In a second executive order, President Trump directed HUD and the FHFA to consider “eliminating unduly burdensome rules and reforming programs that constrain residential development and impede housing affordability.”

The order calls for the development of best practices for state and local governments to promote housing construction, largely through streamlining permitting processes, curtailing green-energy and other building code requirements, reconsidering restrictions on manufactured housing, and removing limitations on residential housing development beyond urban centers. The order also directs the Treasury and HUD secretaries to align programs with Opportunity Zone tax incentives to expand investment in single-family home construction.

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