ICYMI: Build America Caucus Leads 30 Bipartisan Members to Demand Movement on Housing Reform

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, Punchbowl News’ Brendan Pedersen and Samantha Handler highlighted how the Build America Caucus is ramping up pressure on Washington to pass the most significant housing reform in decades. The bipartisan coalition is demanding that congressional leaders advance the ROAD to Housing Act to update outdated housing rules, limit unnecessary environmental review, incentivize local land-use reform, and modernize federal financing rules.

KEY POINTS:

• In the House, a bipartisan group of members, led by Rep. Josh Harder (D-Calif.), urged congressional leadership to include the Senate’s ROAD to Housing Act in the final version of the annual defense authorization this year.
• Members want the ROAD to Housing Act to hitch a ride on the NDAA. That bill came out of a unanimous vote on the Senate Banking Committee, led by Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and would make a broad raft of changes to housing construction policy.
• Harder and nearly 30 other House members asked congressional leaders, like House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill (R-Ark.), Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) and their Democratic counterparts, to include the 300-page housing bill in the conference version of the NDAA.
• “The Senate’s bipartisan adoption of this measure in the NDAA marks a major step forward in addressing one of the core challenges facing our country: the cost of living and the shortage of attainable housing for Americans at all incomes,” the letter says.

Read the full article here.

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