Congress passes the largest housing affordability bill in decades — and Trump cancels the signing

If there's room for agreement on anything in Washington, it's that lawmakers need to do something to make homeownership more affordable. On Tuesday, legislators on both sides of the aisle clinched the final vote in the House to pass the largest piece of housing legislation in decades.

The bill, called the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, passed 358-32 in the House. The Senate approved it Monday with similarly overwhelming bipartisan support...

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Leo's notes: This bipartisan legislation recognizes that the country's housing crisis is fundamentally a supply challenge requiring reforms across financing, regulation, permitting, and construction. Communities that already have development-ready sites, supportive zoning, strong public-private partnerships, and a pipeline of workforce housing projects will be best positioned to leverage the new federal tools. The legislation reinforces that federal policy can create opportunities, but homes are ultimately built by communities that are prepared to say "yes" to housing...

Ken Notes: WWHNews is a nonpartisan publication, in fact we see workforce housing as one of the few bipartisan issues in the legislature now. to play politics with this is not in the best interest of the American people.