{"id":8728,"date":"2026-02-17T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/high-housing-costs-shortages-propel-movement-on-reform-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:00:08","slug":"high-housing-costs-shortages-propel-movement-on-reform-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/high-housing-costs-shortages-propel-movement-on-reform-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"High housing costs, shortages propel movement on reform in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON \u2014 Republicans, Democrats and the White House are methodically, calmly inching toward a common goal: agreeing on a thick package of laws that would do something quickly about slowing housing costs and boosting supply.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no talk of gridlock here. No partisan sniping. Just an under the radar effort to show constituents in an election year that their lawmakers realize there\u2019s a big problem when it comes to buying homes.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why\u00a0the House<\/a> earlier this month passed its version of housing reform with only nine dissenting votes. The Senate committee writing similar legislation approved it unanimously last year.<\/p>\n

While there are still some obstacles ahead before anything reaches President Donald Trump\u2019s desk, what\u2019s happening is almost a throwback to the days when getting 80% of one\u2019s plan was a big victory, a policy prize to tout back home as midterm elections near.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no silver bullet for fixing this problem,\u201d said\u00a0Rep. Mike Flood<\/a>, R-Neb., chairman of the Housing and Insurance Subcommittee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, he added, \u201cI think that this bill, this legislation, includes a range of meaningful housing reforms that will add to housing supply and ultimately decrease housing costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Housing shortage\u00a0<\/h4>\n

The House and Senate bills have a common purpose, said Emma Waters, senior policy analyst at Washington\u2019s Bipartisan Policy Center. \u201cBoth bills really are pushing to make it easier to build more affordable homes,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., a member of the House Financial Services Committee, explained the House bill this way: \u201cIt ensures that every dollar we do spend goes further.\u201d<\/p>\n

An analysis by the Zillow Group,\u00a0<\/a>a real estate company that researches home prices and trends, last summer found that in 2023, about 1.4 million new homes were added to the housing stock, but there were 1.8 million newly formed families.<\/p>\n

As a result, the housing shortage was up to 4.7 million units. Other estimates put it as high as 7 million.<\/p>\n

The typical home price\u00a0<\/a>in January in the United States was $359,078, up 0.2% from a year earlier, Zillow found. Prices depend on a wide variety of factors, including labor costs, cost of materials, interest rates, supply and demand and more.<\/p>\n

What government can do<\/h4>\n

The\u00a0congressional legislation<\/a> tries to help ease supply and stabilize prices as much as the government can at this point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House and Senate bills share several similar provisions. The\u00a0 Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington-based research organization, estimated that the House bill\u00a0includes pieces of at least 43 different House or Senate bills<\/a>, 27 of which have had bipartisan support.<\/p>\n

Under the House plan, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development would update the department\u2019s construction standards for manufactured housing. The Senate bill has similar provisions.<\/p>\n

Rep. John Rose, R-Tenn., a housing subcommittee member, explained the problem: \u201cMunicipalities across the country have restricted or outright banned homes built on permanent steel chassis. The result has been less construction, higher costs, and fewer opportunities for working families to own where they live.\u201d<\/p>\n

The House bill would provide money for \u201cpattern books\u201d for such housing that would feature pre-approved plans that could speed up the approval process.<\/p>\n

The legislation would also provide \u201ca lot of provisions to make it easier for state and local governments to reduce regulatory barriers,\u201d said Waters.<\/p>\n

The bills would allow money from\u00a0Community Development Block Grants,<\/a> which help fund neighborhood projects, to better support housing production.<\/p>\n

The Senate bill would reward CDBG recipients that have, unrelated to their other CDBG projects, increased their housing production in the previous year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a reward for building more housing in the previous year, those jurisdictions would receive additional CDBG funding, but there are still restrictions on how those funds can be used.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The House bill, though, would change the restriction so that CDBG money could be used for housing construction.<\/p>\n

Help for consumers<\/h4>\n

Housing experts believe a reason landlords balk is they\u2019re reluctant to endure the government\u2019s inspection process; the bills would streamline that process. Landlords would get incentives to accept tenants with rent vouchers.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0HOME Investment Partnerships Program<\/a>, which aids state and local efforts to provide housing for lower income families, would also get a makeover of sorts in the bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For instance, the House bill says environmental impact statements would no longer be needed for many projects, and it would be easier to tap money from the HOME budget.<\/p>\n

Also likely to help consumers: making it easier for banks, usually community institutions that focus on local needs, to invest in more affordable housing. The House bill would raise the public investment welfare cap, allowing more such investments.<\/p>\n

Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., was enthusiastic about this provision.<\/a> \u201cOur bill helps banks access stable deposit funding, streamlines the exam process that\u2019s tailored particularly for our vital community banks, and helps promote more community banks to do what they do best, lend locally and support their communities,\u201d said Hill, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, in a statement.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s ahead\u00a0<\/h4>\n

The banking provision is one of the few major areas where the Senate and House disagree. There\u2019s concern among some Democrats that the House bill lifts too many bank regulatory barriers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a bipartisan bill with unanimous support in the Senate that will help build more housing and lower costs for the American people. I\u2019m glad to see the House move forward on housing proposals,\u201d said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee.<\/p>\n

But, she said, \u201cHouse Republicans should not hold housing relief hostage to push forward several bank deregulatory bills that will make our community banks more fragile while harming consumers, small businesses, and economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also having potential to stymie negotiations is the White House\u2019s eagerness to ban institutional investors from buying single family homes. There\u2019s not much congressional support for that idea.<\/p>\n

Trump last month\u00a0issued an executive order<\/a> telling \u201ckey agencies to issue guidance preventing relevant Federal programs from approving, insuring, guaranteeing, securitizing, or facilitating sales of single-family homes to institutional investors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staying upbeat<\/h4>\n

There\u2019s still a sense in the Capitol that Republicans and Democrats will come together on a major housing bill, particularly since Congress and the White House agree on most key provisions and leading interest groups are helping push legislation forward.<\/p>\n

The National Association of Realtors has been enthusiastic about the House and Senate bills.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cBy addressing barriers at every level of government, the legislation will make it faster and cheaper to build new homes,\u201d the organization said after the House passed the housing reform\u00a0 bill. The Realtors had similar praise for the Senate version.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition<\/a> also liked the House bill, as CEO Emily Cadik called it \u201ca set of common sense, bipartisan housing proposals that would increase the supply of affordable housing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most in Washington who follow housing policy closely are upbeat about the legislation\u2019s prospects.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all pretty positive stuff,\u201d said Waters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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