Bipartisan legislation announced Friday by key senators would change the federal government’s role in housing in an effort to limit the barriers to construction imposed by localities and environmental rules.
The bill, the ROAD to Housing Act of 2025, is authored by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) and the top Democrat on the panel, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and is set for consideration in the committee on Tuesday.
It’s notable that the bill has the support of both a conservative Republican in Scott and one of the most liberal members of the upper chamber in Warren. In past years, Democrats in particular have favored greater government subsidies for housing and “affordable housing” to address the growing affordability problem. The Scott-Warren bill, though, is focused
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