Representatives French Hill and Mike Flood mark passage of bipartisan housing bill in Arkansas

Representative French Hill visited Maumelle, Arkansas, on Saturday to mark the enactment of a bipartisan housing bill that supporters say aims to make housing more affordable.

The visit, which Hill made alongside Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska, celebrated a measure described in the report as bipartisan and “landmark” for increasing housing supply and easing barriers for first-time buyers. The transcript did not specify the bill’s formal title.

According to the report, supporters highlighted that the average age of a first-time homebuyer has risen to about 40, compared with roughly 33 five years earlier, a statistic cited to underscore the urgency for policy change. The bill, the report said, would remove certain regulations to encourage more home development, limit institutional investors from buying single-family houses and include provisions to support veteran housing opportunities.

The report also noted a delayed presidential action on the bill. It said President Trump indicated Friday night that he would not sign the measure as a protest over the Senate’s handling of a separate, election-related measure called the Save America Act. The report added that the president did not veto the housing bill; after 10 days with no presidential action the measure became law at 12:01 a.m. Eastern on Saturday.

The Maumelle appearance was described in the report as a celebration of that legal enactment; the report did not record direct remarks from Hill or Flood in the provided transcript excerpt. No formal vote tallies or the bill’s final text were provided in the transcript.

What happens next was not specified in the report. The transcript supplied no statement from the White House or the members’ offices in this excerpt, and it did not include the bill’s formal name or the precise regulatory changes that will take effect.