# Employee Housing Repair

**Agency:** Interior  
**Account:** Education Construction  
**Source document:** Bureau of Indian Education · p. 45  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/interior/employee-housing-repair  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2026 | enacted | 3.9 |

## Interior discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $18.80B, FY2026 $17.30B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

address efforts to further assess and address deferred maintenance across BIE schools, with a targeted focus on improving building safety, and structural integrity. These investments are critical to providing safe, sustainable learning environments for students and staff, reducing long- term maintenance liabilities, and enabling schools to remain fully operational. Prioritizing life- safety deficiencies and high-risk systems ensures that limited resources are deployed effectively to mitigate hazards and support uninterrupted educational services. Tribal Colleges Facilities Improvement and Repair (-$16,000,000/ 0 FTE) - The budget does not request funding for Replacement School Construction. The FY 2025 Deferred Maintenance and Repair (DM&R) for Education Construction was estimated at approximately $1 billion. This estimate includes schools, housing, operational buildings, recreation, utility assets and DM&R associated with grounds which started being reported in the Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) in FY 2024. BIE is prioritizing school projects to ensure that students are able to attend safe, healthy, and culturally relevant schools, but deferred maintenance and repairs continue to accrue. A Lifecyle Pilot Program is being initiated for BIE schools to replace roofs, boilers, and HVAC systems before they fail and have reached the end of their useful life. Year Within Name District Project to Request to be Years of Category/ Improvement and Repair million at various locations 3,000


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Interior › Bureau of Indian Education › Education Construction › Employee Housing Repair


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*