SEC TURNER: Homeownership is making a comeback thanks to Trump, but there’s more to come

Trump floats national emergency on housing affordability as GOP urged to act Citizens Alliance CEO Cliff Maloney joins 'Saturday in America' to react to President Donald Trump weighing a national housing emergency and Charlie Kirk’s call to speed up homebuilding amid the crisis. In his recent address to the American people, President Donald Trump said: "Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess. And I’m fixing it." When it comes to the border, Trump inherited a catastrophe. Border security became a joke under the Biden administration, which allowed millions of illegal aliens to rush into our country. This travesty did not only make a mockery of our laws, it also increased demand for affordable housing, which in turn increased housing costs for American families. A recent Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report revealed that foreign-born migrants accounted for two-thirds of the growth in rental demand across the country. Some places, such as California and New York, saw a 100% growth in migrant-fueled rental demand. Outrageously, some illegals even received HUD’s housing help , siphoning taxpayer dollars away from American citizens. Under Trump’s leadership, HUD is ending this insanity. We cut off illegals from receiving FHA-insured mortgages and announced a hotline to report illegal residents in HUD housing, along with other criminals, because public housing must be safe housing. We are taking decisive action to ensure HUD-funded programs and resources are not benefiting ineligible individuals or illegals. HOUSING COSTS ARE CRUSHING FAMILIES - HERE’S THE WAY OUT HUD is moving ahead to help homeowners and get rid of Biden era regulations. (iStock) The mess that Trump is fixing goes beyond immigration, and over the past year, HUD has scored win after win to restore sanity and good sense to housing policy. We are putting the American Dream of homeownership back within the grasp of the American people by promoting deregulation, self-sufficiency, and common sense. We started by scrapping the Biden-era Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule. The Biden administration’s negligence in enforcing border security was only matched by its zeal in imposing burdensome regulations on innocent Americans, and the AFFH rule burdened America’s suburbs with red tape. Ending this regulation was a critical step in restoring freedom to local communities. You cannot regulate your way to prosperity. But you can innovate. HUD CHIEF BLAMES 'UNCHECKED ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION' PRICING-OUT FAMILIES AMID NEW HOUSING REPORT That is one of America’s core strengths, along with market-based solutions and private sector ingenuity. At Trump’s direction, we are recalibrating HUD away from overregulation and toward supporting these key tenets of our economy. That is why I am a longtime champion of Opportunity Zones. This landmark policy has lifted more than 1 million Americans out of poverty. And Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill , which is the largest working family tax cut in modern history, enhances Opportunity Zones permanently. Opportunity Zones are now expected to support over $100 billion of investment, create more than 1 million new jobs, and facilitate construction of hundreds of thousands of...

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