I will keep up my work to lower housing costs by cutting government red tape,
Lower housing costs by cutting government red tape.
Occurrences
The amendment includes several provisions introduced and backed by Congressman Flood and represents a bipartisan, bicameral effort to lower housing costs.
The amendment includes several provisions introduced and backed by Congressman Flood and represents a bipartisan, bicameral effort to lower housing costs.
Housing & Insurance Chairman Flood Calls for Passage of Bipartisan Amendment to the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Flood said the amended text to the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act includes several of his bills and housing priorities and urged passage of the bipartisan amendment.
"I look forward to working with our colleagues in the Senate to get housing affordability legislation to President Trump's desk swiftly."
Evidence
Flood and Rep. Maggie Goodlander introduced H.R. 9311, the bipartisan Build Housing Affordably Act, which the office says would give affordable-housing developers immediate relief from Build America, Buy America requirements that were freezing projects.
Flood's office said the House-Senate agreement on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act included provisions he introduced and backed, and described it as the first major housing legislation Congress has passed in decades.
Assessments
Flood took concrete federal legislative steps aimed at reducing housing-related government red tape, including introducing the bipartisan Build Housing Affordably Act and helping advance broader housing legislation containing provisions he introduced or backed. That shows meaningful action within his term and some candidate credit for materially advancing the policy approach. But the record here does not show that he fully delivered the promised outcome of lowering housing costs, only that he pursued and partially advanced deregulatory housing measures.