From Washington: New Hope for Homebuyers? Congress Reaches Deal to Fix Housing Crisis
The Fox News Rundown
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🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:33.1 | Sunday, February 15, 2026. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm Ryan Schmels, Congress looking to tackle the affordability crisis with a strongly bipartisan bill. |
| 0:43.9 | It's called the Streamline Housing Act, which just requires a HUD and USDA to get on the same page. |
| 0:51.2 | When you're getting permits and you are bottled up because HUD has one rule and |
| 0:57.1 | USDA has another rule, it slows the whole process down. And, you know, in this case, |
| 1:02.2 | when people are looking to buy a home or build a home, they want to be able to get it done |
| 1:06.5 | as quickly as possible. Time is money. It costs more as time goes by. So we're just asking |
| 1:12.9 | them as to get on the same page. And Republicans in the Senate are discussing new strategies |
| 1:18.5 | to tackle waste, fraud, and abuse. We have literally hundreds of billions of dollars going out. |
| 1:24.6 | That may be fraud, may not be fraud. We just don't know. And GAO looks at |
| 1:28.5 | and goes, we don't know what these are going to. This is the Fox News rundown from Washington. |
| 1:42.4 | The affordability crisis is being felt across the country, and according to the National Association of Realtors, the average age of a first-time home buyer is now 40. |
| 1:52.3 | White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt on Fox & Friends says the Trump administration is staying optimistic about bringing down the cost of living ahead of the midterms. |
| 2:01.6 | How affordable things are for you is how much money you have in your pocket, and we're in the middle of the largest tax refund season ever. |
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