The bipartisan plan to ease the nation's housing crisis
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | One example of something they're trying to tweak is streamlining the federal-level environmental reviews that certain housing projects have to go through. |
| 0:15.6 | You might say there's an abundance of policies in Congress right now, meant to spur the development of more housing. |
| 0:34.7 | It's Thursday, May 28th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBWR. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm Chris Bentley. |
| 0:43.8 | Today on the show, the Department of Justice is investigating the woman who won a sexual assault case against President Trump. |
| 0:52.6 | Also, the Trump family is making billions off cryptocurrency and |
| 0:57.6 | prediction markets. The Trump administration is cutting regulations on those industries, |
| 1:03.1 | and the president has vowed to protect them. The chairman's office intervened to help make sure |
| 1:08.7 | that the company's got what they wanted. And two senior officials who |
| 1:14.4 | questioned what was going on were then effectively ousted. More on that in about 10 minutes. |
| 1:22.4 | But first, you may have noticed housing is expensive and hard to find. Those two facts are related, |
| 1:31.0 | of course, and there's a major new bill in Congress that aims to address the problem. |
| 1:36.8 | It's a bipartisan bill, with policies coming from Republican and Democratic lawmakers. |
| 1:42.3 | If enacted, the 21st century Road to Housing Act, would be the most sweeping housing legislation in decades. |
| 1:50.1 | It would prohibit private equity firms from buying up more single-family homes and reward local governments that streamline the process they use to approve new housing, among other things. |
| 2:02.9 | Rebecca Pichotto has been digging into the legislation. |
| 2:06.5 | She covers the residential rental market and housing policy for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 2:11.1 | Here's her conversation with Robin Young. |
| 2:13.6 | We know lawmakers in both the House and Senate have their own versions, and they've agreed to put these restrictions on big investors scooping up large numbers of homes. |
| 2:23.9 | Now, we understand this started happening in 2008. |
| 2:27.1 | After there was a housing collapse, mortgage lenders had given mortgages to people who really couldn't pay them and houses foreclosed, investors swept in. |
| 2:35.8 | It was considered a good thing at the time that somebody was at least buying the stock. |
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