| Carrie Buck is a bit of an outlier.
New reporting is exposing how Buck repeatedly voted against bipartisan bills to lower housing costs in Nevada. Buck even opposed a landmark, bipartisan housing reform bill that helped NV-01 families directly.
Now, the famously ineffective Buck (she was the ONLY Senate Republican not to pass any sponsored bills during the 2021, 2023, or 2025 sessions) wants a promotion and is running on making housing more affordable. She’s even raged against “elites scoop[ing] up homes” – despite the fact that she herself is a multi-millionaire landlord.
Buck is challenging Dina Titus, who’s been named one of the most effective lawmakers in Congress. Titus is fighting to lower housing costs in Southern Nevada.
DCCC Spokesperson Lindsay Reilly:
“Carrie Buck is a total fraud who’s never actually passed a bill into law. Rather than get literally anything done for Nevadans, she’s spending her time opposing bipartisan bills to lower housing costs – all while raking in tens of thousands of dollars as a landlord.”
Read the reporting for yourself…
Nevada Current: Republican congressional candidate opposed bipartisan-backed housing bills, including Lombardo’s
- In her campaign for Nevada’s 1st Congressional District, Republican Carrie Buck suggests addressing housing issues would be a top priority, and she has railed against “elites” controlling the housing market.
- But a look at her tenure so far in the Nevada State Senate shows a pattern of voting against bipartisan housing legislation, including an effort championed by Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo that directly supports a new housing subdivision in the very congressional district Buck hopes to represent.
- Buck was one of six Republicans in the Nevada State Senate to vote against Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s housing bill, Assembly Bill 540, last year. The bill dedicated $133 million to supporting single and multifamily housing for middle-income families.
- The first development to receive this consumer-level assistance was in Congressional District 1 — Paradise Trails, a new 29-house subdivision in central Las Vegas.
- Buck also voted against a 2025 bill to allow local municipalities to create “tax increment areas,” which leverage future property tax growth to back bonds for affordable housing and transportation projects without raising taxes. That legislation, Senate Bill 28, passed without much attention, received bipartisan support, and was signed by Lombardo.
- Buck was one of four Republican senators to vote against the bill, and she was, across both chambers, the only legislator representing part of the Las Vegas Valley to oppose the legislation, which the City of Las Vegas pushed for.
- Buck also voted multiple times against legislation designed to restrict the number of single-family homes corporations can purchase. The legislation, sponsored by state Sen. Dina Neal (D-North Las Vegas), was introduced during the 2023 and 2025 regular legislative sessions, as well as during the 2025 special session.
- Buck’s vote is notable because on the campaign trail she has emphasized wanting to help people access home ownership.
- “Nevada families are getting screwed,” she opined in one post. “Elites scoop up homes while young couples can’t even afford a starter.”
- Buck and her husband are landlords themselves. According to her state and federal campaign finance disclosures, they own and rent out properties in Las Vegas and Carson City.
- [Buck] has served in three regular legislative sessions. None of the dozens of bills she has been the primary sponsor of in that time have made it to the governor’s desk.
- According to an analysis by The Nevada Independent, all 20 bills Buck sponsored in the 2025 session failed to meet the first major legislative deadline, which happens just after the halfway point of each 120-day session.
- It is a stark contrast from Titus, who prior to being elected to federal office in 2008 spent two decades in the Nevada State Legislature. Titus quickly became a caucus leader and built a brand as a fiery legislator.
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