NAHB Promotes Key Housing Priorities to Incoming Trump Administration
Over the past several weeks, NAHB has been meeting with members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team to promote our policy agenda. NAHB recently submitted a detailed housing policy paper to the Trump transition team to tackle the housing affordability crisis.
Acting on these housing policy priorities will help remove barriers that hinder the construction of new homes and apartments and allow builders to build more attainable, affordable housing.
The policy recommendations in the document outline practical solutions to key issues affecting the housing industry that are acting as headwinds to increase the nation’s housing supply, including the need to:
- Extend and improve the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act to spur new housing supply;
- Fix material supply chains and lower construction costs;
- Address the labor shortage; and
- Reform the rulemaking process and eliminate excessive regulations.
NAHB looks forward to working with President-elect Trump and the new administration to enact policies that will enable builders to increase the supply of single-family and multifamily for-sale and for-rent housing to bring down rising housing costs and meet the needs of the American people.
NAHB members can access the full document here.
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