NPR News: 06-24-2026 9AM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Congress has passed the largest housing affordability bill in decades. NPR's Steven Bisaha reports the legislation won bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

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The reason for all that support, according to Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware, is that housing affordability is a problem everywhere.

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Whether you live on a farm, whether you live in a city, whether you are in the south of this country or, or across the country, families are feeling the impacts a- as it pertains to affordable housing.

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This bill makes a hodgepodge of changes, many meant to streamline federal housing regulations and encourage easing of local zoning and permitting hurdles. It also bans large investors from buying up more than three hundred fifty single-family homes. The bill now goes to President Trump for his signature. Steven Bisaha, NPR News.

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A federal appeals court has cleared the way for the White House to expand a fast-track deportation process for people who are in the US illegally. NPR's Vanessa Romo reports it's a major win for the Trump administration.

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For more than a decade, expedited removal had only been used in cases where migrants were detained within a hundred miles of the southern border, or if they'd been in the country for less than two years. In all other cases, unauthorized migrants were granted the same due process rights that apply to anyone in the country, regardless of citizenship