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On Friday morning, Trump posted on Truth Social: "I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and sent to the White House, in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT."

Despite Trump downplaying the bill, it includes an idea he promoted: capping how many single-family homes big investors can buy. The bill says corporate landlords that own at least 350 houses won't be able to buy more. The goal is to make the housing market more competitive for individual buyers, who are often outbid by investors who can make all-cash offers.

Some Democratic lawmakers had long supported such a ban; Republicans were more skeptical until Trump backed the idea. Still, House Republicans did quash part of the ban that would have required developers of build-to-rent homes to sell off those rentals after seven years.

Other provisions are meant to boost homebuilding, such as by allowing developers to skip an environmental review if a house is going up between two buildings that were already reviewed.

Another provision creates a grant program communities can use to develop "pattern books," a collection of preapproved housing designs that would need fewer approvals before construction.___

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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

This is a step, but only a first step and the republicans still fucked with it. Also, is that blackmail or extortion on trump signing in exchange for his "rig the election" bill?

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Does it matter if there's no punishment against it? If it were actually punished, it would be extortion but here we are

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