Livable Communities Act of 2024

The Livable Communities Act of 2024 establishes a new Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities within the Department of Housing and Urban Development to coordinate federal housing, transportation, and environmental infrastructure investments across agencies. It creates two main grant programs: a Comprehensive Planning Grant Program to help communities develop integrated regional plans (with 25% of funds reserved for high-poverty communities), and a Community Challenge Grant Program to implement projects identified in those plans. The bill also establishes a credit facility to support transit-oriented development with requirements for affordable housing units, including 20% of housing units in such developments to be affordable to low- and very low-income households. The legislation directly affects communities, particularly those with high poverty rates, by providing funding to coordinate housing, transportation, and environmental planning to create more sustainable, healthy, and affordable communities.