The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the First Bipartisan Housing Bill in Decades, Heads to Trump's Desk

On Tuesday, the landmark 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the first bipartisan bill on housing to pass in more than a decade, cleared the House of Representatives after the Senate passed it on Monday. It is slated to reach President Donald Trump's desk on Wednesday; however, as my colleague Ward Clark highlights, Trump is now refusing to sign it.

A landmark housing affordability bill is headed to President Donald Trump’s desk after winning overwhelming support in Congress this week, setting the stage for the most sweeping federal housing package in a generation.
The bill aims to tackle America’s housing affordability crisis primarily through encouraging more supply, including of manufactured homes; and through encouraging local governments to reform zoning and permitting restrictions. The bill also includes a first-of-its-kind limit on private equity by prohibiting large investors from buying single-family homes.
A rare bipartisan effort, the bill reflects a growing recognition in Congress that the high cost of living is squeezing Americans and putting homeownership, long a cornerstone of the American dream, increasingly out of reach.
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted to pass the bill, called the “21st Century Road to Housing Act,” just one day after the Senate approved it.

While the SAVE America Act still languishes in the Senate, Trump is sticking to his commitment not to sign any new legislation until that bill is passed.

What is interesting are the members of Congress who did not back this bill, and their reasons. Thirty-two House members and five senators voted against its passage, with 10 senators who did not vote at all.

The 32 House Republicans who voted against the housing bill:
-Chip Roy
-Tim Burchett
-Anna Paulina Luna
-Brandon Gill
-Gregory Steube
-Mary Miller
-Thomas Massie
-Morgan Luttrell
-Tom McClintock
-Barry Moore
-Ralph Norman
-Scott Perry
-Bob Onder
-Keith Self
-David…
— Nicole Silverio (@NicoleMSilverio) June 23, 2026

-Anna Paulina Luna
-Brandon Gill
-Gregory Steube
-Mary Miller
-Thomas Massie
-Morgan Luttrell
-Tom McClintock
-Barry Moore
-Ralph Norman
-Scott Perry
-Bob Onder
-Keith Self
-David Schweikert
-Clay Higgins
-Randy Fine
-Diana Harshbarger
-Andy Harris
-Mike Harris
-Kat Cammack
-Warren Davidson
-Eric Burlison
-Aaron Bean
-Eli Crane
-Byron Donalds
-Andrew Clyde
-Andy Biggs
-Sheri Biggs
-Michael Cloud
-Lauren Boebert
-Clay Fuller

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Detractors like Republican Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) asserted that the bill is more "big government garbage & spending." Roy outlined the problematic sections, including one that grants the government the right to interfere with the rights of property owners to remove bad tenants.

The Housing bill is full of big government garbage & spending. Yet the @HouseGOP is going to muscle it through with democrats tomorrow over conservative opposition. Just a few of its sins:

1. Rep Tlaib’s Sec. 207 (H.R. 6768), which is a $200 million affordable housing pilot…
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) June 22, 2026

The Housing bill is full of big government garbage & spending. Yet the @HouseGOP is going to muscle it through with democrats tomorrow over conservative opposition. Just a few of its sins:
1. Rep Tlaib’s Sec. 207 (H.R. 6768), which is a $200 million affordable housing pilot program to incentivize dense subsidized ‘affordable housing’ units.
2. Sec. 101: ‘reforms’ housing counseling agencies (HCAs) to provide rental dispute services to bad tenants facing lawful eviction. There is no reason we should be providing government-funded counselors to help people derail lawful evictions.
3. Sec. 106: establishes an eviction helpline program. For the same reasons as above, we should not subsidize the derailing of lawful eviction process for bad tenants.
4. A three-year authorization (with a ‘sense of Congress’ that it should be extended permanently) of the controversial Community Development Block Grant Disaster Relief (CDBG-DR) program. The program is controversial because its dispersement has been seriously flawed in the past - payments have taken years to be made,and the allocations have overwhelmingly gone to dense metro areas, ignoring rural communities... it should be scrapped entirely, and disaster repair payments should only be done by FEMA.
5. Indefinitely reauthorizes the HOME grant program and significantly expands the criteria for eligibility.
6. 7-year authorization of what had been an original Senate Pilot program to the Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement (PRICE) which authorizes HUD to provide grants to grantees like NGOs, government agencies, and other organizations to purchase trailer parks, on the condition that they charge “affordable” rent.
7. RAD Program: Authorizes the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program reauthorization (which the house removed) and increases the cap to 100,000 units. This program is terrible as it provides vouchers for localities to raise money to convert units into long-term section 8 housing.
8. Does nothing to limit Foreign Ownership: Similar to Rep. Stuebe’s amendment to the farm bill on FCOC and FEOC bans on agricultural land purchases, language should have been included for aforeign adversary ban on housing stock purchases… there is no language prohibiting a Chinese citizen or company from buying an American single-family home.
9. Does nothing to 1) Make Sanctuary jurisdictions ineligible for housing grant funding. 2) or Codify Trump’s ‘Mixed Status’ rule, which prohibits the prorating of housing welfare and benefits to households with illegal or ineligible alien residents.
10. Keeps Eviction Moratorium: Included in the CARES Act, was a 30-day eviction moratorium. While most of the CARES Act sunsetted or has been repealed post-COVID, this provision remains on the books.

Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Mike Lee (R-UT) also voted against the bill. Sen. Scott decried the fact that he had submitted an amendment for accountability and oversight to ensure the aims of the bill would be adhered to. Scott claims he was not able to bring that amendment to the floor before the bill passed.

Scott highlighted an amendment he offered to the housing bill that he said was not entertained in a post on X ahead of the final Senate vote on the measure.
“If we’re passing the ROAD to Housing Act, I think it’s only fair to make sure it actually works,” the Florida Senator said.
“I offered an Amendment to make sure Congress gets an annual report on how this bill directly impacts housing affordability for middle income homeowners. But, I never got the chance to bring it up. This should have been a no-brainer. It proves that what we’re doing HELPS the American people.”

Home prices are going through the roof in America and Congress is playing around with solutions that will only make things worse — not better.

Point me to the section of the “ROAD to Housing” bill that actually makes housing more affordable for middle class families. https://t.co/AHMOwTZ3R9
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) June 16, 2026

Paul called the bill the "Path Toward the Destruction of Property Rights Act,” and detailed why in a lengthy X article that can be read here.

In a statement to a local Alabama publication, Sen. Tuberville said:

“I’m all for looking for ways to bring down housing costs for American families. But giving the federal government more control over housing is not the answer,” he said in a statement provided to 1819 News. “We have seen time and time again that writing a blank check to blue cities means that federal tax dollars will end up in the hands of illegals instead of going to the American citizens it was intended to help.’
Tuberville said the bill also expands the “already bloated” Department of Housing and Urban Development, “which is the opposite of what we need to be doing.”
“We should be focused on getting government out of the way and allowing the free market to drive down costs through competition and a booming economy,” he added.

Economist Steve Moore agrees with the representatives who voted against, especially regarding the restrictions on businesses and what they can and cannot purchase. Moore appeared on Fox Business Network's "The Bottom Line," and expressed that he hated "the idea of restricting what private companies can buy in this country."

WATCH:

.@StephenMoore gives his take on Congress’ housing bill aimed at limiting institutional investors’ home purchases: “I hate the idea of restricting what private companies can buy in this country… This is America” | @dagenmcdowell @BrianBrenberg pic.twitter.com/XVno6Dmt2I
— The Bottom Line (@BottomLineFBN) June 23, 2026

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