Francis Torres

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The Excerpt · On housing, America agrees. Trump stands alone · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

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And even though they have become very common to build, there were limited options for financing the purchase or development of these ADUs.

So this bill would just provide greater options for households interested in doing so.

And just one of a suite of provisions that focus on this financing aspect of the housing crisis and incentivize both households and developers to spend more of their capital in housing.

I would also note that one of the main bottlenecks in housing development

has been around zoning and land use and restrictions that exist at the local level for development of a diverse array of homes, multifamily housing and other types of homes.

This bill provides guidance and best practices on what are some of the key measures that can help address this problem.

It also creates further leverage for federal government using federal funding to incentivize cities, municipalities, local governments to take up regulatory

reforms that would facilitate development in their communities.

And so there is this aspect of financing and then making it easier for investors with capital to move into housing.

But there's also a significant set of ideas in here around making it easier to build different kinds of homes as well.

There's a provision that's really been talked about that would fix what's called the chassis requirement.

And without getting too wonky about it, essentially it would facilitate the development of manufactured housing, just broaden what can be done in that space.

And we know that manufactured housing is growing in America.

There's perhaps outdated ideas of what manufactured housing looks like, but really it's a very vibrant, innovative sector within the housing development world.

that has been hamstrung to a great extent by some regulatory restrictions on the delivery of these homes that are factory made.

And so the bill would really just facilitate that delivery of these homes and make it a lot easier for households to invest in manufactured housing and for manufactured housing developers to scale up their businesses to meet the needs, the housing supply needs of this country.

I think a really significant issue, and this is not just me saying it, we've done some polling on this here at BPC, and we've seen that in a survey of a nationally representative sample of voters,

around 89% of voters, regardless of party ID, identify this as an issue that they want to see Congress take action on.

So it's great to see Congress taking bipartisan and bicameral action through this bill we're discussing.

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