Major housing bill clears House as Senate and Trump grapple with affordability woes
This is performative politics again.
The House passed a bipartisan housing bill that would enact new policies to boost housing supply and ease the affordability crisis plaguing the nation.
The highly anticipated housing legislation, the Housing for the 21st Century Act, passed the House in an overwhelming 390-9 vote on Monday. The bill would ease some federal housing regulations to boost supply and would also nudge state and local governments to loosen land-use rules that make it difficult to build housing.
The legislative package could prove to be one of the most significant economic measures passed this Congress. However, it faces a complicated path in the Senate. Furthermore, President Donald Trump has recently appeared skeptical of efforts to lower housing prices.
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“This bill represents that consensus of both Democrat and Republican members in the House who want at the federal level to take some steps that we believe will lower the marginal cost of constructing housing, making [Department of Housing and Urban Development] programs more efficient, more effective, more accountable to taxpayers,” House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. French Hill (R-AR) told a group of reporters on Monday ahead of the vote.
Housing costs have been a major component of the affordability problems facing consumers. Home prices and mortgage rates have soared over the past several years, pushing home ownership out of reach for many Americans. The median age of a first-time homebuyer has risen to 40, according to one account.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), another member of the committee, told the Washington Examiner that the bill is “our best hope of getting housing legislation passed this Congress for Americans in need of a home” and called on the Senate to take up the legislation.
But the Monday passage tees up questions about next steps and whether the Senate will take up the House legislation after previously passing its version, the Road to Housing Act. Or perhaps whether there will be a conference about the various provisions that differ in the two pieces of legislation, and a final bill crafted between the two chambers.
The Housing for the 21st Century Act is designed to modernize local development and rural housing programs, further expand financing opportunities for manufactured and affordable housing, and protect borrowers and assisted families. It also enhances oversight of housing providers.
One significant …
This is performative politics again.
The House passed a bipartisan housing bill that would enact new policies to boost housing supply and ease the affordability crisis plaguing the nation.
The highly anticipated housing legislation, the Housing for the 21st Century Act, passed the House in an overwhelming 390-9 vote on Monday. The bill would ease some federal housing regulations to boost supply and would also nudge state and local governments to loosen land-use rules that make it difficult to build housing.
The legislative package could prove to be one of the most significant economic measures passed this Congress. However, it faces a complicated path in the Senate. Furthermore, President Donald Trump has recently appeared skeptical of efforts to lower housing prices.
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“This bill represents that consensus of both Democrat and Republican members in the House who want at the federal level to take some steps that we believe will lower the marginal cost of constructing housing, making [Department of Housing and Urban Development] programs more efficient, more effective, more accountable to taxpayers,” House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. French Hill (R-AR) told a group of reporters on Monday ahead of the vote.
Housing costs have been a major component of the affordability problems facing consumers. Home prices and mortgage rates have soared over the past several years, pushing home ownership out of reach for many Americans. The median age of a first-time homebuyer has risen to 40, according to one account.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), another member of the committee, told the Washington Examiner that the bill is “our best hope of getting housing legislation passed this Congress for Americans in need of a home” and called on the Senate to take up the legislation.
But the Monday passage tees up questions about next steps and whether the Senate will take up the House legislation after previously passing its version, the Road to Housing Act. Or perhaps whether there will be a conference about the various provisions that differ in the two pieces of legislation, and a final bill crafted between the two chambers.
The Housing for the 21st Century Act is designed to modernize local development and rural housing programs, further expand financing opportunities for manufactured and affordable housing, and protect borrowers and assisted families. It also enhances oversight of housing providers.
One significant …
Major housing bill clears House as Senate and Trump grapple with affordability woes
This is performative politics again.
The House passed a bipartisan housing bill that would enact new policies to boost housing supply and ease the affordability crisis plaguing the nation.
The highly anticipated housing legislation, the Housing for the 21st Century Act, passed the House in an overwhelming 390-9 vote on Monday. The bill would ease some federal housing regulations to boost supply and would also nudge state and local governments to loosen land-use rules that make it difficult to build housing.
The legislative package could prove to be one of the most significant economic measures passed this Congress. However, it faces a complicated path in the Senate. Furthermore, President Donald Trump has recently appeared skeptical of efforts to lower housing prices.
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“This bill represents that consensus of both Democrat and Republican members in the House who want at the federal level to take some steps that we believe will lower the marginal cost of constructing housing, making [Department of Housing and Urban Development] programs more efficient, more effective, more accountable to taxpayers,” House Financial Services Committee chairman Rep. French Hill (R-AR) told a group of reporters on Monday ahead of the vote.
Housing costs have been a major component of the affordability problems facing consumers. Home prices and mortgage rates have soared over the past several years, pushing home ownership out of reach for many Americans. The median age of a first-time homebuyer has risen to 40, according to one account.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), another member of the committee, told the Washington Examiner that the bill is “our best hope of getting housing legislation passed this Congress for Americans in need of a home” and called on the Senate to take up the legislation.
But the Monday passage tees up questions about next steps and whether the Senate will take up the House legislation after previously passing its version, the Road to Housing Act. Or perhaps whether there will be a conference about the various provisions that differ in the two pieces of legislation, and a final bill crafted between the two chambers.
The Housing for the 21st Century Act is designed to modernize local development and rural housing programs, further expand financing opportunities for manufactured and affordable housing, and protect borrowers and assisted families. It also enhances oversight of housing providers.
One significant …
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