On Sunday, Trump Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner wrote in The Wall Street Journal about a Task Force the Trump Administration is creating to be led by Burgum and Turner to identify federal land that would be suitable for building affordable housing. The Task Force is an initial step towards fulfilling Trump’s pledge to unlock vast swaths of federal land to address America’s housing shortage by transferring or leasing the land to local governments.
It seems the effort would focus on western states—such as Nevada, Utah, California, and Arizona—where the Bureau of Land Management controls large amounts of land. Today, The Wall Street Journal published a more detailed article on what the Trump Administration is envisioning, including how the Administration would, on a “case-by-case” basis transfer or lease suitable land to public-housing authorities, nonprofits, and local governments or sell it to private developers.