{"id":41,"date":"2026-10-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/randyodell-com\/2026\/10\/08\/homebuilder-lobbying-pushes-housing-reform\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:00:00","slug":"homebuilder-lobbying-pushes-housing-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/08\/homebuilder-lobbying-pushes-housing-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebuilder Lobbying Pushes Housing Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/gordon-odell\/homebuilding-leaders-reforms-remotion-videos-c083\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Banking, homebuilding, and government leaders urged Congress to expand housing reforms, saying the passed federal law missed barriers affecting Americans&#039; ability to buy homes.<br \/>\nLarge housing commitments from lenders and a rental platform highlighted financing interest, even as one banking executive said middle-income buyers were priced out.<br \/>\nThat executive said a middle-income home needed $124K income after ~doubling in 5 yr, while 169 of 390 metros lacked enough supply.<br \/>\nIndustry advocates said federal sourcing rules increase compliance demands, and a trade group estimated fees and related costs added $131K to building a new home.<br \/>\nBuilders said local politics often shape project success, making public-private deals, timing, and cleaner deregulation important tools for developing communities more quickly.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking, homebuilding, and government leaders urged Congress to expand housing reforms, saying the passed federal law missed barriers affecting Americans&#039; ability to buy homes. Large housing commitments from lenders and a rental platform highlighted financing interest, even as one banking executive said middle-income buyers were priced out. That executive said a middle-income home needed $124K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randyodell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}