During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump quickly reduces the prices of American families, including making housing more affordable.
“We will open spaces of federal housing lands,” Mr. Trump He said in August. “We urgently need housing for people who cannot afford the costs of what is going on now.”
The Trump administration is now trying to follow this promise. Last month, Federal officials I created a business squad It would determine and launch federal lands that can be used to develop housing.
The advertisement is the first major initiative published by the Trump administration to address the affluent housing crisis in the country. It is an idea that has support from the two parties. Mr. Trump and Kamala Harris, former vice president and democratic candidate for the presidency, have supported the efforts made to build housing at reasonable prices on certain federal lands.
Housing and researchers developers say that the idea of providing more federal lands to develop housing has some promise to Western states such as Nevada and California, where there are the largest part of federal lands. But the initiative will only do little to increase housing supplies in other parts of the country, as the population also struggles with the high costs of shelter, such as New York and Miami.
There are other challenges that are also present before building any housing. Most federal government lands lack the water and sanitation infrastructure needed to support residential communities. Environmental groups also expressed concern about the administration’s intention to sell public lands because of their potential impact on wildlife habitats.
As part of the effort, the Ministry of Interior will GPS It can support homes and aims to reduce the regulatory barriers involved in transporting or renting lands to local governments or public housing authorities. The Housing and Urban Development Department will also “determine the needs of the most urgent housing” and ensure that the projects “are in line with the ability to withstand costs.”
John Rabi, Acting Director of the Land Administration Office, said that federal officials have estimated that 400,000 acres of federal lands could be provided to develop housing. He said that the estimate, which will continue to improve, was identified after officials on Earth looked at 10 miles from cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.
Mr. Rabi said that this effort may be more influential in states such as California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoungon, Oregon, Idahu and Colorado. The officials said that the lands vary widely and range from deserts and herbal lands to mountains and forests. The lands are not economic in general or difficult to manage because of their scattered or isolated nature and “must meet the goals of a specific public interest.”
In addition to water, energy and sanitation that must be built, Federal officials may have to face groups that believe that some areas have the value of higher or conservative habitats. Mr. Rabi said that the areas that officials were generally searched for have a lower protected value, but the Land Management Office will carefully review fears.
Mr. Rabi said: “People love their public lands.” “Every acre is important for someone.”
The Land Management Office will evaluate applications from the concerned parties, such as government governments or local governments, which require the sale of specific land. The agency will then evaluate any existing use of the land, perform an environmental review and evaluation. Officials can then rent the land or sell it at a fair market value, according to the agency.
Some analyzes have found that launching more federal lands could lead to the construction of millions of new homes. The sale of about 544,000 acres of developed lands – or about 0.2 percent of the lands supervised by the Land Management Office – can perform – Modern analysis From Edward Pinto, an older colleague at the American Conservative Institute of Institutions. The analysis found that 1.5 million homes can be built over the next five decades if new cities are developed near the current urban areas.
David Garcia, the Up For Growth, a Washington -based research group that focuses on housing lack, said he believed the initiative is “tremendous potential.”
“Often when we think about federal lands, we think about national gardens, forest lands, or military bases, but there are many lands in urban areas more than I think people are aware.”
However, he said that the process of federal lands may take years due to strict procedures, and that the federal effort alone will not be sufficient to compensate for the full shortage of homes in the country. Freddy Mac, a mortgage financing giant, estimated that the nation Short about 3.7 million Housing units.
Jim Topin, president and executive director of the National Building Society, said he is optimistic that the availability of more federal development lands can boost supplies in some of the fastest growing markets in the country, such as Las Vegas and Phenix.
“Any land we can provide will help in those markets in particular, then you have the ability to continue to take out the suburbs,” said Mr. Tobin.
But Mr. Tobin said that the initiative can coincide with challenges because of a local NimbiOr in the position “not in the backyard” that hinders housing construction because some residents are fighting a new development in their neighborhoods. “People do not like changes to where they live,” he said.
Federal officials say the new national initiative can repeat the efforts that have already been made in Nevada. A 1998 Law By pushing Harry Reed, who was Senator from Nevada at the time, the Land Administration Office was allowed to sell some public lands within the state for purposes such as housing building. So far, the agency has sold about 50 acres of federal lands specifically to build about 1060 housing units at reasonable prices in the state.
But some environmental groups have already expressed concern about how the effort on public lands affects. Athan Manuel, director of the Land Protection Program at Sierra Club, said that he is open to the efforts made to build more affordable housing on some lands approaching advanced societies, but he was skeptical of the Trump administration’s efforts. He said he was concerned that new development could “trample wildlife habitats” and that the public may lose the lands used in entertainment.
“We believe this is just a background to privatize federal lands,” said Mr. Manuel. “We will assume the worst of this administration until it is proven wrong.”
Some defenders said that they were skeptical in the administration’s attempt to address housing at reasonable prices because the officials are also Deep erosion To the Ministry of Housing as part of a wider effort to reduce the federal government.
Kim Johnson, director of public policy at the National Coalition for low -income housing, said that building more housing on public lands could make a big difference for some western states. But she said she was also concerned about “destroying” the Trump administration administration, which is likely to be “destroying” the workforce in the Ministry of Housing and cutting federal resources that could help address the affluent housing crisis.
Mrs. Johnson said that she also wanted to see administration officials providing more details on how to ensure that the housing based on federal lands is affordable to all. “The question is always: How are reasonably affordable and at reasonable prices to whom?” Mrs. Johnson said.
“Any efforts to simplify administration’s operations and programs will help make Hood more successful in her mission, including addressing the affluent housing crisis in our nation,” said Cassi Lofit, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Development in Housing and Urban Development.
Some home building groups said it was optimistic about this effort. Danmirir, head of the California Building Industry Association, said that the biggest challenge facing home builders in the state was a shortage of land that was reasonable and appropriate to develop housing.
The efforts made to issue more federal lands can help stimulate housing development in California, given that the federal government has about half of the land in the state.
“It is difficult to find the ground,” he said. “If there is a land adjacent to the available urban cores, it will be important to us.”
