{ "version": "luci-features-0.1", "retrieved": "2026-11-10", "sources": { "homes": { "title": "Smith and Ocasio-Cortez introduce the Homes Act", "publisher": "Senator Tina Smith", "date": "2024-09-19", "url": "https://www.smith.senate.gov/u-s-senator-tina-smith-and-congresswoman-ocasio-cortez-introduce-homes-act-to-tackle-americas-housing-crisis/" }, "road": { "title": "Scott and Warren announce the ROAD to Housing package", "publisher": "Senate Banking Committee", "date": "2025-07-24", "url": "https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/majority/scott-warren-announce-markup-of-landmark-bipartisan-housing-legislation-from-banking-committee-members" }, "investors": { "title": "Hawley and Merkley propose restrictions on institutional homebuyers", "publisher": "Senator Josh Hawley", "date": "2026-02-26", "url": "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-merkley-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-ban-wall-street-from-buying-single-family-homes/" }, "honest": { "title": "Peters, Hawley, Merkley and Ossoff advance the HONEST Act", "publisher": "Senator Jeff Merkley", "date": "2025-07-30", "url": "https://www.merkley.senate.gov/committee-advances-peters-hawley-merkley-and-ossoff-bipartisan-legislation-to-ban-member-stock-trading/" }, "road_march": { "title": "Scott and Warren release an expanded housing package", "publisher": "Senate Banking Committee", "date": "2026-03-02", "url": "https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/scott-warren-release-21st-century-road-to-housing-act-legislative-package-to-boost-housing-supply-and-bring-down-costs" }, "road_june": { "title": "Scott, Warren, Hill and Waters release revised housing text", "publisher": "Senate Banking Committee", "date": "2026-06-16", "url": "https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/majority/scott-warren-hill-waters-release-updated-bill-text-on-senate-consideration-of-the-21st-century-road-to-housing-act" }, "pete_transit": { "title": "Buttigieg addresses the Thriving Communities Symposium", "publisher": "US Department of Transportation", "date": "2024-10-11", "url": "https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/investing-america-secretary-buttigieg-highlights-new-infrastructure-law-program" } }, "features": { "public_development": "Public housing development", "public_finance": "Public financing", "permanent_affordability": "Long-term affordability", "shared_equity": "Shared-equity ownership", "tenant_purchase": "Tenant purchase options", "regulatory_reform": "Fewer development barriers", "construction_methods": "More construction options", "program_oversight": "Program oversight", "investor_purchase_ban": "Limits on institutional purchases", "tax_divestment": "Tax incentives to divest homes", "trading_ban": "A ban on covered-asset trading", "divestment": "Divestment of covered assets", "family_coverage": "Spouse and dependent coverage", "disclosure_penalties": "Stronger disclosure penalties", "housing_security": "Housing as a foundation for stability", "market_gap": "The private market leaves needs unmet", "housing_shortage": "A shortage of homes", "affordable_access": "Access to affordable housing", "family_costs": "Pressure on household budgets", "investor_competition": "Competition from large investors", "family_ownership": "Homeownership for families", "conflict_prevention": "Preventing financial conflicts", "public_trust": "Trust in public service", "privileged_information": "Access to privileged information", "constituent_service": "Serving constituents", "transit_housing": "Housing near transit", "technical_assistance": "Hands-on support for local projects", "local_capacity": "Local capacity to access funding" }, "people": [ { "id": "MN-Class-II", "shortName": "Tina Smith", "bundles": { "housing": { "sources": [ "homes" ], "mechanisms": [ "public_development", "public_finance", "permanent_affordability", "shared_equity", "tenant_purchase" ], "reasons": [ "housing_security", "market_gap" ], "summary": "Create a public housing developer and financing authority, with lasting affordability and resident ownership options.", "reasoning": "Smith connects an affordable home to the ability to work, learn and stay healthy.", "reading": "This treats housing as essential infrastructure: public capacity fills needs that the market leaves unmet." } } }, { "id": "NY14", "shortName": "Ocasio-Cortez", "bundles": { "housing": { "sources": [ "homes" ], "mechanisms": [ "public_development", "public_finance", "permanent_affordability", "shared_equity", "tenant_purchase" ], "reasons": [ "housing_security", "market_gap" ], "summary": "Fund a public housing option with affordability requirements and opportunities for residents to buy their homes.", "reasoning": "Ocasio-Cortez contrasts household insecurity with the priority given to investor profit.", "reading": "Her framing asks who housing serves. The proposal adds a public alternative rather than relying only on private supply." } } }, { "id": "SC-Class-III", "shortName": "Tim Scott", "bundles": { "housing": { "sources": [ "road", "road_march", "road_june" ], "mechanisms": [ "regulatory_reform", "construction_methods", "program_oversight", "investor_purchase_ban" ], "reasons": [ "housing_shortage", "affordable_access", "family_ownership" ], "summary": "Back the expanded housing package, retaining supply reforms and adding restrictions on institutional homebuyers.", "reasoning": "Scott emphasizes fewer building barriers, affordability and the opportunity for families to own a home.", "reading": "His emphasis remains supply and opportunity. Support for a broader package does not mean every new provision became the center of his message." } } }, { "id": "MA-Class-I", "shortName": "Elizabeth Warren", "bundles": { "housing": { "sources": [ "road", "road_march", "road_june" ], "mechanisms": [ "regulatory_reform", "construction_methods", "program_oversight", "investor_purchase_ban" ], "reasons": [ "housing_shortage", "affordable_access", "family_costs", "family_ownership", "investor_competition" ], "summary": "Back a housing package combining supply reforms with