Aims to safeguard renters and home buyers from price gouging during housing crises and fights market manipulation.
This bill would aim to safeguard renters and home buyers. It would make it unlawful to charge excessively high prices for rentals and single-family homes during a declared affordable housing crisis. It would also create new federal units and programs to monitor, investigate, and report on housing market practices, including price gouging, market manipulation, and unfair screening practices.
Today, no federal laws stop landlords or sellers from charging extremely high prices during a housing crisis. Also, there are no dedicated federal units to continuously monitor housing market manipulation. If this bill becomes law, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development would be able to declare an affordable housing crisis, making such price gouging unlawful. New federal units and joint agency programs would also be established. These would monitor, investigate, and report on housing market practices, including price gouging, market manipulation, and unfair screening practices.
HR 3214 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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