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Housing Affordability · Issue 4 of 12

Against a bipartisan plan to lower housing costs

While working families and seniors get priced out of their neighborhoods, Byron Donalds voted against a bipartisan bill to lower the cost of housing and gave tax breaks to the same Wall Street developers buying up homes and jacking up rents.

NOHis vote on the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act

Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, edited

The facts

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  1. Byron Donalds voted against the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which received bipartisan support. 1

  2. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act contains dozens of provisions designed to speed up housing production and lower costs. 2

  3. Donalds voted for the OBBBA, which made permanent tax breaks for investors for job creation in rural parts of the country, including data center development. 3

Tell Byron Donalds: Floridians need homes they can afford.

Sources

Every claim on this page, with links to the votes, filings and reporting behind it.

  1. Congress.gov, H.R. 6644, 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, 119th Congress, 2025
  2. The Pew Charitable Trusts, New federal housing act opens doors for states and cities, July 31, 2026
  3. Brookings Institution, How did the One Big Beautiful Bill Act change opportunity zones?, July 8, 2025