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The Senate has passed the largest housing bill in decades — bipartisan legislation designed to improve housing affordability and availability through deregulation, expanding old programs and banning institutional investors from buying single-family homes, with few exceptions.

The bill passed 89 to 10.

"It's Democrats. It's Republicans. It's pieces they built out together," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., a co-sponsor of the bill, in an interview with NPR. "That is the strength of this bill."

"It's not a Republican issue or a Democrat Issue," said Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the bill's other sponsor, speaking in advance of the vote on the Senate floor. "It's an issue about helping moms like the one who raised me, the amazing woman that she was, become homeowners."

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Yup getting corporate out of home buying is wonderful but they just cut a whole slew of environmental protections AND lowered standard for manufactured homes.

Basically the only way to get any Republicans to sign off was to screw over more Americans And make this place more of a shithole. And I'm sure corporations have already found a workaround for this bill.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 hours ago

they just cut a whole slew of environmental protections AND lowered standard for manufactured homes

I'd rather have those that the banning of corporations. God I had how the dems are embracing the abundance/gop ideas of getting rid of regulations in the name of cutting costs. All it does is lead to same pricing but worse quality

[–] parsizzle@piefed.social 4 points 19 hours ago

Why else would they allow the bill to be passed? Let's be honest here, lobbyists and corporations control the government. Whoever has the most money has the most sway casue "donations are free speech" 

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Oh that's easy. Turns out everyone on the board is now a landlord for like 100 properties each, they're all simply ADMINISTERED through the corporation, for which each board member pays a modest fee.