Washington, D.C. – The National League of Cities (NLC) urges broad bipartisan support for the House “21st Century Road to Housing Act,” which maintains and improves housing supply provisions important to cities, towns and villages.
NLC President Kevin Kramer, Councilmember, Louisville, Ky., issued the following statement:
“Local leaders across the country are already focused on efforts to improve housing attainability in their communities, such as undertaking direct and renewable investments in housing development through new municipal housing funds, to pioneering new approaches and improvements in government operations and services for the purpose of increasing housing supply. The time is now for Congress to pass a major bipartisan housing package that embraces and capitalizes on the local leadership cities nationwide are embracing to confront the housing affordability crisis.
“The House ‘21st Century Road to Housing Act’ maintains important local government provisions that will improve existing programs like Community Development Block Grants and the HOME Investment Partnership Program, targets new resources to expedite uptake and adoption of administrative and service improvements and reduces federal regulatory obstacles that unintentionally add to the cost of housing. These provisions, alongside important private-sector improvements to expand access to private capital, will foster more and better public-private partnerships in communities across the country to preserve existing housing, increase new housing and reduce the cost to rent or buy a home.”
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