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Housing affordability

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Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Ashley Hinson

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.

Ashley Hinson for Iowa

Josh Turek

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.

Josh Turek for Iowa

Thomas Laehn

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.

Thomas Laehn for U.S. Senate
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Evidence timeline

Where statements meet the record.

  1. Occurred Dec 9, 2025

    official action

    Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

    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.

    Ashley Hinson for Iowa Congress.gov Congress.gov
  2. Occurred Apr 10, 2023

    official action

    Matches stated record claim

    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.

    Josh Turek for Iowa Iowa Legislature

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