Elizabeth Warren’s Amazingly Progressive Housing Bill

Yesterday on Capitol Hill, as Democrats and Republicans continued bitterly wrangling over the terms for funding the Department of Homeland Security, and the parties divided over Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation on the Iran war, the Senate harmoniously passed the most expansive housing bill in 36 years. The bipartisan vote was 89-to-10.

The 303-page legislation creates new programs and federal money for housing construction, promotes manufactured housing, while streamlining zoning...