The White House on Friday reiterated Bush's frequent call for Congress to send him a housing bill.
Later this week, the House plans to tweak a housing bill passed by the Senate last Friday.
Since then, Republicans and Democrats have quickly put aside their differences in order to produce a housing bill.
The housing bill marks a big step away from the financial deregulation that has characterised the past 20-odd years.
The Senate is expected to clear a sweeping housing bill Saturday and send it to the president for his signature.
President Bush says he wants Congress to send him a housing bill that he can sign as quickly as possible.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the new GSE regulator created by the housing bill, has placed new CEOs in charge of both firms.
The minister insisted the housing bill would also tackle homelessness, as well as improving standards and tenants' rights in the private rented sector.
The Housing Bill will "modernise the buying and selling of houses", strengthening the rights of private sector tenants and assisting councils in dealing with areas in decline.
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Legislators plan to bundle the administration's proposal with a housing bill now moving through Congress--but the fine details of this proposal still remain largely unknown.
So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to sign the housing bill, and then I'll talk a little bit about the anti-fraud bill.
The housing bill expected to be passed by the Senate Friday evening is designed to provide better regulatory oversight for embattled mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Two months after the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, the Senate approved a transport and housing bill that included money for a stadium in Montana and a museum in Las Vegas.
Ministers want to tackle under-occupancy and reduce the housing benefit bill by stopping residents of council or housing association property from having an extra bedroom.
Next on the list is the Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Bill, introduced by another Conservative, Richard Harrington.
He said none of the changes were "easy" but everyone accepted that the housing benefit bill had to be tackled.
Schumer also proposed resurrecting judicial mortgage modifications, an idea that failed to survive the housing rescue bill passed earlier this summer.
The Landlord and Tenants (Private Housing) Bill 2013 aims to achieve a fair and reasonable balance between the rights of landlords and tenants.
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He said there were nearly a million "spare" bedrooms being paid for by housing benefit and the changes the government was implementing would help cut the cost of the housing benefit bill.
The plan could also fall under the umbrella of the Hope for Homeowners program authorized by the housing rescue bill passed in July and the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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It found that 2.3 million households had defaulted on a loan, bill or housing payment.
Then there's a Ten Minute Rule Bill on housing market reform.
It has been pushing up the government's bill for housing benefit, the rent it pays on behalf of people who are out of work or on low pay.
There are also signs that the rent rises caused by the shift in ownership are pushing up the bill for housing benefit, the rent subsidy paid to poor people.
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We did not take on the broad question of reform of the GSEs or the broader housing finance market in this bill.
On Wednesday, the House Financial Services Committee begins two days of hearings with regulators and housing authorities to discuss a bill introduced by Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass.
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