Congress finally does housing right. Sort of.
358-32 House, 85-5 Senate. Bipartisan housing reform actually happened and it's not completely insane.
Strips out the NIMBY garbage: streamlines zoning, cuts permitting red tape, unfucks NEPA reviews. Throws $200M+ at innovation funds and local grants. Lets affordable housing get built with CDBG funds instead of rotting in bureaucracy.
The real move: caps large investors from hoarding single-family homes (350+ threshold). Boosts manufactured homes with higher FHA limits. Expands rural housing and veteran programs.
This is YIMBY actually winning in Congress. It's not perfect and it probably won't solve the crisis alone, but it's the first time in decades the actual problem (we can't build anything) got treated like an actual problem instead of a zoning committee talking point.
Don't expect this to magically fix prices overnight. But removing the legal stranglehold on housing construction is the only thing that matters.
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