restrictions on large institutional homebuyers.", "reasoning": "Warren connects housing supply and household costs with families competing against corporate buyers.", "reading": "The expanded package adds a buyer-side intervention to the supply agenda. This is a broader policy mix in our collection, not proof of a personal reversal." } } }, { "id": "MO-Class-I", "shortName": "Josh Hawley", "bundles": { "housing": { "sources": [ "investors" ], "mechanisms": [ "investor_purchase_ban", "tax_divestment" ], "reasons": [ "investor_competition", "family_ownership" ], "summary": "Restrict large institutional home purchases and use tax changes to encourage divestment of existing holdings.", "reasoning": "Hawley argues that families should not have to bid against large investment firms.", "reading": "This targets who competes for existing homes, a different mechanism from building more homes." }, "stocks": { "sources": [ "honest" ], "mechanisms": [ "trading_ban", "divestment", "family_coverage", "disclosure_penalties" ], "reasons": [ "privileged_information", "public_trust", "constituent_service" ], "summary": "Back the HONEST Act's trading restrictions, divestment requirements and family coverage.", "reasoning": "Hawley emphasizes privileged information and the duty to serve constituents.", "reading": "The proposed response is structural: remove the financial opportunity rather than rely only on disclosure." } } }, { "id": "OR-Class-II", "shortName": "Jeff Merkley", "bundles": { "housing": { "sources": [ "homes", "investors" ], "mechanisms": [ "public_development", "public_finance", "permanent_affordability", "shared_equity", "tenant_purchase", "investor_purchase_ban", "tax_divestment" ], "reasons": [ "housing_security", "market_gap", "investor_competition", "family_ownership" ], "summary": "Support both a public housing option and limits on institutional buying, including tax-driven divestment.", "reasoning": "Merkley connects private-market gaps and investor competition to housing insecurity.", "reading": "He spans two approaches in this sample. One cluster cannot fully describe his housing proposals." }, "stocks": { "sources": [ "honest" ], "mechanisms": [ "trading_ban", "divestment", "family_coverage", "disclosure_penalties" ], "reasons": [ "conflict_prevention", "constituent_service" ], "summary": "Back the HONEST Act's restrictions on trading and ownership of covered investments.", "reasoning": "Merkley warns that personal holdings can affect legislative decisions.", "reading": "The concern is the incentive itself, not only whether a particular trade can be shown to exploit inside information." } } }, { "id": "MI-Class-II", "shortName": "Gary Peters", "bundles": { "stocks": { "sources": [ "honest" ], "mechanisms": [ "trading_ban", "divestment", "family_coverage", "disclosure_penalties" ], "reasons": [ "public_trust", "conflict_prevention", "constituent_service" ], "summary": "Back restrictions on covered-asset trading and divestment for elected officials and their families.", "reasoning": "Peters centers public confidence that officials serve constituents rather than their own finances.", "reading": "His emphasis is institutional trust; the mechanism is the same shared bill." } } }, { "id": "GA-Class-II", "shortName": "Jon Ossoff", "bundles": { "stocks": { "sources": [ "honest" ], "mechanisms": [ "trading_ban", "divestment", "family_coverage", "disclosure_penalties" ], "reasons": [ "privileged_information", "conflict_prevention" ], "summary": "Back the HONEST Act and its restrictions on covered trading and asset ownership.", "reasoning": "Ossoff points to the combination of legislating and access to confidential information.", "reading": "He emphasizes a conflict built into the role, supporting a rule that operates before individual misconduct must be proved." } } }, { "id": "voice-pete", "shortName": "Pete Buttigieg", "bundles": { "housing": { "sources": [ "pete_transit" ], "mechanisms": [ "public_finance", "transit_housing", "technical_assistance" ], "reasons": [ "affordable_access", "local_capacity" ], "summary": "Use federal funding and technical assistance to help communities build affordable housing near transit.", "reasoning": "Buttigieg argues that communities with limited staff and resources need help accessing federal support.", "reading": "The focus is delivery: connect housing to transport, then help local communities turn plans into funded projects." } } } ], "questions": [ { "id": "housing", "chip": "Lower housing costs?", "title": "How do we make housing affordable?", "topic": "housing", "takeaway": "Housing policy works on several fronts: public development, easier construction, limits on large buyers, and housing near transit. The added Scott\u2013Warren releases connect supply reform with buyer restrictions.", "limit": "Selected proposals from 2024\u201326, not complete or necessarily latest positions." }, { "id": "ownership", "chip": "Who gets to own homes?", "title": "Who should have a path to owning a home?", "topic": "housing", "mechanismFilter": [ "shared_equity", "tenant_purchase", "investor_purchase_ban", "tax_divestment" ], "reasonFilter": [ "housing_security", "investor_competition", "family_ownership" ], "takeaway": "The expanded evidence brings Scott and Warren into the ownership comparison through restrictions on institutional buyers. Smith and Ocasio-Cortez emphasize resident ownership options; Merkley spans both approaches.", "limit": "Movement reflects newly collected evidence. It does not establish when someone first held a position or whether their view changed." }, { "id": "stocks", "chip": "Lawmakers trading stocks?", "title": "How should lawmakers' investments be restricted?", "topic": "stocks", "takeaway": "Here the selected voices converge on the same bill. Their rationales differ\u2014conflicts, privileged information and trust\u2014but a graph should not manufacture disagreement where this sample documents agreement.", "limit": "One joint statement from July 30, 2025. Not four independent sources or a current bill-status report." } ], "collectionVersion": "v5", "previousCollection": "history/questions-v4.json" }