PaidForPolitics

Affordability: Housing

Housing costs are shaped by zoning, lending, tax and rental policy. These groups give to federal candidates and spend on races where those policies are debated.

  • Given: the group’s own contributions to the campaign
  • Bundled: donors’ contributions the group collected and forwarded
  • For: outside spending supporting
  • Against: outside spending opposing

Groups tracked · raised $21.6M this cycle

Real estate and home building

Totals

  • Given to campaigns
    $7.1M
  • Bundled to campaigns
    $10K
  • Spent for
    $1.2M
  • Spent against
    $0

Groups

  • Realtors PAC (RPAC)Realtors Political Action Committee (RPAC), the PAC of the National Association of Realtors, the real estate agents’ trade group. FEC type: PAC.$4.8M
  • NAHB BUILD-PACPAC of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the home building industry’s trade group. FEC type: PAC.$1.9M
  • NMHC PACPAC of the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC), the trade group for apartment owners, managers and developers. FEC type: PAC.$1.6M

Where the money went

  1. John Cornyn (R)Senate · TX
    • Given$40K
    • For$506K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NAHB BUILD-PAC, NMHC PAC
  2. Young Kim (R)House · CA-40
    • Given$25K
    • For$57K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NAHB BUILD-PAC, NMHC PAC
  3. Andy Barr (R)House · KY-06
    • For$82K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC)
  4. Mike Thompson (D)House · CA-04
    • Given$28K
    • For$51K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NAHB BUILD-PAC, NMHC PAC
  5. Linda Sánchez (D)House · CA-41
    • Given$15K
    • For$51K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NAHB BUILD-PAC, NMHC PAC
  6. Julie Johnson (D)House · TX-33
    • For$66K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC)
  7. Brad Sherman (D)House · CA-32
    • Given$25K
    • For$34K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NAHB BUILD-PAC, NMHC PAC
  8. Ernest Anthony Tony Gonzales II (R)House · TX-23
    • Given$17K
    • For$40K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NAHB BUILD-PAC, NMHC PAC
  9. Wesley Bell (D)House · MO-01
    • Given$5K
    • For$51K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC)
  10. Jimmy Patronis (R)House · FL-01
    • Given$15K
    • For$41K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NAHB BUILD-PAC
  11. Brad Schneider (D)House · IL-10
    • Given$40K
    • For$11K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NMHC PAC
  12. Vicente Gonzalez (D)House · TX-34
    • Given$50K
    via Realtors PAC (RPAC), NAHB BUILD-PAC, NMHC PAC

Showing the top 12 of 531 candidates.

Groups tracked · raised $81.0M this cycle

Labor and tenant-side

Totals

  • Given to campaigns
    $1.2M
  • Bundled to campaigns
    $0
  • Spent for
    $656K
  • Spent against
    $285K

Groups

  • SEIU COPECommittee on Political Education (COPE) of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents health care, public sector and building service workers. FEC type: PAC.$2.1M
  • AFL-CIO COPECommittee on Political Education (COPE) of the AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations), the largest federation of U.S. labor unions. FEC type: PAC.$4K

Where the money went

  1. Nick Begich III (R)House · AK
    • Against$190K
    via SEIU COPE
  2. Bob Brooks (D)House · PA-07
    • Given$10K
    • For$165K
    via SEIU COPE
  3. JoAnna Mendoza (D)House · AZ-06
    • For$160K
    via SEIU COPE
  4. Rob Bresnahan (R)House · PA-08
    • Against$76K
    via SEIU COPE
  5. Richard Pan (D)House · CA-06
    • Given$10K
    • For$49K
    via SEIU COPE
  6. Marni von Wilpert (D)House · CA-48
    • Given$10K
    • For$49K
    via SEIU COPE
  7. Jasmeet Bains (D)House · CA-22
    • Given$5K
    • For$49K
    via SEIU COPE
  8. Roy Cooper (D)Senate · NC
    • Given$10K
    • For$22K
    via SEIU COPE
  9. James Talarico (D)Senate · TX
    • For$31K
    via SEIU COPE
  10. Aftyn Behn (D)House · TN-07
    • For$25K
    via SEIU COPE
  11. Donavan McKinney (D)House · MI-13
    • Given$5K
    • For$17K
    via SEIU COPE
  12. Kamala Harris (D)President
    • For$22K
    via SEIU COPE

Showing the top 12 of 221 candidates.

What this page doesn’t show

  • Lobbying spending, which is reported to Congress, not the FEC
  • State and local races, where most zoning decisions are made
  • Donors to nonprofits that don’t disclose them
  • Money given to party committees and other PACs, which is listed on each group’s own page

Totals cover the 2025-26 cycle, from FEC data as of Oct. 6, 2026. Each group’s total counts its contributions to candidates’ campaigns, the bundled contributions it forwarded for its donors, and its outside spending for and against candidates. Bundled money belongs to the individual donors, so it’s shown separately from the group’s own giving and never counted twice. Outside spending includes $677K from 24- and 48-hour reports filed since the groups’ last regular reports. How this works.