Constitutional Opinion No. 2026-0671
Case Information
- Content Scored
- H.R. 6644 (119th) — Housing for the 21st Century Act (zoning-reform guidance, NEPA streamlining, housing grants)
- Source
- U.S. Congress (govinfo.gov)
- Author
- Reps. Hill (AR), Waters, Flood, Cleaver
- Publication Date
- 2025-12-11
- Content Type
- Legislation
- Opinion Issued
- 2026-07-19
- AFCS Version
- 1.0
Holding
H.R. 6644 is a comprehensive housing-supply bill whose dominant thrust (scored under Rule 21) is deregulatory and supply-side: it directs HUD to publish guidance encouraging local zoning liberalization (reducing parking minimums, allowing duplexes/triplexes by right, reducing lot sizes, ministerial review), streamlines/exempts a wide range of housing activities from NEPA, abolishes the Regulatory Barriers Clearinghouse, and modernizes manufactured-housing standards toward parity. That substance aligns with Property and Enterprise (Article IX, scored 64). But it delivers this partly through new federal machinery — planning/implementation/home-building grants, increased rural loan limits, advisory bodies, databases, reporting mandates — which grows federal spending (Article X, 45) and HUD's administrative footprint (Article XII, 48, a cross-current). As operative statutory text it takes the v1.2 Legal/Normative Text Weighting (85/15). Tier 1 = 53; result 58 — upper Mixed, better-aligned than the pure-entitlement HR 4818 (45) on the strength of its deregulatory core. Titles IV-V were truncated in the source; the Court scored the dominant available content and noted the limitation. No new tax, so no Automatic Fail. (Default 70/30 would have returned 63.)
It is the judgment of this Court that Opinion No. 2026-0671 is hereby entered into the record, in accordance with the America First Constitutional Standard. The score stands. The reasoning is published. The record is public.