Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Hinson's campaign backs tax-free first-home savings and barring big investors from buying Iowa homes. Turek's campaign says he sponsored Iowa bills to cut homebuyer taxes and limit private-equity home buying. Laehn's campaign lists no housing-cost position on the pages checked. Hinson cosponsored a first-home savings bill still in committee; Turek filed a 2025 private-equity bill that never left committee and was one of 32 sponsors of a 2023 homebuyer tax bill sent to committee.
Campaign positions
Her campaign says she supports letting first-time homebuyers save tax-free for a down payment through the First Home Savings Opportunity Act, and ensuring large institutional investors cannot buy up single-family homes in Iowa neighborhoods.
His campaign says he sponsored Iowa legislation to cut taxes for first-time homebuyers and to limit private-equity purchases of Iowa homes, and that in the Senate he would bar Wall Street private-equity firms from buying single-family homes and farmland and simplify permitting for new affordable housing.
His reviewed campaign issues page addresses eminent domain and the taking of private property for commercial projects but states no position on the cost or supply of housing.
Evidence timeline
official action
She cosponsored the bill in December 2025; it sits in the Ways and Means Committee with no further action.
Her campaign says it wants to let first-time homebuyers save tax-free for a down payment through the First Home Savings Opportunity Act. She cosponsored H.R. 6542, the First Home Savings Opportunity Act of 2025, on December 9, 2025. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means and has had no further action. She also cosponsored H.R. 3526, the Uplifting First-Time Homebuyers Act of 2025 (July 10, 2025), likewise in committee. Limit: Cosponsorship is not passage; neither bill has received a committee or floor vote. The institutional-investor half of the plank has no matching bill among her 119th Congress sponsorships or cosponsorships found in this check.
official action
He filed a 2025 bill letting cities ban home purchases by private equity funds; it never left committee, and his 2023-2024 bills include none on this.
In the October 7 debate, Turek said he agrees with President Trump that private equity should get out of housing, something he said he has fought for his whole time in the Iowa Legislature. He filed House File 745 alone on March 5, 2025. It would let cities ban purchases of single-family homes by companies using private equity, hedge or real estate funds from July 2025 through June 2030. It was sent to the Local Government Committee and the bill history lists nothing after that. The Legislature's list of the bills he sponsored in 2023 and 2024 has none on private equity or home purchases. Limit: "All of my time" goes beyond the record: the one bill we found was filed in 2025, and his 2023-2024 bills, checked by title, include none on this. The bill never left committee.
official action
His campaign says he sponsored Iowa legislation to cut taxes for first-time homebuyers. The Iowa Legislature lists Turek among the sponsors of H.F. 697, a bill to create a housing tax credit program and increase first-time-homebuyer tax incentives. Limit: Sponsorship is not enactment. Turek is one of 32 listed sponsors, not the first-listed sponsor, and the official history shows the bill was introduced and referred to the State Government Committee in April 2023.
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Ashley Hinson for Iowa · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.
candidate statement
For: Ashley Hinson: campaign position; Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction
Josh Turek for Iowa · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.
candidate statement
For: Josh Turek: campaign position; Matches stated record claim
Thomas Laehn for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.
candidate statement
For: Thomas Laehn: campaign position
Congress.gov · Published Dec 9, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026
Cosponsor list shows Hinson joined 2025-12-09; latest action: referred to Ways and Means.
official legislative record
For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Published Jul 10, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026
Cosponsor list; referred to Ways and Means.
official legislative record
For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction
Iowa PBS · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
19:19 to 19:28. The quoted words read the same in YouTube's captions and in Iowa PBS's own transcript.
candidate statement
For: Josh Turek: Matches stated direction
Iowa PBS · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
The host's own transcript of the October 7 debate, the second copy for quoted words.
candidate statement
For: Josh Turek: Matches stated direction
Iowa Legislature · Published Mar 5, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
By Turek; introduced and referred to Local Government March 5, 2025; no later action listed.
official legislative record
For: Josh Turek: Matches stated direction
Iowa Legislature · Published Mar 5, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Lets cities bar purchases of single-family homes by companies using private equity, hedge or real estate funds, July 2025 through June 2030.
official legislative record
For: Josh Turek: Matches stated direction
Iowa Legislature · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Bills he sponsored or cosponsored in the 90th General Assembly; no title concerns private equity or purchases of single-family homes.
official legislative record
For: Josh Turek: Matches stated direction
Iowa Legislature · Published Apr 10, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 7, 2026
Official sponsor, description, and action history for H.F. 697.
official legislative record
For: Matches stated record claim