89%
of voters say Congress needs to make building affordable housing easier and cut costs — Bipartisan Policy Center poll, April 2026, n=1,000
Eighty-nine percent of voters — across party lines — say Congress needs to act on housing affordability. Seventy-nine percent say housing is one of their single biggest expenses. Meanwhile, 76 House members from the Build America and Real Estate caucuses moved last month to strip or water down the one provision in the Housing for the 21st Century Act that would cap institutional investors at 350 single-family homes. The boardroom is doing what the boardroom does: working the phones while working folks get priced out. Said Dennis Shea, chair of BPC's J. Ronald Terwilliger Center for Housing Policy: "People across the country are feeling the pressure, and they want Congress to respond."