday after the development.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n“As we commemorate the 30th anniversary of NAHASDA, the scheduling of this hearing represented the first hearing on NAHASDA reauthorization in the 119th Congress and an important milestone toward advancing long-overdue modernization of this foundational Tribal housing law,” NAIHC said<\/a> in reference to the law’s origin in 1996.\r\n

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