Federal Roofing Policy Update: Housing Legislation, Tariffs & Industry Advocacy | June 2026

Tile Roofing Industry Alliance Lobbyist, Craig Brightup, has provided the latest government relations update and activities on the following from June 2026:

21st Century ROAD to Housing Act
The U.S. Senate on Monday passed an amended version of housing legislation focused on expanding housing supply and lowering costs with an 85-5 vote. The 21st Century Renewed Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act, is a bipartisan/bicameral compromise with more than 45 provisions.  These include waiving environmental reviews for some housing projects, restricting private equity from owning more than 350 single-family homes, and allowing community banks to boost local lending for home building.  The bill should be passed by the House on Wednesday and then sent to the President to be signed into law.
 
More Homes on the Market Act
The More Homes on the Market Act, H.R. 1340/S. 3332, would double capital gains exemptions for selling a primary residence from the $250,000 for single filers and $500,000 for joint filers set in 1997.  The bill would raise the exemptions to $500,000 and $1,000,000 respectively and also index them for inflation moving forward.   The bill continues to add bipartisan cosponsors and now has 126 in the House and 16 in the Senate.
 
Tariffs
Customs and Border Protection’s IEEPA tariff refunds could be slowing while the Administration challenges the breadth of the refunds.  Also, stopgap 10% tariffs under Sec. 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 are now in question due to the Court of International Trade’s May ruling that Sec. 122 wasn’t meant to address trade deficits.  Regardless, the Sec. 122 tariffs expire July 24, so the U.S. Trade Representative is hustling to finalize Sec. 301 tariffs on 60 economies for their failure to ban “goods produced with forced labor” because they have an “artificial cost advantage.”   On June 2, USTR proposed 10% tariffs for 16 of the 60 economies that have lax forced labor product import laws including Canada, Ecuador, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, and the EU.  The other 44 countries would be levied 12.5% tariffs for failing to both impose and enforce laws prohibiting forced labor imports.  USTR is taking comments on the proposed “forced labor” tariffs until early July and clearly wants to implement them when the Sec. 122 tariffs expire July 24. 


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