Congressional leaders in the House and Senate have reached a final agreement on the bicameral 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act after months of both chambers attempting to advance various versions of the bill. we wanted to highlight that the Senate passed the amended version of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act with an 87-8 vote yesterday evening. The bill will now be considered by the House for a final vote.

A few items in this bill are relevant to special districts widely. The bill is designed to increase housing supply by cutting regulatory barriers and speeding development timelines which hopefully means faster growth and therefore increased demand on core special district services (water, wastewater, fire, transit, flood control, etc.). The NEPA streamlining will affect special district or special district-adjacent projects with faster permitting but could also mean less time for comment/review, which is the classic push and pull of NEPA reform.

Below is the latest press release, including the updated bill text. 

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