Rebecca Picciotto
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WSJ What’s News · What’s in the New Bipartisan Housing Bill That Congress Just Passed · 24 Jun 2026
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The more housing a city produces, the more grant funding they could be eligible for.
This is one of the kind of carrot and stick approaches that the two chambers settled on to try to incentivize local governments to build more.
The first version of this bill came out in August 2025.
It was introduced by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott.
Democrat and a Republican.
At that time, it really was just a pretty uncontroversial package of a bunch of small housing bills that everyone largely agreed was a step in the right direction.
You know, no one bill in the package was going to do enough to move the needle.
But together, it was seen as Congress's largest move on housing in decades.
And it had this massive bipartisan support.
It included everything from, you know,
speeding up permitting processes, cutting red tape around environmental reviews, making it easier to build manufactured housing, encouraging local municipalities to ease their zoning laws, a bunch of small tweaks that in tandem are seen as crucial to increase housing supply.
If you ask real estate leaders, the federal government has a very limited ability to actually enact real change.
What housing gets built where is often determined on the local level.
But the sort of symbol that the federal government was moving towards encouraging more housing supply, that was seen as enough to have the momentum and support to pass it.
Then what happens?
When Trump, at the beginning of this year, announced his executive order to ban Wall Street housing investors, he demanded that Congress codify that ban into law.
And the White House saw the Senate's road to housing bill as a very convenient vehicle to get that done.
And now this ban has created this back and forth that I don't think lawmakers had initially intended when they first introduced the bill.
Basically, Trump wants to forbid large institutional investors from buying up single-family homes and essentially turning them into investments, renting them out, etc.
His theory is that there are these large Wall Street companies that are basically stealing the housing supply from investors.
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