if you have more burdens on the business of building homes, you have more burdens on the ability to achieve the American Dream, which, for most of us, is home ownership.

I know that when you travel to my family's home town of Salley, South Carolina, that you see perhaps more manufactured homes or mobile homes or modular homes.

As a guy who used to run a county and chairman of Charlestown County government, many of the issues that we are grappling with here in Washington really are local issues.

I think it is by the year 2040 or so one out of five Americans will be over the age of 65.

For decades, Washington's response to housing challenges has simply been more spending.

This Administration likes to talk about the need for more affordable housing, but as we all know, talk is cheap and leads to empty promises.

Federal housing policy has long been disconnected from economic reality.

I think it is by the year 2040 or so one out of five Americans will be over the age of 65.

This Administration likes to talk about the need for more affordable housing, but as we all know, talk is cheap and leads to empty promises.

Sometimes common ground typically leads to common sense, and we have found some common ground between the two of us.

if you have more burdens on the business of building homes, you have more burdens on the ability to achieve the American Dream, which, for most of us, is home ownership.

I know that when you travel to my family's home town of Salley, South Carolina, that you see perhaps more manufactured homes or mobile homes or modular homes.

Today is a day when we celebrate bipartisanship.

The theory that modular or manufactured homes are of less quality and not as safe has consistently proven not true.

As a guy who used to run a county and chairman of Charlestown County government, many of the issues that we are grappling with here in Washington really are local issues.

I want to reflect a little bit the importance of good Government policy versus bad Government policy.

Despite the overwhelming evidence and wide consensus that rent control or rent stabilization depresses supply...

Threatening builders and housing providers with the possibility of rent control will only further increase the gap in housing supply.