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By MICHAEL CASEY and MARY CLARE JALONICK<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Senate passed a bipartisan housing bill on Monday that aims to reduce federal regulations and expand local control, one of the most sweeping efforts in recent decades to increase supply and bring down prices.<\/p>\n

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The bill, which passed 85-5 and now heads to the House, has been the focus of intense negotiations in recent weeks as lawmakers in both parties try to address housing costs in an election year. The final version of the legislation bans corporate investors from buying single-family homes but doesn\u2019t include a\u00a0Senate provision\u00a0that would have required investors to sell newly constructed homes within seven years.<\/p>\n

The measure was the result of years of work to \u201clower costs, expand housing supply, cut red tape, protect taxpayers, and help more Americans achieve the dream of homeownership,\u201d said Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., who worked with Democrats to get the bill passed.<\/p>\n

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the banking panel, said it is the most significant housing bill to pass Congress since 1990, when the average home in America was sold for $150,000. Now it costs more than $500,000, she said.<\/p>\n

The bill \u201cacknowledges that the federal government has a role to play in lowering housing prices,\u201d Warren told The Associated Press. \u201cFor the first time ever, private equity will be blocked from buying up single-family homes and trying to turn housing into one more Wall Street investment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate passage of the bill shapes up as a rare bipartisan legislative achievement when much of Republicans\u2019 agenda has stalled. The House is expected to give final approval later this week and send the bill to President Donald Trump, who has signaled his support.<\/p>\n

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California, who helped negotiate the legislation, said it was a \u201chuge step toward finally addressing the affordable housing and homelessness crises in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Housing costs are a concern for both parties<\/h4>\n

Republicans and Democrats have embraced the bill as a way to show they are addressing the nation\u2019s affordability crisis, driven in part by rising home prices due to a shortage of affordable housing. The U.S. housing market has been in a slump dating back to 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows.<\/p>\n

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes have been hovering close to a 4-million annual pace going back to 2023 \u2014 well short of the 5.2-million annual pace that\u2019s historically been the norm. Sales slowed last year to\u00a0a 30-year low\u00a0and have remained sluggish so far this year, declining in\u00a0January\u00a0and\u00a0February\u00a0versus a year earlier.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Economic Report of the President\u00a0in April found a shortage of 10 million homes, while a report this month from the Joint Center For Housing Studies at Harvard University found sales of existing homes were at three-decade lows and inventories were rising due to high home buying costs. \u201cCost burdens for both renters and owners continue to climb, while assistance remains profoundly underfunded,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

While the median U.S. monthly rent has been declining for nearly three years, it was still 17.2% higher in May than it was before the pandemic, according to data from Realtor.com.<\/p>\n

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Changes for grants, Section 8 and manufactured housing<\/h4>\n

To increase the supply of housing, the bill would streamline environmental reviews and speed up the construction process.<\/p>\n

It would offer funding to local governments that build more housing, including Community Development Block Grant money to places exceeding the median rate of homebuilding. It would also provide new dollars for communities to turn abandoned infrastructure into housing, and offers a framework for communities that want to reform outdated zoning regulations, which often limit larger housing developments.<\/p>\n

The legislation would allow banks to invest more in affordable housing and raise limits on the number of public housing units that can receive private financing through Section 8 funding to rehabilitate properties. And it would remove outdated requirements and expand federal financing to make manufactured homes more affordable.<\/p>\n

\u201cManufactured housing produces some of the most cost-effective housing in America, but access to financing has been tightly restricted,\u201d Warren said. \u201cThis creates the opportunity for more manufactured housing and, at the same time, creates a structure for people living in manufactured housing communities to organize and protect their investment in their homes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawmakers compromised on a disaster program<\/h4>\n

One of the sticking points between the two chambers was over a federal disaster recovery program.<\/p>\n

An earlier Senate bill had permanently authorized block grant recovery funds, a change intended to ensure that funding requests aren\u2019t needed after every disaster. House lawmakers opposed that provision because of concerns over how the program was run, so they agreed on a three-year authorization instead.<\/p>\n

The final bill has received widespread support in the housing community, both from organizations representing landlords and large property owners as well as groups that advocate for tenants and low-income renters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no magic wand that will fix this crisis overnight, and no single piece of legislation is perfect,\u201d said David Dworkin, chief executive of the National Housing Conference, the nation\u2019s oldest housing coalition.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompromise demands that. But this bill is a significant down payment on a long-term effort to make housing more affordable for all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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