Warren–Scott YIMBY Deal in Senate

Updated: 2025.12.03 2D ago 3 sources
The Senate advanced a 27‑bill package (the ROAD to Housing Act) co‑authored by Elizabeth Warren and Tim Scott that centers on boosting supply via federal incentives, technical assistance, financing fixes, and regulatory streamlining. It cleared the Banking Committee 24–0 and then passed the Senate, an unusually broad coalition for a substantive housing bill. — A bipartisan, supply‑first federal housing bill suggests a national pivot toward YIMBY policy and a new template—carrots and de‑friction—by which Washington can influence local housing markets.

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Prices rise and experiments abound
Halina Bennet 2025.12.03 70% relevant
Both items are about supply‑focused housing responses to affordability pressure: the article describes cities using zoning and local experiments to boost housing while the Warren–Scott entry records a federal, bipartisan supply‑first push; together they show a multi‑level policy pivot toward supply remedies.
California Passes on Abundance
Jon Miltimore 2025.12.02 60% relevant
The essay’s warning that local rent‑control expansions undercut supply‑side affordability strategies connects to the bipartisan federal supply‑focused reforms (Warren–Scott package) — the LA vote illustrates the political obstacles such federal incentives face when local jurisdictions instead double down on rent caps rather than enabling new housing production.
Is the Senate Fixing Housing Policy?
Santi Ruiz 2025.10.16 100% relevant
ROAD to Housing Act: unanimous committee vote (24–0), Warren–Scott co‑sponsorship, and Senate passage despite a shutdown, with provisions to ease regulatory roadblocks and expand financing for new homes.
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