Senate Republicans are hard at work on a federal housing bill targeting the all-important buzzword of the 2026 midterm elections: affordability.

President Donald Trump will likely try to square differences between Senate and House Republicans at this week’s GOP Members’ Issues Conference in Florida, including a provision to force large single-family home investors to sell their rental units within seven years. It’s a massive market intrusion by the federal government, being framed by lawmakers such as Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) as a defense of “the American dream of homeownership.”