{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2025/7/tillis-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-increase-housing-supply-reduce-costs", "Tillis, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Increase Housing Supply, Reduce Costs", "2025-07-24", "2025", "2025-07", "Republican", "Senate", "NC", "Thom Tillis", "T000476", "www.tillis.senate.gov", "tillis", "https://www.tillis.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Tim Scott (R-SC), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Katie Britt (R-AL), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Alex Padilla (D-CA) recently introduced the bipartisan Housing Supply Expansion Act of 2025, legislation that modernizes the federal definition of \u201cmanufactured housing\u201d to include modular or prefabricated homes built without a permanent chassis. By allowing off-chassis manufactured homes, the bill expands consumer access to more efficient and cost-effective designs, providing greater architectural flexibility to better integrate into existing neighborhoods.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m proud to support this commonsense legislation that expands housing options for hardworking families in North Carolina and across the country,\u201d said Senator Tillis. \u201cBy modernizing the definition of manufactured homes, we can encourage innovative and affordable designs and help more Americans achieve the dream of homeownership.\u201d\n\n\u201cManufactured housing plays an important role in helping more Americans access homeownership, but we need to make sure outdated regulations aren\u2019t preventing newer, potentially more innovative models from coming to market,\u201d said Chairman Scott. \u201cThis legislation will remove red tape and lower the costs of building these types of homes, increasing access to affordable housing opportunities for Americans across the country.\u201d\n\n\u201cManufactured homes are some of the most affordable housing solutions on the market, but outdated laws are preventing newer, safer models from becoming widely available,\u201d said Senator Gallego. \u201cOur bipartisan bill makes a simple update to allow for greater design flexibility and bring down the cost of manufactured homes.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe need to build as many homes as we can to address our national shortage, and we can\u2019t let outdated rules needlessly constrain supply,\u201d said Senator Schatz. \u201cOur bill will unlock manufactured homes in both urban and rural areas around the country, making manufactured homes and all housing more accessible and affordable.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe must find new, innovative ways to expand affordable housing venues so more individuals can achieve the American Dream of owning their home,\u201d said Senator Crapo. \u201cIt is time to throw out established norms and cut bureaucratic hurdles that stand in the way of innovative designs to increasing affordable housing.\u201d\n\n\u201cWith this small adjustment, our legislation would help increase the production of affordable housing in California during a historic housing crisis,\u201d said Senator Padilla. \u201cSimply modifying the definition of manufactured houses would cost the government nothing and could unlock greater design flexibility while increasing the desperately needed affordable housing supply.\u201d\n\nFull text of the bill is available HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T14:40:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2025/7/tillis-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-increase-housing-supply-reduce-costs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.208115067332983, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}