The Senate has passed the largest housing bill in decades — bipartisan legislation designed to improve housing affordability and availability through deregulation, expanding old programs and banning institutional investors from buying single-family homes, with few exceptions.
The bill passed 89 to 10.
“It’s Democrats. It’s Republicans. It’s pieces they built out together,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a co-sponsor of the bill, in an interview with NPR. “That is the strength of this bill.”
“It’s not a Republican issue or a Democrat Issue,” said Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the bill’s other sponsor, speaking in advance of the vote on the Senate floor. “It’s an issue about helping moms like the one who raised me, the amazing woman that she was, become homeowners.”
I’d rather have those that the banning of corporations. God I had how the dems are embracing the abundance/gop ideas of getting rid of regulations in the name of cutting costs. All it does is lead to same pricing but worse quality