Will cut red tape to speed up home building.

helped draft the legislation that will cut red-tape to speed up home building

Barr said the housing package will cut red tape to speed up home building.

Historic Housing Package Championed by Congressman Andy Barr Sails Through Congress | Press Releases | Congressman Andy Barr
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Barr's official homepage listed a May 20, 2026 press release titled "Historic Housing Package Championed by Congressman Andy Barr Sails Through Congress."

Barr publicly took credit for a housing package moving through Congress during the lookback window.

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Congressman Andy Barr
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The Federal Register published Executive Order 14394, which says unnecessary regulatory barriers and slow permitting have delayed construction and directs agencies to reduce barriers to building homes and to streamline housing-related permitting and standards.

Federal housing deregulation advanced in the same term, consistent with the promise's red-tape reduction goal.

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Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction
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Barr's office said the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act passed the U.S. House and that Barr helped draft legislation that would cut red tape to speed up home building, including streamlining housing development, updating manufactured-home rules, and exempting small housing developments from burdensome federal reviews.

Barr publicly claimed a concrete role in drafting and advancing a housing deregulation package directly matching the promise language, but the source is his own office and does not prove enactment.

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Historic Housing Package Championed by Congressman Andy Barr Sails Through Congress
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Congress.gov lists H.R. 6644 as the Housing for the 21st Century Act, sponsored by Rep. French Hill, with latest action Senate - 02/11/2026 Received in the Senate. The tracker status is Passed House, not Passed Senate, To President, or Became Law.

The main housing bill Barr touted had advanced through the House but official Congress.gov status did not show final enactment, supporting partial rather than full delivery.

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H.R.6644 - Housing for the 21st Century Act
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 57 on H.R. 6644, Housing for the 21st Century Act, as Passed by 390 yeas to 9 nays. The vote table lists Barr, Republican, Kentucky, voting Yea.

Barr voted for the housing bill when it passed the House, a concrete legislative action toward the promise.

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Roll Call 57 | Bill Number: H.R. 6644
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The CRS-authored Congress.gov summary says the bill revises federal housing programs and includes exemptions for certain housing-related activities from environmental review, including certain construction, improvement, or rehabilitation of residential buildings, and eliminates the permanent chassis requirement for manufactured homes.

Official bill summary shows provisions that would reduce federal review requirements and modernize manufactured-housing rules, aligning with red-tape reduction for housing supply.

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H.R.6644 - Housing for the 21st Century Act
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The House report describes statutory NEPA exemptions for new construction infill housing, affordable-housing acquisitions, rehabilitation projects, and new construction projects of 15 units or less, and directs HUD to avoid duplicative environmental reviews and streamline inter-agency compliance.

The committee report documents specific red-tape-cutting mechanisms in the bill, but they depended on enactment to fully deliver the promise.

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H. Rept. 119-457 - Housing for the 21st Century Act
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Executive Order 14394 states that unnecessary regulatory barriers and slow permitting have delayed construction and made housing less affordable. It sets administration policy to reduce regulatory barriers to building homes and directs agencies to review, revise, streamline, or reduce housing-related permitting and regulatory burdens.

A same-term federal executive action advanced the substance of the promise, though it was presidential action rather than a Barr-authored legislative enactment.

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Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction
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Barr's official page lists him on the House Financial Services Committee and as Chair of the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, with other committee assignments listed separately.

This supports the plausibility of Barr participating in housing and finance legislation, but it is contextual rather than proof of enactment.

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Committees and Caucuses | Congressman Andy Barr
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Barr's office said FHFA action restored consumer choice in homeowners insurance policies by addressing a prior policy requiring federally backed mortgages to carry full replacement cost value insurance, and quoted Kentucky Farm Bureau crediting Barr's advocacy.

This is a housing-related deregulatory effort Barr advocated for, but it concerns homeowner insurance affordability rather than directly speeding home building, so it only weakly supports the promise.

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Barr Applauds President Trump and FHFA Director Bill Pulte for Ending Biden-era Regulations to Help Rural Homeowners
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