Contact Your Senator Today on ROAD to Housing Act
To: All NAHB members
From: Bill Owens, 2026 NAHB Chairman
Date: March 9, 2026
Contact Your Senator Today on ROAD to Housing Act
The Senate is currently considering the ROAD to Housing Act, which contains a number of provisions aimed at increasing housing supply and had previously been supported by NAHB. Unfortunately, a “poison pill” was added to the legislation that NAHB believes would actually lead to a decrease in housing supply by placing government mandates on when new construction must be sold.
Please call your U.S. Senators at (202) 224-3121 today and ask for removal of this harmful provision that would require newly built single-family rental housing be sold within 7 years of construction.
The current version of the ROAD to Housing Act would impose a federal ban on developing and owning certain types of housing on private property. Specifically, Congress wants to ban the ownership of built-to-rent single-family homes by investors and force businesses to liquidate their inventories. This could have a chilling effect across the industry and wider economy:
- Single-family housing starts may drop by nearly 40,000 units per year.
- A forced sale of these homes may flood certain markets with excess inventory, negatively affecting home prices and appraisals.
- Existing tenants may be forced to vacate their homes.
- Congress dictating that businesses sell purpose-built rental homes is a slippery slope to wider federal attempts to limit or steer the housing market.
What Congress is proposing goes far beyond limiting larger investors from purchasing existing owner-occupied homes; this proposal affects the housing market broadly by blocking investors from financing or owning homes that are built for the rental market.
As an industry, we should all be alarmed by the federal government attempting to outlaw any segment of the new construction market.
Call your Senators at (202) 224-3121 and demand they remove this forced sale requirement from Section 901 of the ROAD to Housing Act.