Calling it an effort to “save the ‘American dream,’” a bipartisan cohort of House members has teamed up to address housing affordability issues across the country.

They are starting with identifying the factors that are impeding home ownership.

The newly introduced bill would create an interagency task force to address mortgage, housing construction and insurance costs, as well as down payment assistance, disaster resilience and federal housing finance programs. It would involve the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as the federal Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, and Treasury departments and the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The idea, said Rep. Lou Correa , a Santa Ana Democrat and one of the bill’s authors, is to equip lawmakers with more information so t

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