周四，一项由特朗普支持的两党大规模法案在参议院通过，旨在推动负担得起的住房计划，但该法案在众议院的命运尚不明朗。
该法案更名为《21世纪住房之路法案》，整合了去年停滞不前的一项参议院住房法案，轻松通过了上议院，因为许多议员支持旨在增加经济适用房供应的一系列广泛措施。
该法案最初旨在帮助首次购房者和低收入美国人进入住房市场或获得更负担得起的住房选择。
参议院对该法案进行了调整，加入了唐纳德·特朗普总统要求的禁止机构投资者的条款，特朗普今年早些时候签署了一项行政命令禁止这种做法。上个月在国情咨文演讲中，特朗普敦促国会将该禁令编纂成法，并表示：”我们想要为人们提供住房，而不是为企业。”
这一条款引起了一些不满，特别是夏威夷州民主党参议员布莱恩·沙茨和几个行业组织，他们警告说，该条款的设计方式——迫使拥有350套或更多房产的业主在七年后出售——将扼杀出租市场并损害全国的出租供应。
这不足以减缓参议院的进程，但特朗普表示除非参议院通过选民身份证立法，否则他不会签署任何法案，加上众议院共和党人对法案修改的不满，可能预示着未来的麻烦。
众议院版本法案的联合领导人、内布拉斯加州共和党众议员迈克·弗洛德告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：”在我看来，参议院目前起草的住房法案存在未解决的问题。”
他呼应了沙茨对出租供应后果的担忧，并补充说，该法案”旨在降低成本，但参议院删除了重要的两党众议院条款，这些条款本可以大幅减少建造更多房屋的障碍。”
“他们的审议仍在进行中，我希望能有一些修正，但时间紧迫，”弗洛德说。”考虑到该法案目前的状态，我认为会议委员会可能是前进的最可行途径。”
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（南达科他州共和党人）表示，他相信一旦该法案通过参议院，”白宫将希望与我们在众议院的同僚合作，试图在那里通过它并提交给总统签署。”
“我们知道我们在参议院增加了一些内容，旨在使其更受众议院欢迎。我知道他们还有其他问题想在法案中解决，包括一些银行问题，但我认为这大体上是一项住房法案。”
“所以，我们认为我们确实制定了一项强有力的法案，”图恩继续说道。”这是十年来首次实现的目标。”
这是参议院银行、住房和城市事务委员会主席蒂姆·斯科特（南卡罗来纳州共和党人）与该委员会的顶级民主党议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（马萨诸塞州民主党人）之间谈判的结果。
两人认为，所做的修改应该使该立法更受众议院同僚的欢迎。
“该一揽子计划包括参议院一致支持的《住房之路法案》的绝大部分内容，整合了众议院的两党想法，并迈出了重要第一步，以遏制挤压家庭购房的企业房东，”沃伦本月早些时候表示。”国会应该通过这个一揽子计划，并继续努力制定进一步的立法来应对我国的住房危机。”
A massive bipartisan swell advanced a Trump-backed affordable housing package out of the Senate on Thursday, but its fate in the House is up in the air.
The bill, renamed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to incorporate a previous Senate housing bill that stalled last year, easily sailed through the upper chamber, given that many lawmakers support the wide-ranging slate of measures designed to increase the supply of affordable housing.
In its original form, the legislation was primarily intended to help first-time homebuyers and lower-income Americans enter the housing market or gain access to more affordable housing options.
The Senate tweaked the legislation, adding a ban on institutional investors sought by President Donald Trump, who earlier this year signed an executive order barring the practice. During his State of the Union address last month, Trump urged Congress to codify the ban and said, “We want homes for people, not for corporations.”
That provision gave some heartburn, notably to Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and several industry groups, who warned that the way it was designed — forcing owners of 350 or more units to sell after seven years — would kneecap the build-to-rent market and harm the supply of rentals throughout the country.
That was not enough to slow the bill down in the Senate, but Trump’s declaration that he wouldn’t sign any bills unless the Senate passed voter ID legislation, along with House Republicans grumbling over changes to the bill, could spell trouble ahead.
Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., co-lead of the House’s version of the bill, told Fox News Digital, “It seems to me that there are outstanding concerns with the Senate’s housing bill as currently drafted.”
He echoed Schatz’s concern about the build-to-rent supply consequences and added that the bill was “intended to cut costs, but the Senate removed important bipartisan House provisions that would have slashed barriers to building more homes.”
“Their process is still ongoing, and I am holding out hope for some fixes, but time runs short,” Flood said. “Given the bill’s current state, I think a conference may be the most viable path forward.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he believes that once the bill makes it through the Senate, “the White House will be wanting to work with our House counterparts to try and get it passed over there and get it on the President’s desk.”
“We know we’ve added some things to the bill here in the Senate that were designed to make it more palatable to the House. I know there are other issues they would like to address in it, some of the banking issues too, but I think this is, by and large, a housing bill.”
“So, we think we have really put together a strong bill,” Thune continued. “It’s something that hasn’t been done in over a decade.”
It’s a product of negotiations between Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., its top Democrat.
The pair argued that the changes made should make the legislation more palatable to their House counterparts.
“The package includes the vast majority of the Senate’s unanimously supported ROAD to Housing Act, incorporates bipartisan ideas from the House, and takes a good first step to rein in corporate landlords that are squeezing families out of homeownership,” Warren said earlier this month. “Congress should pass this package and continue working on further legislation to combat our nation’s housing crisis.”
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