Tim Scott

I've been calling for this hearing since February 14th, when this Committee held an oversight hearing on the FTX crypto crash.

Federal housing policy has long been disconnected from economic reality.

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.

Today is a day when we celebrate bipartisanship.

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.

The prices of housing per square foot now has never been higher. If you have to have a minimum square footage to build a house, you are talking to first-time home buyers, and you are just saying, please do not bother thinking about being a…

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.

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

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.

Federal housing policy has long been disconnected from economic reality.

Today is a day when we celebrate bipartisanship.

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.

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.

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

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.

The prices of housing per square foot now has never been higher. If you have to have a minimum square footage to build a house, you are talking to first-time home buyers, and you are just saying, please do not bother thinking about being a…

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.

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

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.

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.