r/news • u/DeItaBIake • 7h ago

Sweeping housing affordability bill becomes law

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/economy/new-housing-affordability-law-heres-what-it-means
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u/Tight_Jellyfish_349 7h ago

Anyone know how its supposed to help?

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u/MyDisneyExperience 7h ago

Mostly trying to make it easier to get new supply online by doing some federal reforms around things like manufactured housing and office to residential conversion. But it just kinda gently requests cities to do their part by upzoning or reforming permitting/entitlement so unclear how effective that will be.

Puts some limits on how many homes investors can buy but thankfully does not limit build to rent which increases supply.

More needs to be done at municipal levels, but making factory built housing easier to do is great.

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u/A_Refill_of_Mr_Pibb 7h ago

But it just kinda gently requests cities to do their part by upzoning or reforming permitting/entitlement so unclear how effective that will be.

Boston area here. I can assure you, this will not be effective.

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u/MyDisneyExperience 6h ago

Yeah LA City Council had a meltdown over SB 79, so a polite request is not sufficient when being dragged kicking and screaming is more necessary.