U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs sets July 29 markup for bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act of 2025

The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs announced it will hold a legislative markup to consider S.XXX, the ROAD to Housing Act of 2025, a bipartisan housing package incorporating proposals from members across the committee. The package is framed as aiming to boost housing supply, improve housing affordability, and increase oversight and efficiency of federal housing regulators and housing programs, with the executive session described as the committee’s first bipartisan housing markup in over a decade. The proposal outlines measures to expand and preserve housing supply by removing regulatory barriers to development, preserving existing housing, promoting innovative construction methods including modular and manufactured housing, and addressing neighborhood blight and disaster recovery needs. It also includes affordability and access provisions focused on expanding homeownership, improving affordability, supporting housing opportunities for veterans, reducing homelessness, and reducing appraisal shortages while addressing inaccurate appraisals, alongside accountability and oversight measures intended to improve the efficiency of taxpayer spending, promote evidence-based policy, strengthen oversight of housing regulators, streamline program coordination, and increase performance, transparency, and accountability across housing programs. The executive session is scheduled for 10:00 AM ET on July 29, 2025, in 538 Dirksen Senate Office Building and will be live streamed on the committee’s website.