U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs chairman pushes to include ROAD to Housing Act provisions in NDAA negotiations

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs published a statement from Chairman Tim Scott urging congressional negotiators to incorporate key provisions from the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act into the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), framing the move as a practical step to expand housing supply and ease affordability pressures. The ROAD to Housing Act is positioned as the first bipartisan comprehensive housing package advanced in more than a decade and was reported out of the committee 24–0 in late July after being introduced by Scott and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren. It contains 36 member-driven provisions structured around expanding and preserving housing supply, improving affordability and access, advancing accountability and fiscal responsibility, and strengthening oversight and program integrity, with the release also noting that most provisions have House companions and highlighting stakeholder support for measures such as zoning and land-use reforms, streamlining federal program processes, appraisal-related updates, and permanent authorization of the Community Development Block Grant–Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program. The statement situates the effort within ongoing House-Senate NDAA negotiations, with stakeholder groups urging conferees to keep the ROAD package and referenced Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) provisions in the final NDAA.