06/23/2026
🚨 We’ve just witnessed the biggest supply-side housing victory in 30 years.🚨
The bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act has officially passed, marking a massive win for pro-supply, common-sense housing policy.
We're thrilled to see several critical provisions make it into the final package:
🏡 The Build Now Act will financially reward local governments that allow more housing units to be built, incentivizing new supply in high-cost markets. We congratulate Sens. John Kennedy and Elizabeth Warren on securing this pro-supply language in the final bill.
🏡 The Housing Supply Frameworks Act puts federal resources into helping communities reform zoning codes and land use regulations that block housing production. It will help communities move beyond policies rooted in 1920s-era federal model zoning codes that laid the foundations for the barriers causing the housing crisis.
🏡 Section 102 directs HUD to develop guidelines for single-stair buildings, helping cities re-legalize classical American designs such as brownstones, walk-ups, and small apartment buildings.
🏡The Housing Supply Expansion Act will eliminate the permanent chassis requirement for manufactured homes. This change could reduce their cost by $5,000–$10,000 per home and open up other benefits like increased design flexibility and make it easier to build two-story manufactured homes.
🏡 The Accelerating Home Building Act assists local governments in developing pre-approved housing designs to speed up production, unlock new supply and make construction more straightforward.
Thank you to the bipartisan coalition of lawmakers who understand that the only real solution to the housing crisis is to build more homes.
Our full statement here: https://www.niskanencenter.org/niskanen-center-applauds-bicameral-bipartisan-housing-deal-and-calls-for-passage-of-the-amended-21st-century-road-to-housing-act/
