Today, 117 undersigned pro-housing organizations released the following joint statement on the updated 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act and the upcoming Senate vote:
“As housing costs continue to climb across the country, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act offers the most comprehensive federal housing package in decades. It combines the vast majority of the Senate’s unanimously supported ROAD to Housing Act with key provisions from the Housing for the 21st Century Act, which passed the House 390-9. With the White House signaling its support, this legislation has a clear path to the President’s desk.
“We commend Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for their extraordinary leadership in getting us to this point. They’ve built a broad, bipartisan coalition around a simple idea: to bring down costs, we need to build more homes.
“This package focuses on what matters most to increase supply: tying federal funding to actual housing production, incentivizing state and local regulatory reform, streamlining outdated federal programs and regulations, and investing in new ways to build. America needs to massively build its way out of the housing crisis, and these provisions will help make that possible.
“At the same time, Congress must ensure Section 901 works for the families this bill is designed to help. Everyone deserves a fair shot at accessing a home, and we need investors building new housing to help make that possible. Build-to-rent housing meets an important and growing demand, and we should not discourage the construction of new homes that are so critical to solving our affordability crisis. We welcome collaboration in advancing language that gets this balance right.
“We support any fix to Section 901 that protects housing supply by preserving the ability to build new rental homes, including a narrow change to protect new supply everywhere except the markets where concentration of investor ownership is believed to be a problem.
“Now it’s time to get this over the finish line. We urge the Senate to adopt this targeted change and pass the package quickly so relief can move forward without delay. American families cannot afford to wait.”
Signed:
National –
- Center for Public Enterprise
- Grounded Solutions Network
- Inclusive Abundance Action
- Institute for Progress
- National Low-Income Housing Coalition
- National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association
- Niskanen Center
- Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH)
- Up for Growth Action
- Welcoming Neighbors Network
- YIMBY Action
- YIMBY Law
Arizona — Tucson for Everyone, YIMBY Maricopa
California — Abundant Housing Los Angeles, California YIMBY, Circulate San Diego, East Bay YIMBY, Grow The Richmond, Mountain View YIMBY, Napa-Solano for Everyone, Northern Neighbors, Peninsula for Everyone, San Francisco YIMBY, San Jose YIMBY, San Mateo Forward, Santa Cruz YIMBY, Santa Rosa YIMBY, SLOCo YIMBY, South Bay YIMBY, Ventura County YIMBY, Yes In Redwood City, YIMBY Los Angeles, YIMBY Monterey Peninsula, YIMBY Oceanside, Yolo YIMBY
Colorado — YIMBY Arvada, YIMBY Denver, YIMBY Fort Collins, YIMBY North Metro
Connecticut — Pro-Homes Connecticut, YIMBY South Central CT
Delaware — YIMBY Delaware
Florida — Florida Housing Coalition, Gainesville is for People, More Homes Miami, Orlando YIMBY, YIMBY Tampa
Georgia — Abundant Housing Atlanta, Athens Urbanists
Hawai'i — Hawai'i YIMBY, Housing Hawai'i's Future
Idaho — Gem State Housing Alliance
Illinois — Abundant Housing Illinois, CUrbanism Club, Rockford Area YIMBY
Indiana — YIMBYana
Kansas — YIMBY Wichita
Kentucky — YIMBY Louisville
Maryland — YIMBY Maryland
Massachusetts — Abundant Housing Massachusetts, A Better Cambridge, Boston Artist Impact, Citizens Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA), Dorchester Growing Together, Jamaica Plain YIMBY, Somerville YIMBY, WalkUP Roslindale, Haverhill Homes for All
Michigan — Abundant Housing Michigan, YIMBY Oakland County, YIMBY Plymouth
Minnesota — Twin Cities YIMBY
Montana — Front Step Community Land Trust, Livable Flathead, Shelter WF
New Hampshire — Housing Action New Hampshire, New Hampshire Youth Movement, Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoast
North Carolina — Asheville for All, CITYBUILDER NC, Yes! In My Triangle, Sustain Charlotte
New York – Abundance NY, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Open New York
Ohio — NEOurbanism
Oklahoma — YIMBY Oklahoma City
Oregon — Central Oregon YIMBY, Salem YIMBY, 1000 Friends of Oregon
Pennsylvania — Pro-Housing Lehigh Valley, Pro-Housing Philly, Pro-Housing Pittsburgh, 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, 5th Square Advocacy (Philadelphia)
Rhode Island — Neighbors Welcome! Rhode Island, Providence Urbanist Network
South Carolina — Palmetto YIMBY
Tennessee — Housing Now Nashville
Texas — Dallas Housing Coalition, Dallas Neighbors for Housing
Utah — Logan YIMBY, Wasatch Advocates for Livable Communities
Vermont – Let’s Build Homes
Virginia — Housing Opportunities Made Equal (HOME) of Virginia, RVA YIMBY, YIMBY Hampton Roads, YIMBY Prince William County, YIMBYs of NoVA, 15-Minute Fredericksburg
Washington — Housing Development Consortium, Seattle YIMBY
Washington, D.C. — DC YIMBYs, Greater Greater Washington
Wisconsin — Madison is for People, Walworth County YIMBY, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin
Wyoming — Wyoming Neighbors for Housing, Shelter JH
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