1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Build Housing with Care Act of 2023 . 2. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to expand access to affordable housing and child care through the establishment of a grant program to promote the co-location of housing and child care providers. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Appropriate congressional committees The term appropriate congressional committees means— (A) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; (B) the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate; (C) the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; and (D) the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of Representatives. (2) Caregiver; eligible child care provider The terms caregiver and eligible child care provider have the meanings given those terms in section 658P of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 9858n ). (3) Child care desert The term child care desert means— (A) a census tract that contains not less than 3 times more children than the licensed child care providers in the census tract have the capacity to care for