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SEN ELIZABETH WARREN: The housing bill is law without Trump. Families need Congress to keep sprinting

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act establishes powerful federal incentives to get communities across the country to build more homes

By Sen. Elizabeth Warren Fox News

Published July 16, 2026 5:00am EDT

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The biggest housing bill in more than 30 years is finally law. For more than two weeks, President Donald Trump refused to sign the bill — not because he had a problem with it, but because he cared so little about the squeeze families are facing that he sat on the bill for so long, it became law without him.

President Trump calls the affordability crisis a "hoax" and has called this landmark legislation "minor." But overwhelming numbers of Americans understand that the affordability and housing crises are anything but minor. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is an important step toward doing something about it.

This new law establishes powerful federal incentives to get communities across the country to build more housing. It removes outdated rules, so that housing can be built more quickly. It makes it cheaper to build manufactured housing.

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The bill also stops private equity from buying up single-family homes. For years, I’ve been raising the alarm about private equity taking over industries, stripping them........

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