House members urge White House to sign 21st Century Road to Housing Act, stressing production and affordability aims

Members of the House used floor time on June 25 to press for swift executive action on the 21st Century Road to Housing Act and to outline what they said the bill would accomplish.

A member identified in the record as the gentleman from New York said the bill "incentivizes housing production, streamlines construction processes, and improves access to financing," and praised provisions that, the speaker said, would help repair aging homes and invest in community infrastructure. "It also finally prohibits large investors from purchasing single family homes so that they remain affordable for families," the speaker said, urging the President to "promptly sign this bipartisan bill into law." (speaker: the gentleman from New York)

Rep. Al Green, speaking for an extended period as the designee of the Minority Leader, framed the vote’s next step as an imminent executive decision and urged the President to sign or allow the statutory ten‑day rule to make the bill law. Green said the bill had received broad bipartisan support in Congress and argued it would "allow builders" to construct more homes by reducing "needless hurdles" and would include disaster recovery reforms to speed funds after natural disasters. He told the House the President had declined to sign the measure (Green’s characterization) and called on colleagues and citizens to press for its enactment: "If you sign the bill, Mr. President, you will help those who would like to acquire equity," Green said. (speaker: Al Green)

Speakers on the floor attributed several concrete aims to the legislation: incentivizing housing production, reducing regulatory barriers to construction, widening access to financing, assisting home repairs and community infrastructure, and curbing investor purchases of single‑family homes to protect affordability. Those aims were described during one‑minute speeches and in extended remarks and were presented by members as reasons the measure deserved quick executive action.

The record from this floor proceeding contains members’ statements and characterizations of the bill and the President’s response as described orally on the floor. The transcript does not record the President’s statement; assertions about the President’s actions and intentions in this article are attributed to the Members who made them on the House floor. The House adjourned at the close of the session; any further procedural steps (formal transmittal to the White House, signature, veto, or automatic enactment under the ten‑day counting rule) were not recorded in the floor transcript covered here.