Warren–Scott YIMBY Deal in Senate

Updated: 2026.01.12 17D ago 11 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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The Housing Market’s Lock-In Effects
Paul H. Kupiec & Alex J. Pollock 2026.01.12 82% relevant
Both pieces address federal levers to increase housing supply: the article critiques demand‑side subsidies and instead proposes supply‑unlocking measures (mortgage portability/compensation, capital‑gains relief), which dovetail with the bipartisan, supply‑focused YIMBY legislative approach described in the existing idea.
Eric Adams Just Blew His Chance to Delay Mamdani’s Rent Freeze
Jarrett Dieterle 2026.01.12 60% relevant
The Mamdani rent‑freeze episode sits directly in the national housing policy debate the Warren–Scott item represents: it shows how city‑level choices (freeze vs supply incentives) interact with broader bipartisan efforts to address housing through supply‑focused legislation and politics.
Public Choice Links, 1/9/2026
Arnold Kling 2026.01.09 68% relevant
John McGinnis and Josh Barro pieces in the roundup engage the same problem set the Warren–Scott package addresses: supply‑focused federal interventions and the political difficulty of achieving them; the link list surfaces the public‑choice obstacles that make even bipartisan supply bills hard to implement locally.
2026 is the year of housing
Halina Bennet 2026.01.07 85% relevant
Both pieces treat housing as a place where federal legislation and bipartisan bargains can meaningfully move supply and affordability; the Slow Boring article documents federal momentum, program reorientation (New Markets Tax Credit), and the political context that makes a YIMBY‑style federal push plausible this year.
HUD Archives: White House Conference on Minority Homeownership: Blueprint for the American Dream
2026.01.05 76% relevant
Both are federal efforts to change housing outcomes by coordinating policy and incentives: the 2002 'Blueprint' set a national minority‑homeownership target and assembled industry commitments, while the Warren–Scott package represents a modern bipartisan federal supply‑and‑incentives strategy; the HUD page is a historical analogue showing how targets + partnerships were used to mobilize private actors.
Socialism Made Easy
Nicole Gelinas 2026.01.04 68% relevant
The article stresses supply‑side limits (how prior housing expansion marginally eased prices) and argues that making cities 'affordable' requires building—linking Mamdani’s rhetoric to the existing national supply‑first conversation exemplified by the Warren–Scott bipartisan housing package.
The Year of Unaffordability
John O. McGinnis 2025.12.31 78% relevant
McGinnis foregrounds housing supply and deregulation as central remedies for affordability; that aligns directly with the bipartisan, supply‑first YIMBY package (Warren–Scott) described in the corpus, which treats federal incentives and regulatory streamlining as the practical policy response to rising housing costs.
The Government’s “Back-of-House” Problem
2025.12.30 45% relevant
The article’s problem statement (that government 'back‑of‑house' prevents building) connects to the policy response embodied in bipartisan supply‑first bills like the ROAD to Housing Act — both address permitting and regulatory barriers; actors linked are federal lawmakers and reform coalitions trying to translate voter discontent into supply reforms.
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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