The Affordable Housing Easter Egg in Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Bill

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, Emily Flitter, who reports on economic and social inequality, looks at what Trump’s tax and spending bill means for affordable housing. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is known mainly for what it cuts: taxes, Medicaid coverage and food assistance among other things. But tucked inside the almost-900-page legislative text are a few lines that represent the biggest increase in incentives to build affordable housing in a generation.