Washington, D.C…Rep. McClintock voted No on Amendments to HR 6644 and issued the following Vote Note: Senate Amendments to HR 6644 – Amplifying Bad Housing Policy: NO. June 23, 2026

The high cost of housing is the product of bad public policy that has imposed expensive mandates on construction, limited the permits that can be issued, restricted the land available for housing, and flooded the market with subsidies that force up prices for all while hiding it for the subsidized. The pressure by adding more than 10 million illegal aliens to the market hasn’t helped either.

This measure adds more folly to this government-created mess. It adds an array of new grant and subsidy programs that expand bureaucracy and inflate prices – all at taxpayer expense. It prohibits commercial enterprises from acquiring homes for rentals, which may provide slight downward pressure on housing prices while proportionally increasing prices for rentals. As the Wall Street Journal opined, “While cutting red tape on some existing grant programs, the bill creates many new programs with regulations that will make building more costly.

The simple truth of the housing crisis is this: there were more housing permits granted in Dallas and Houston last year than in all of California. The median price of a home in Texas is $360,000; in California, $910,000. Reagan was right: government is not the solution to our problems. Government IS the problem.

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