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The House on Tuesday passed a sweeping housing package with overwhelming bipartisan support, sending the legislation to the president’s desk and delivering a major victory for congressional leaders in both parties.
The lower chamber passed the bill by a vote of 358-32, with all 32 “no” votes coming from Republicans. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) brought the bill to the floor under a fast-track process called suspension of the rules, which requires two-thirds majority support for passage.
It passed the Senate 85-5 on Monday.
Congressional leaders rushed to pass the bill after negotiators released text of an agreement last week. That followed months of negotiations and fights between the House and Senate.
The bill aims to lower housing costs by tying federal grants to housing construction in an effort to create incentives for local governments to build more housing, and streamlining the process for environmental reviews, among other things.
It would also restrict large investors from buying new single-family homes, an issue that Republicans in the House and Senate battled over.
House Financial Committee Services Chair French Hill (R-Ark.) and the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), along with their Senate counterparts, Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), were the main negotiators of the bill.
“Housing affordability starts with supply, and this bill makes meaningful progress toward building more homes and lowering costs for American families,” Hill said in a statement before the bill’s passage.
Passage of the legislation comes as both parties are seeking to make affordability a central message to voters amid a high-stakes 2026 midterm election cycle.
Though the measure passed easily, hardline conservatives had railed earlier in the day against moving it throught he fast-track process.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said she and 24 other House Republicans had signed a letter vowing to oppose any Senate bills until the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act passes.
The SAVE America Act would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and the presentation of an ID to cast a ballot.
“The President should VETO the Senate “Housing” Bill until they attach SAVE America if House GOP leadership tries to pull a fast one and remove all our House Rules in order to get it passed,” Luna wrote on the social platform X.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), policy chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, wrote on X that the housing bill is “full of big government garbage & spending.”
President Trump is expected to sign the bill Wednesday.
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