The Letter That Started Moving
In the autumn of 2024, twenty-eight housing groups—representing builders, realtors, affordable housing advocates, and local government officials—dispatched an unusual letter to the United States Senate . The ask was simple: bring the ROAD to Housing Act to the floor for a vote. What made the letter remarkable was not its content but its signatories. In an industry fractured along partisan, geographic, and economic lines, this coalition represented something approaching consensus. The housing crisis had grown so acute, the market so dysfunctional, that even natural adversaries agreed something needed to be done.